Movie review: Inside Out

Had an opportunity to take a break from the bizarre come-go lifestyle that I've been living lately. Oh gosh, such exhausting period. Anyways, I finally got the chance to watch Inside Out, after hearing rave reviews proliferating all over. Interesting and quite a refreshing breather from the usual cliche animations, interesting, I approve of it ahaha. 

Disclaimer: Spoiler alert, just a heads up! 

Revolving around the five emotions namely: joy, sadness, disgust, anger, fear, this movie introduces us to the workings of the internal mind, how different emotions dominate at different points of our lives, how our actions are constructed by the emotions that influence us, be it momentarily or permanently, and how distinctively, our memories constitute emotions of a range. The movie alternates between two storylines, both dependent on each other and equally important. Inside Riley's mind, we see how the different emotions interact, how they draw conclusion on actions based on their distinctive personalities of each emotion. Rather memorable was a scene of her at dinner, after her first rather crappy day at her new school where she gave a feeble introduction that escalated into tears with her reminiscing her good o days at Minnesota, she gave a rather curt reply when her mom inquired about her day, which led to her mom further probing into this issue. Gosh please don't mind my atrocious disgusting language. I needa get the hang of writing now now now fml, feeling so rusty atm. Anws it's quite a good insight into Inside Out, how different perspectives of the same issue result in different reactions, compare Riley's to her mom and dad's. Rather cute movie, oh yes, I've just said it and I'm gonna reiterate again oh wellz. 

The story began with introductions to the workings of the headquarters, how we have long-term memories, short-term and the core memories, that constitutes our character and personality, and in this case, powers the five different worlds of Riley's character: family, integrity, friendship, ice-hockey and goof-ball land. The story took off later, with how Riley struggled to adjust to her new life in San Francisco, how she had to start all over again, building new friendships, relations, a whole new way of life. This was coupled with how internally, Joy and Sadness encountered a little predicament and was sucked off to the arena of long term memories, where they struggled to make their journey back to the HQ. However, such journey is no small feat, evidently. The two realms intertwined, as how external events caused Riley's principles and ideals to sway, how slowly, individually, the five different worlds gradually collapsed, which hindered the return journey of Joy and Sadness. Throughout the course of the movie, we were also introduced to the other areas of the brain: we have imagination land, abstract thinking land, the memory dump, where things are laid forgotten and desolated, and a absolutely memorable one: dreamland, where they actually create productions for the dream of the night. Throughout this invigorating journey, I was reminded of youth again, how we have grown so far from the days of our fetal existence, how we have grown up :') Idk, the notion of growing up, with memories spread over so many years, how we were once all young and innocent, it just brings some impinging stinging spurts of wetness to your eyes, dont cha?  Aside from the exploration of emotions,  Inside Out enlightens us about the importance of family, totally family movie material :')  There's always sth magical about disney, and this is no exception. In fact, I'm pretty sure  I'm gonna rewatch Inside Out sometime again in the future. I'm just really fascinated and in awe of the their concept of inside out, refreshing. And did I mention the cute credits too? Hmm how our teachers think of us huh? 

Interesting insight to our emotions, and well, quite a cute movie tbh, rather amusing how the different emotions interact with each other, all resulting in the different actions of Riley. I won't agree entirely, the workings of this movie, how the different memories are necessarily intertwined with the emotions evoked at that point of time, sometimes emotions may not necessarily be involved?  Or perhaps it's just a fleeting moment of mine where I'm desensitized to emotions of all sorts, instead choosing to live by stoically and placidly hahaha. terribly sorry for this chunk of disoriented, incoherent writing, just like my life at the moment. Oh damn, fuck this. 

And yes, as much as I find the idea of joy very attractive, she's perpetually the ideal Utopian state of the mind, you know, how we are constantly buffered with the idea of positivity, positive vibes, positive mindset, blah blah, I still find myself relating to sadness most, even though it was a character of such great amount of detest at first. Seriously, I found her absolutely a nuisance, yet it was her that stole the show. I did mention about the disclaimer yo. Maybe its the notion that sadness is simply an underlying emotion of mine, there's akways a place for sadness huh? No matter what the occasion, sadness always have this capability of pervading every scenario huh? Oh gosh, this has slowly escalated into a bizarre emo post? Threshold has its place here, on this platform, so yup, I shan't get far about such ideas. Oh wait, anonymity provides an extra ledge of space here, doesn't it?  Anyways, personally, aside from constant underlying melancholy, disgust and anger pretty much dominate things here. Bleh. Anyways I had a great day yesterday, pleasant company too. It's been so long since I had the slightest taste of liberation, perhaps not really, since I'lll countlessly detracted from my goals and plans, mostly arising from redundant and numbed, aimless thinking. Liberation, perhaps I've lost how it really feels like. 

Oh gosh, see, feel the presence of sadness, she's smirking at you. Disgust beside her, totally.