RELOS, JUDY ANN A.

BSA-II

General Psychology
M/ W/ F 11:00-12:00

INSIDE OUT
A Movie Analysis
SUMMARY:
There was a couple who had a child named Riley. Rileys feelings where shown by emotions; joy,
sadness, disgust, fear and anger. Riley was a happy, friendly, lovable person. She was a player of hockey
in their town. But then her parents decided to move on to San Francisco. Rileys feel sadness for she will
be leaving Minnesota and her best friend. Moving to San Francisco, Riley start to fell indifferently. She
expected a nice house but then it was not. Sadness drive Rileys emotion. But Joy tries to make Riley
happy. She think of playing hockey inside the house with Rileys parents, and she became happy. The core
memory built Rileys personality. But then Sadness keeps touching and tainting core memory which she
cant explain or even control it. This frustrates Joy, who tries to enclosed Sadness in a circle of sadness,
but it doesnt work because Sadness drive Rileys to feel sad during her class, that creates a sad core
memory. But Joy tries to dispose it and eject it, but Sadness tries to stop her. Both of them where
accidentally ejected into depths of Rileys mind, leaving Disgust, Fear, and Anger in the head quarters.
While Joy and Sadness are both in depths of Rileys mind, Disgust, Fear, and Anger pretend to be Joy. But
it doesnt work well for them, that causes Rileys personality into destruction. Finding a way out, Joy meet
Bing Bong, the imaginary friend of Riley when she was a kid. Joy asked for help to Bing Bong for her and
Sadness to get back to the head quarters. Bing Bong tell them about a shortcut which they goes through,
to get to the train but then they miss it. Thats why they went to the Imaginary Land for them to catch
another train. And they did, but the train suddenly stops because Rileys went to sleep. So they decided to
wake up Riley in making a bad dream, but then they were stopped by the other character thing in Rileys
mind that act as a police. Bing Bong was captured. Joy and Sadness tries to rescue Bing Bong. And they
did. They escaped because of the help of the clown. But then Joy and Bing Bong fall into the deep, deep
part of Rileys mind where those forgotten memories goes through. But then Joy got an idea for them to up
using Bing Bongs cart. They sang and the magic cart started to flew, but way up the cart fall. They tried
again but it falls again. And in the last try, Bing Bong scarified for Joy to finally escape it. Way back to
Rileys life she is now going to leave her parents and go along alone to Minnesota. Moving quickly Joy,
planed to create many imaginary boyfriend of Riley and put them together for them to make a way back to
the head quarters. In head quarters Joy realizes that it is Sadness that have been witnessed Riley all the
time. So she let Sadness drive Rileys emotion. Then suddenly Riley realizes that what she was doing is
wrong. At home she tells her parents what she felt about. And they live happily once again.

SIGNIFICANCE:
The movie showed the importance of emotions in our life. Because emotions are the one who built
as a person. We should possess it for the reason that it helps us to be more competitive as a person. It also
showed as the importance that our parents should not try to pressure their kids. They should allow
themselves to listen to their kids so that their little misunderstanding would be fixed. It is important for us to
allow our negative emotions in life and show it to everyone and not hide it. It also showed that our actions
and decisions in life are influenced by our own emotions. And also it is important that we should try to
embrace all of our emotions because it helps us to communicate our own personality. It makes our life
more colorful. But also we should remember that our even though are emotions are influenced by our own
actions we still have the authority to control it and be freed to make our own decisions in life.
REACTION:
The movie was great. What I love most is that the movie was a cartoon type. Because in a cartoon
movie, everything becomes possible. I love how the movie emphasizes the emotions in our daily life. Like
Riley, I also encounter these kinds of emotions. It showed the role of emotions in portraying human
sensible story. It captured my attention, realizing how really our emotions greatly affect our life. It is really a
true to life story, I can say because what Riley felt in this movie, was those emotions I felt in my life.
Expressing oneself emotions make as a person. The emotions, in this movie, are beautifully externalized.
Emotions act independently and co-dependently with other emotions. Emotions are triggered/ activated due
to a major change in ones life. The interactions between emotions are utterly amusing and amazingly
constructed. The screen players of Inside Out have done a great job in the characterization of the core
emotions. I really love it.
LESSON:
I learned that emotions built as a person. Even though there are negative emotions like anger,
fear, disgust and sadness it also plays an important role in making as a whole person. For example, fear
helps us to be safe in making decisions in life. Also it shows me that letting go is a part of growing up, it tells
us that moving on will give us opportunities in life. We should also be open to our parents and tell them
what and how we feel as soon as possible. Never be ashamed to tell them. And I learned that if we will
encounter a sad person we should not try to fix it but instead we should just support them in acknowledging
and validating their feelings. Because if there is no sadness in life how can we experience joy. And what
happened through the life story of Riley we should always remember that even things start to fall there is an
opportunity for new beginnings. In my 19 years of existence I can say that I always keep in my mind that in
every day passed I should always possessed joy, being happy all the time. Because I want to live the best
life I always wanted to be. And the movie tells us, that imagination is also a good thing that we should
practice in ourselves. But for me maybe the most important lesson that I learned is we should allow other
emotions in our life for us be who we are.