Maria Donna Maharani (00000022435)

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Film Review (Scene II)

Title : Inside Out

Cast : Amy Poehler as Joy

Mandy Kaling as Disgust

Phylis Smith as Sadness

Bill Hader as Fear

Lewis Black as Anger

Diane Lane as Mom

Kyle MacLachlan as Dad

Kaitlyn Dias as Riley

Richard Kind as Bing Bong

Flea as Mind Worker Cop Jake

Director : Pete Docter (director)

Ronnie Del Carmen (co-director)

Synopsis :

After the incident of Joy and Sadness getting sucked up to the area of long-term

memory, Anger, Fear, and Disgust try to work their mind off to maintain Riley’s happiness.

However, the plan did not go so well. The night comes, and Riley’s having dinner with her

parents. Riley started acting weird and the team in the Headquarters think because Joy is not

there. Whenever Riley’s parents asked her something, she responded very unlike her. Soon,
Riley’s starting to distance from her parents, friends, hobbies, and eventually losing her

personalities. One by one, the islands that makes up Riley’s personalities crumble and fall into

the Memory Dump, a place where the memories are forgotten.

While exploring the long-term memory area, Joy and Sadness bumped into Bing Bong

whom is Riley’s childhood imaginary friend. Bing Bong suggested all of them to take the train

of thought back to Headquarter. En route to the train station, Bing Bong has to witness his

rainbow wagon rocket he used to ride with Riley, being thrown into the memory dumb joining

the rest of childish artefacts.

Review/critique :

“Inside Out” is a creation made by Pete Docter and Ronnie Del Carmen at the year of

2015. The film was taken at the Pixar Animation Studios which also releases other 20 featured

films under the Walt Disney Pictures banner such as the Toy Story series, Coco, Cars, Finding

Nemo, Ratatouille, and etc which explains the animation, kids, and family genre subsequently.

The first scene starts with the birth of Riley Anderson, whom was born in Minnesota.

The plot shows how our daily life are controlled by emotions inside our head consisting of

Anger, Disgust, Fear, Joy, and Sadness. The film also compares our emotions to actual humans

which is truly an essential, special, and never-seen-before idea compressed into one. As time

passes so as Riley’s age, we are able to see the effects and linkage between the conflict on one

side onto the other. Not only it provides us with laughter and joy but yet explains emotional

health in an interesting and appealing way for kids and adults who watches the movies. As for

the visuals, graphic, and animations were stunningly finished, the story flows spectacularly

with synchronizing each dialogue as if it were match-made-in-heaven and yet finishes with

great execution. The voice cast was stupendous especially for Phyllis Smith, Amy Poehler,

Richard Kind, Bill Hader, Lewis Black, and Mindy Kaling.

 Although “Inside Out” consist of many genres but director is still missing bits and

pieces of scenes and explanation describing each of the genres. This film have mastered the

animation and comedy genre, but as for the adventure genre was considered somehow childish

and unfinished. Hence, viewers may lack consideration that the directors and cast are taking

them along a journey to Riley’s mind and aspects of adventurous consisted in this film. The

idea of introducing mental health not only to adults but also younger viewers might be a

breakthrough, but still Disney and Pixar lacks further discussion towards this idea.

But overall experience, “Inside Out” generates a wonderful masterpiece created by

Pixar and Disney.

Conclusion :

Inside Out suggests what most psychotherapists preach: the most important and all-

encompassing element of emotional control is truth. Repressing negative memories or

pretending sadness doesn’t exist causes damage to core memories. Denial of sadness only leads

to a life of fear and anxiety wherein a person fails to believe they have the ability to cope with

grief, which is damaging to the personality as a whole.

Then when reflected on, the events are not re-lived, they are all seen more objectively

which changes them with the change in perspective. The task is to get the person to believe in

themselves again. They can handle it. They may need help knowing how to do it because there

was a breakdown of basic needs somehow but inside are the resources for growth. They just

need to be taught.”
Vocabulary:
- Kibosh :
o Put an end to or bring an end to
o Synonym : check, stop, halt,
- Collapses
o Fall down or in; give way
o Synonyms : settle, give, subside, fall in
- Thoroughly
o In thorough manner / very much
o Synonyms : completely, totally, entirely
- Grievances
o A real or imagined wrong or other cause for complaint/protest, especially unfair
treatment
o Synonyms : injustice, offense, unfairness
- Remedies
o A medicine or treatment for a disease or injury
o Synonyms : treatment, cure, medicine
- Withering
o Intended to make someone feel mortified or humiliated
o Synonyms : scornful, mocking, contemptuous
- Scowls
o An angry or bad-tempered expression
o Synonyms : frown, glower, glare
- Audible
o Able to be heard
o Synonyms : perceptible, recognizable, detectable
- Delegates
o A person sent or authorized to represent others
o Synonyms : agent, representative, envoy
- Frantically
o In a distraught way owing to fear, anxiety or other emotion