Film Analysis Of Inside Out

In The Achievement Habit: Stop Wishing, Start Doing, and Take Command Of Your Life, Bernard Roth, professor of engineering at Stanford University states, “Because we are writing our own life stories in the first person, we need to realize that we give ourselves and all the other characters their meaning” (216). With this being said, people do have a meaning in other people’s lives, but this does not mean that they all have a positive or negative effect on it. In the film Inside Out, directed by Pete Docter, Riley is an eleven-year-old girl who has the perfect life in Minnesota. She is on a hockey team, has a best friend named Meg, and lives with her mother and father. Riley has always remained optimistic throughout her life. Suddenly, Riley’s family packs up and moves to San Francisco. During this transition, Riley deals with all of her emotions. Throughout this film, Riley’s emotions show how she reacts to particular situations. Even though some people may argue that emotions only impact someone negatively, Inside Out successfully proves that not every emotion is bad to experience, because emotions give people a way to express how they feel,

Not every emotion is meant to hurt someone mentally, but if people can accept this and use it to their advantage, it will give them a way to express how they feel, allow them to understand why they feel this way, and it will permit them to find a solution to overcome how they feel. If people continue to hold back their emotions, this can cause many issues and may even make the mind numb towards future issues to where no solution can be formed for that individual. When people can express their feelings, especially when it is towards something awful, they can accurately convey their emotions. Inside Out successfully proves that not every emotion will impact someone