ah that's part 2 of my notes
on the movie Vice Versa
these are on the spot notes
that i jotted down very quickly
so bear with it
if some parts are not enough meaningful to you
to me they are:) !
and if you need to read the part 1
http://petals1000uk.blogspot.fr/2015/11/inside-out-movie-part-1.html
Plot
A girl named Riley is born in
Minnesota,
and within her mind, five personifications of her basic emotions — Joy,
Sadness, Fear, Disgust and Anger — come to life. The emotions live in
Headquarters, Riley's
conscious mind,
where they influence Riley's actions and memories via a control
console. Her new memories are housed in colored orbs, which are sent
into long-term memory at the end of every waking period. The most
important memories, known as "core" memories, are housed in a hub in
Headquarters and power five "islands", each of which reflects a
different aspect of Riley's personality. Joy does everything in her
power to keep Riley in a happy state, but since she and the other
emotions do not understand Sadness's purpose, they try to keep her from
controlling the console.
When Riley is 11 years old, her family moves to
San Francisco
after her father gets a new job. However, their new home is lifeless,
and their belongings are still in a moving van that ends up getting lost
in
Texas.
Joy becomes concerned when Sadness begins touching happy memories,
causing them to turn sad, so she tries to keep Sadness isolated.
However, on Riley's first day at her new school, Sadness accidentally
causes Riley to cry in front of her class, creating a sad core memory.
Joy attempts to dispose of the new core memory before it reaches the
central hub, but she accidentally knocks the other core memories loose
in her struggle with Sadness, shutting down the personality islands and
making them unstable. As Joy scrambles around to collect the core
memories, she, Sadness, and the core memories are sucked out of
Headquarters through the memory tube leading to the rest of Riley's
mind. They end up in the labyrinthine storage area of Riley's
long-term memories and set out to return to Headquarters.
Anger, Disgust, and Fear attempt to maintain Riley's emotional state
in Joy's absence, but inadvertently distance Riley from her parents,
friends, and hobbies, resulting in her personality islands slowly
crumbling and falling into the Memory Dump, an abyss where fading
memories are disposed and forgotten. Anger inserts an idea to
run away
to Minnesota into the control console, believing they can produce new
happy core memories there. Meanwhile, Joy and Sadness find Bing Bong,
Riley's childhood
imaginary friend, who is desperate to reconnect with her. He tells them they can get to Headquarters by riding the
train of thought.
After exploring different areas of Riley's mind, the three eventually
catch the train, but it derails when another personality island falls.
As Riley prepares to board a bus bound for Minnesota, Joy attempts to use a "
recall tube"
to return to Headquarters, abandoning Sadness out of fear that her
touch would change the happy core memories into sad ones if they travel
in the tube together; however, the last personality island falls and
breaks the tube, sending Joy into the Memory Dump along with Bing Bong.
While despairingly looking through old memories, Joy discovers a sad
memory in Riley's life that becomes happy when her parents and friends
come to comfort her over losing a hockey game, causing her to realize
Sadness's true importance: alerting others when Riley needs help or
comforting.
Joy and Bing Bong try to use Bing Bong's discarded wagon rocket to
get out of the Memory Dump, but after several failed attempts, Bing Bong
realizes their combined weight is too much and jumps out, allowing Joy
to escape. Bing Bong then fades away, finally forgotten. Joy uses
various tools from Imagination Land to propel herself and an unwilling
Sadness to Headquarters, where they find that Anger's idea has disabled
the control console, rendering Riley numb and
apathetic.
At Joy's encouragement, Sadness takes control of the console and
successfully removes the idea, reactivating the console and prompting
Riley to return home.
As Sadness reinstalls the core memories and takes control of the
console, Riley arrives home and breaks down in tears, confessing to her
parents that she misses her old life and that she cannot keep pretending
to be happy all the time. As her parents comfort and reassure her, Joy
and Sadness work together to create a new, amalgamated core memory,
which creates a much larger personality island. A year later, Riley has
turned 12 and adapted to her new home, and all her emotions now work
together to help her lead a content, more emotionally complex life.
source :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside_Out_%282015_film%29
When her parents see her
they exclaimed
"you are so Beautiful, so FULL of Joy"
we tend to take it as an expression
but no
literally speaking
Riley's Face is so FULL of Joy Inside of her
that it reflects on her Face
and makes her so beautiful and joyful
at her turn
and her joy beams on her parents face
and this very feedback
is made in balls of light
that Joy receive in return
inside
so that Joy increases even more..
Inside she said to Riley
"it"ll be the only two of us"
meaning Riley the manifested side of her
and She the Joy
which occupies the WHOLE space inside Riley
as her parents said
"you are so FULL of Joy"
this is why babies beam
this is why innocence beams
this is why there is light
because there is ONLY Light
only when it becomes to be shaded
by emotions other than joy
that light looses space...
then,
on that fateful day
Riley had to move out
from the countryside
to the big city
her emotions are as such :
Fear gives her feeling of security
Tastes helps her to be physical and socially on top
Angry is based on her sense of imparting justice and unbiased opinion
sadness has no known use..
Joy ensures herself that Riley's memories be joyous
and she cherishes them
those joyful souvenirs beaming with light
and other balls of light
are tainted by their own colors
those colors like a rainbow
like the sweater she is wearing
full of rainbow colors
when she arrives in SF
from Minnesota
metaphorically
she is leaving countryside
nature
and joy
to a city
where you only see grey buildings
depressive new home
and even more sadness butts in with time...
personality of Riley
has five isles
hocket, funny moods, friendship, honesty
family
island of personality
makes her so
in this new city and life
Joy tries to patches Riley's Life
and mend it like a patchwork really
but at some point
she got aspired with Sadness
and fell out of her command center
the "Conscious Mind"
so we see the Fall from Heaven
of Joy
which used to be Filling up this Space along
with Her Light
and started to share it with other emotions
and then got ejected out of it
due to Sadness...
Sadness is sad (lol)
'cause she wants to understand life
hence her glasses
and book reading
to be able to face it
Joy wants to feel it
even if in souvenirs she speaks of rain
everything is opportunity
for her to feel joyous
while for Sadness
is about dirt and cold
but sometimes the human being can't follow
there are synaptic gaps
which he can't compensate
unless Sadness helps
him to express them
so when Joy asked her
how you helped the imaginary friends to feel better
she said i just listened
and understood him
he got the outlet to relieve himself
as he needed to express
what was blocking his emotions
to flow freely
so Sadness provides the Space
for the emotions to be released
and then
Joy see by the end
that the joyous souvenir
that Riley's had
like when she lost her hockey game
existed only
because Sadness
allowed her to be sad
so that Joy may come
and give her Joy
how could Joy enters in the game
when there is no room for her?
as we saw all along the movie
for she kept failing,
falling
missing the train
and could never touched Riley's conscious mind
she could ONLY
once Sadness got the RIGHT
to let her BE
to let her express her sadness
then only then
Joy could use circusmtances around
like her friends and families
to cheer her up
see?
this is why
is important
for you to be yourself
don't try to be perfect
but try to express your emotions
be it sadness or anger
so that Joy can then have the space
to transform the negative to the positive
back to the movie,
so, when suddenly power goes down the drain
Joy arrives in long term memory
she sees her islands going off
so no more personality
no more joy
she can see a bridge
as a fine horizontal line
to help her join the vertical tower of light
of consciousness
which is by the way getting darker
as much as her absence is lasting
once broken
she used imagination power
to create a bridge and bridge the gap
from the underworld of her subconsciousness
to the outer word of her consciousness
in the meanwhile
emotions try to patch work
as joy used to do
but she had a real power
the power to love life
to do it
and help emotions to reach a balance
but without joy they can't imitate joy
even if sport for Riley
is a given
now it works not
gives Riley no joy
as long as Joy was there
then she used to love her sport
so Joy is a natural state
that gives that joyful state
and emotions
canNOT imitate and lead to joy
however hard we try to imitate
lol i love how her dad
got absent minded
zapping in his consciousness
on her football match screen
and zapping back on her wife
while his emotions of fear goes wild
has she seen me?
what have i done wrong?
(trash bin?out? etc.)
same we see by the end of movie
the cool girl at school
innerly afraid
have they seen me?
that i don't know what i am talking about?
and Taste saying don't worry
mascara covered it up lol
so people rely on apparences
while harboring inner fears
and being thus unable to live life
and feel joyous
because always one emotion
is becoming overloading
and they choke
same with mom
she zapped on her brazilian lover
in her mind
when she got disappointed by her husband
so people use imagination
to make life more bearable
unless
they make room for sadness
not till it overloads you as other emotions
but to create that space to hear your emotions
so that you let go
and let joy shine as before
Joy lost way back to consciousness
so she needs guidance through Sadness
who has theoric knowledge
but feels too heavy to implement it
so that Joy needs to drag her along
Joy drags Sadness like a Weight
so heavy it is for her
i love the imaginary friends
or the abstract department
3D to 2D
sadness twice was close to bring
joy to the right track
but joy went to ask others
because she was not really appealed by
sadness attitude which is too depressive
so she thoughts her advice worths two cents only
till she realised how she helped
imaginary friends
and how her warning about abstract world
were right
the imaginary friend
i like its symbol in his body:
elephant nose represents the innocence
cat purring like attitude
and rainbow color fuel for the transport
for his rocket
dolphin has fine intellect to dvp imagination
and the lovely cotton candy is sweet
so the sweet innocence
emotions can't resign
they wants to find solution
by digging into the past
so, only Joy can know how to be present
and enjoy the present life
i love how joy beam in night
shows that metaphor
joy is never affected by darkness
hence darkenss is illusion indeed
yea i love colored balls of souvenir that emotions
try to use to help her play good hockey
like when u insert a CD in a matrix to teach you how to do it
but joy philosophy is incomplete without sadness
she think she can wake her up with funny hilarious dreams
but trauma is best
as Sadness suggested
we see that subsconscious
harvest the troublesome elements
like hidden fears of childhood
joy only wants Riley to enjoy life
so far she thoughts sadness is sad
but saw that thanks to her sadness
she had this moment of cheering up by her parents
and this moment of joy by her friends cheering her up
and to comfort her
then joy let sadness touch the balls of souvenir
and she saw herself falling like for hocket (sad element)
and her dad comforting (joyful one)
vs
when you compare
when she decided to quit hocket
and had by then not been allowed to express sadness
so she could not get comforted by her parents..
that sadness
creates some breaking point/silence
to hear the pain
and then a ball with duality
of blue light and golden light arrived
and islands start rebuilding this time with more
varied colors
rainbow like one
as now
finally a mix is allowed ..
so if no outlet for sadness
emotions no more access to feeling
and she ended up leaving her home
