‘Inside Out’: We All Wanted to Figure This Out [Spoilers]

Warning: Spoilers for Inside Out ahead.

Inside Out gains more and more popularity with each day and is, without any doubt, a new phenomenon in the cartoon industry. It’s not only entertaining, but also deep and scientific, so no wonder that there are many curious details only adults pay attention to.

According to the Inquisitr, Inside Out explores the depth of human emotions and the way human brain works.

“Inside Out opened up with you meeting 11-year-old Riley, who is being uprooted from her home and moving to San Francisco. It seems that Joy is the president of all the other emotions, but you soon realize that each emotion has to work hand in hand with each other to make a person function. When Joy and Sadness get tossed out of ‘headquarters,’ Riley begins to decent down a dark path with only Disgust, Anger, and Fear to guide her, which is usually not a good combination.”

What is interesting – almost all psychological issues, which were explored in the cartoon, were true. Reframed memories, emotional complexity, long-term memories consolidation, core memories – all of these exist in reality, though the display of some of the phenomena was kind of modified. The only part that was completely made up was Imagination Land, according to Business Insider.

“In 2013, scientists put subjects inside an MRI scanner to see which parts of their brains lit up during imagination. Several key structures seemed to be involved, but ultimately the research hit the same dead end that a lot of imagination research hits.”

“We just don’t know how we do it.”

“Perhaps that is the biggest complaint one can lob at the movie’s treatment of imagination. Psychology doesn’t know how imagination works well enough to depict it so fantastically.”

The question that makes many people who saw the cartoon wonder is why parents of the main characters have emotions of the appropriate gender, and Riley has emotions of different gender. The Cinemablend reports that it was not just an accident.

“Discussing the genders of the emotions in both the mind of Riley and her parents, I explained how I interpreted it as people maturing into more gender-specific individuals, and the filmmaker explained that Lassetter had similar thoughts on the matter.”

“I remember, we talked to John and he said, ‘Well, I thought you did it because, as adults, we become more kind of set in our ways. As a kid, you can… anywhere is possible.'”

Inside Out is one of not so many cartoons that can grant something to anyone who watches it mindfully.

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