First of all, my tears are very low when it comes to cartoons, especially those related to emotions. So the short film Lava before the feature film already made me cry.
I went to the premiere on Thursday. The theater was not the largest, but it was almost full. Many parents brought their children to watch. At the point where the climax is highly emotional, a child (sounds like a boy) bursts into tears, almost overshadowing the lines, and it lasts for a while, the first time I've encountered it. Of course, I was also full of tears at that time, and I thought it was funny, but I can fully understand the emotions of the owner of the cry.
This movie made me even more convinced of my previous thoughts: if you are looking forward to a movie, don’t chase after the trailers, let alone the movie reviews, and don’t even rate the best.
I inevitably saw a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes (as of 6/18) when I checked the airtime, and thankfully, I wasn't disappointed.
Speaking of which, don't hurry up and escape. It's all spoilers! ! !
Speaking of which, don't hurry up and escape. It's all spoilers! ! !
Speaking of which, don't hurry up and escape. It's all spoilers! ! !
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- Is the Pixar tradition continuing?
Animation fans and a wide range of movie fans seldom completely ignore Pixar. Up to now, the 15 animated feature films are full of excellent works, and they are basically excellent works that are suitable for all ages. But I have to admit that after the perfect Toy Story 3, Pixar's feature films always seem to be a little bit less magical, maybe everyone can walk out of the movie theater happily, but it is unlikely to put those movies on the best of the year. List. One of the key points is originality. What everyone has always admired is Pixar's novel world view and protagonist perspective, so once you fall into the whirlpool of sequels and prequels, you will lose a large part of the magic. Especially in this year's movie market, all kinds of commercial blockbusters are series of old wines in new bottles, either with a colon in the middle or at the end with a number. Original works are too rare, and the only original movies are also criticized and box office for various reasons. (I would like to state that Tomorrowland is a pretty good movie in my eyes, and although there are problems, the treatment it receives is by no means what the work itself deserves). The worldview of this Inside Out didn't disappoint me, even unexpectedly, especially after seeing the introduction of several protagonists in the trailers in theaters since last year, it's hard for me to imagine how emotions drive the storyline. .
It is not an exaggeration to say that this film is a science and education film, because the content structure is to visualize people's memory, personality, dreams, subconscious mind and mood swings and other mental states and activities, and show them to the audience in the most simple and easy-to-understand way in their daily life. The principle of his behavior is like looking in through the eyes of a person, and then a large endless paradise, giving the animators a broad subject space, and also giving the audience a lot of inspiration to recall their own life, such as recalling why that day When you are angry with your classmates or friends, why do you suddenly fall down on your hands and feet, why the happy memories of that time are a little sour in retrospect, why there is a slobber song stuck in your mind forever and can’t forget, or why you occasionally look through old photos, deja vu But there is no trace of memory. Maybe this movie will be more admired by adults or mature people, which is also the charm of Pixar movies, like Toy Story, when I was 8 years old, I laughed when I saw T-Rex being timid, and when I was 12 years old, I sympathized with Ba Si Guangnian's devotion to the role, when he is 18 years old, will make him feel more at the loss of childhood and how to adapt to the role change. In this movie, 8-year-olds will love Anger and Fear's comedy plot, 12-year-olds will feel the same way about Riley, who can't be happy at the dinner table, and people over 18 will be familiar with the dream-making scenes in it. With a smile, you will have a more appropriate understanding of the deeper meaning inside. I really like the setting of various emotions in it, maybe it is because Riley is a little boyish girl, three of her five main emotions are female characters and two are male characters, and Joy is the dominant emotion, while her Mom and Dad's emotions are all single gender. The mother's dominant emotion is Sadness, the school's cool girl's central emotion is fear, and the five emotions under the calm surface of the school bus driver are erupting in volcanoes, etc. These are all interesting details worth recalling.
Plus, who doesn’t love the finishing touches of cats and dogs?
- Those characters are growing?
In reminiscing about this movie, I realized that the protagonist of this movie is not Riley, but her emotions. Joy is the dominant character of Riley, so she wants Riley to have as many happy memories as possible every day, so she doesn't want Sadness to touch the console, thinking it's a bad mood for Riley. However, during the expedition, Joy slowly realizes that Sadness is an emotion as important as hers. It's as if we face our own growth and always hope to hide all our "negative" emotions and stay happy and positive forever, but what this movie wants to express is that a complete personality resume requires rich experience and multi-level Feel, face your emotions to deal with various situations in life. And Sadness also has her growth. At the beginning, she was very unconfident about her own existence. She was always apologizing, did not understand her role, and was always occupied by negativity. Gathering confidence and Joy collaborated back to the control center. Other emotions have also learned to cooperate, and Riley's growth is that after the collapse of the independent character island, he established a combined rich and large character island, so the scattered characters are combined into a complex personality, and the subsequent growth is In building this big island, this metaphor I really liked and was one of the many surprises throughout this piece.
Another character that has to be mentioned is Riley's imaginary friend Bing Bong. I didn't see this character in the trailer, but it turned out to be one of the big surprises and tears in the whole article. This character shows the details of many people's thoughts and memories. For example, things in memory will be decomposed or lost, and things in our imagination have entities in the depths of our thoughts. And because it was created by Riley's imagination, the incredibleness of Bing Bong's design is also reasonable, and the setting lost in long-term memory also makes the audience feel the same. The disappearance of Bing Bong is a big tear in the whole story, and the whole theater is full of sniffles.
- How big is the threat?
The film does not have a clear "villain" image in the setting of the plot, but the crisis has not stopped since the opening 20 minutes. Guided by the plot and story, we began to be like Joy, hoping that Riley could find all kinds of positives from the move, and that happy memories were not "stained" by Sadness. And since Joy and Sadness were mistakenly transported to the long-term memory area, the tension came partly from the fact that we didn't know how to get them back to the control center, and partly from Riley's five character islands collapsing one after another, losing all kinds of support, and even In the end, the whole console failed, as if we had experienced it ourselves sometimes, the whole person was numb and didn't know where to go next. In Joy and Sadness's journey, there is also a lot of urgency, such as how to wake up Riley in a dream, how to escape "Abstract thought", how to get out of the abyss of forgetting, etc., which are very eye-catching everywhere.
Of course, for me, the biggest concern is still on the character island. When the "trouble island" first collapsed, I thought to myself, what should I do, Riley will be a boring and rigid child from now on. When "Friendship Island" and "Ice Hockey Island" collapsed, I began to hesitate, not all collapse, what should Riley do. When "Family Love Island" also fell into the abyss, my worries turned into curiosity, how to recover this, and finally the movie gave me a sublimated answer, which finally let me breathe a sigh of relief, and recalled my father before. In Mom's head, everyone is sitting in front of a big console and collaborating - this is growing up.
Wouldn't it be more realistic if adults could have more emotions?
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This movie makes me have the urge to review Once a Pixar classic, but may have to take off the contact lenses. It was only when I wrote this that I remembered that my avatar was also produced by Pixar. There are still some details in Inside Out that deserve careful study. In addition to everyone's brains, there must be a lot of easter eggs in the design of Imagination Land and in the Dream Theater. You can take a good look at it later.
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