A little less story, a little more tears

Daphney 2022-04-23 07:01:14

"Inside Out" is the most popular film in the animation film industry this year, especially since it was released in North America, it has created a good picture of a double harvest at the box office. Naturally, it took us a few months to see the true face of Mount Lushan. Chinese fans are full of expectations. Perhaps it is precisely because the expectations were raised too high that after a long-awaited glimpse of Fang Rong, he was a little disappointed with the actual performance of the film.
"Inside Out" takes the path of opening brain holes, classifying the human brain into 5 anthropomorphic emotions, the whole story is divided into two lines, one is joy's slight rejection of saddness at first, and inadvertently two The person was transported out of the brain headquarters by the suction catheter, and then the two worked together to exert their respective expertise and returned to the brain headquarters; the other was due to the lack of joy, the commander-in-chief, and the remaining three emotional operations destroyed the master's Personality story. So in fact, the storyline of this film can be said to be relatively simple, even thin, which can be seen from the length of the film, which makes the film have several problems in the story script.
First of all, although the owner of the film has opened his brain hole, it is suspected that the brain hole presented in the film is also a little too open. Because, after all, the brain is the most complex and sophisticated part of the human body, it is a bit too simplistic and rude to simply attribute the action motives of the protagonists of the film to five emotions. Throughout the film, there are also three brain operating agencies, one is the dream factory, the other is the fear hole, and the other is the thought train, especially the last thought train. Shouldn't it be one of the key elements that dominate the action of the main body. In fact, if a complex part of the human body like the brain is truly anthropomorphic as in the film, it should be like a comprehensive university, with various institutions and co-managers of various kinds. matter. In the film, joy and saddness mainly experience only two places, one is the long-term memory warehouse, and the other is the memory garbage pit. When they cooperated to return to the brain headquarters, the audience felt that the structure of this little girl's brain is really Simple enough.
The second is overly provocative. In fact, compared to the main opening of the film, what occupies more space in the film is probably the sensational part that is deliberately created. Before watching this movie, I always thought it was a lively and cheerful movie, but in the end, the movie used a lot of space to create tears, especially the part where the popsicle and the little girl ran away from home, and the final destination was on the into the tears of the audience. Of course, the actual sensational effect of the film is still very effective, and it will make people's nose sour more or less, but after the sourness, it can't help but make people feel a little disgusted-is it necessary to carry out such a deliberately large-scale sensationalism? It can be said that "Inside Out" is probably the most sensational in Pixar's history.
In fact, in 2012, there was an animated movie "Invincible Destruction King" from Disney's same brain-opening series. Although "Invincible Destruction King" also has some logical problems, the overall look and feel is significantly better than "Inside Out". . Especially in the tone of the final story, what drives the storyline in "Invincible Destruction King" is personal honor and friendship, while in "Inside Out", it's just how to get back to the headquarter, and there is no unity. A clear emotional tone makes the whole story relatively thin from the ground up. In addition, in terms of personal aesthetics, I have always felt that the characters of the 5 protagonists of this film are not very good-looking since the initial promotion of this film, and after watching the film, I am more curious why joy's hair is blue instead of yellow.
Of course, as an animated film under the control of Pixar, "Inside Out" is still a good-looking animated film, worthy of everyone's appreciation in the theater. But this film only stays at the point of good-looking, and there is still a gap between some animations produced by Disney in recent years, let alone compared with such gods as "Frozen".

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Extended Reading

Inside Out quotes

  • Anger: This is ridiculous! We can't even get a good night's sleep anymore. Time to take action!

    [Anger grabs an idea bulb from the shelf]

    Anger: Stupid Mom and Dad. If they hadn't moved us, none of this would have happened. Who's with me?

    [Anger gestures the idea to Fear]

    Fear: Um... mmmmmmmmm... Nnnnnnnn... no.

    [Anger gestures the idea to Disgust]

    Disgust: ...Yeah, okay. Let's do it.

    [Anger puts the idea bulb into the console. Outside, Riley gets the idea and opens up her laptop]

    Anger: She took it. There is no turning back.

    Disgust: So... how are we going to get to Minnesota from here?

    Anger: Well, why don't we go down to the elephant lot and rent an elephant?

    Fear: Hey! That sounds nice!

    Anger: WE'RE TAKING THE BUS, NITWIT!

    [Riley is looking up bus information on the San Francisco Greyhound Bus website]

    Anger: There is a bus leaving tomorrow. Perfect!

    Disgust: A ticket costs money. How do we get money?

    Anger: Mom's purse.

    [Disgust gasps in horror]

    Disgust: You wouldn't!

    Anger: Oh, but I would. Where was it we saw it last?

    [Anger recalls a memory of where the purse was. However, the memory of the Triple Dent Gum commercial comes up and its annoying song begins to play. Anger immediately becomes annoyed and slams on the console, startling Fear]

    Anger: NO!

  • [as Riley is about to become permanently depressed, Joy and Sadness arrive back at Headquarters by flinging themselves into the window. They manage to hold on for dear life]

    Disgust: It's Joy!

    [Anger runs off to grab a chair]

    Anger: Stand back!

    [Anger violently throws the chair at the window, to no avail]

    Disgust: That worked.

    [Anger begins to get irritated and his head begins to smoulder]

    Anger: Well, what would you do if you're so smart?

    [Disgust smiles, realizing the opportunity]

    Disgust: I'd tell you, but you're too dumb to understand.

    Anger: WHAT?

    Disgust: Of course your tiny brain is confused. Guess I'LL just have to dumb it down to your level!

    [as Anger's head begins to smoulder even more, he looks at Disgust in complete rage]

    Disgust: Sorry I don't speak moron as well as you, but lemme try! Duuuuuhhhhhh!

    [Anger begins to scream in rage as flames erupt from the top of his head]

    Anger: ARRRRRRRRRRHHHHHHHHHHH!

    [Disgust flips on a visor helmet and holds Anger against the window. The flames shooting out of the top of his head break the window. Fear and Disgust help Joy and Sadness inside]