Do you ever look at someone and wonder what is going on inside their head?
This is the opening line that greets the audience, as the title card of Pixar smoothly fades out to a momentary darkness, and a female voice breaks the silence to throw the question in the audience’s transient sensory limbo. The obvious has been asked, pertaining not only to Inside Out, Pixar’s latest cinematic offering, but to the people behind Pixar, having suffered from two rather lukewarm releases, namely Brave and Monsters University. What would they do next?
Operating on a rather complex premise for the company that is known to have produced hit after hit for critics and families alike, Inside Out is both an admirable and risky creative decision, helmed by Up’s Pete Docter, and co-directed by Ronnie del Carmen: The film focuses on a young girl named Riley (voiced by Kaitlyn Dias), as she and her family moves to a new city, leaving her old house and the rest of her past life behind. The looming changes in Riley’s life soon hammer down against her sudden emotional shifts, as she is left to deal with them by herself, while oblivious to the inhabitants inside her 11-year-old mind. These inhabitants are anthromorphized representations of Riley’s emotions, as the film mainly centers on what is going on inside her head while all the external changes are happening around her.
We are soon introduced to the rest of the movie’s key players, who are Riley’s primary emotions: Joy (voiced by Amy Poehler), Sadness (Phyllis Smith), Fear (Bill Hader), and Disgust (Mindy Kaling). They all work together in the Command Center of Riley’s mind, a colorful representation of what could be her prefrontal cortex. However, from here on out, it is clear that the film has no intention of achieving anatomical correctness, or accurate depictions of magnified biological functioning (there’s 2001’s Osmosis Jones, or Magic School Bus for that) as it has built its playground on a whole reimagined universe, and soon a breathtaking one at that.
While Joy primarily leads the team in maintaining Riley’s happiness 24/7, Sadness is kept at bay. Joy believes Sadness will simply amplify Riley’s misgivings. For each day, Riley’s memories are stored in glowing orbs, and the filmmaker’s take on short-term and long-term memory is one of the little things that shows how carefully thought out the world they have built is. It only takes a few days before Sadness suddenly shows an unexplainable urge to touch and influence each memory orb, messing up what Riley is feeling altogether. In what can be Joy’s last furtive attempt to maintain homeostasis, Joy and Sadness are unexpectedly tossed out of the Command Center while they were having a tug-of-war for a memory orb. They are left lost within the limitless recesses of Riley’s mind, and it is up to them to sort out their differences and make a successful return before it becomes all too late in Riley’s fragile and erratic state.
Inside Out’s brilliance follows the same recipe that has made its critically acclaimed siblings – world-building is fully realized, and here the filmmakers have built numerous extraordinary worlds within Riley’s mind. To make sense of such abstract things as one’s dreams, levels of consciousness, and even values takes a lot of imagination. For a good hour and a half, we become kids again. We marvel at the vivid worlds Inside Out has fleshed out – of tunnels that transform your physical being, of towns made out of clouds, and even of forests that are made out of french fries. The filmmakers’ imagination has clearly run wild in this film. And conveniently so.
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It must be inevitable for a meta-movie about what feelings feel to have emotions running high and low. One must wonder how this happens, how an 11-year-old experiences such a rollercoaster of emotions from moving from one place to another. And it is precisely the point that the film raises – it succeeds in making its viewers understand what it feels to be an uncertain preteen, confused as to how make sense of changes that demands to be resisted. Inside Out handles these emotions with such care and understanding. The sense of loss and loneliness is no less harrowing for a child than it is for an adult.
Sparing spoilers, it goes without saying that the tissues are back. Michael Giacchino’s elegant yet melancholic score assures that from mere gushes of synthesized chimes, and soft touches of piano keys. There is a point in the film where Joy and Sadness meets another character, and boy does he steal the spotlight. The film has created imagined characters whose core lies in our humanity, flaws and all. Thus it is easy to become invested to these characters, no matter how odd they look, or how they are all figments in one’s mind. However, the emotions other than Joy and Sadness are left sparsely developed throughout the course of the movie. Rest assured, imagination has never felt more real.
Ultimately, Inside Out is a film that has successfully merged its audiences, no matter how old or young they are. It is genuinely funny, as the humor speaks to all ages, albeit differently. The film also wears its heart on its sleeve, and brings it to the moon and back.
Inside Out affirms that our emotions, no matter what age, are important. Each one of them must be acknowledged, and never dismissed, no matter how painful or how terribly inescapable. We remain as beings who feel, empathize, and connect. And we are left to hold and share as much pain as there is joy to feel either.
Inside Out opens in Philippine cinemas this August 19 nationwide.
