Film Theory: The Inside Out 2 Emotions Are All WRONG!

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Inside Out 2 was such a beautiful movie, wasn't it, loyal Theorist? And after a few hits and misses, we're happy that Pixar is back on track with a success. So you just knew that we couldn't let this movie slide. Today we're exploring Riley's psychological state to see what emotions would _really_ be in control of her. Will anxiety, ennui, joy, and anger stick around? Or could other emotions take control? Strap in for one emotional roller coaster!
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[voicekey]

Sneaking MatPat as sadness in the blue memory ball is crazy 💀

[whirl]

Suprise: existing
Pixar:We can't have that happen

[pedrostormrage]

14:19 "Grief is just love left unexpressed" Or as Queen Elizabeth II used to say, "grief is the price we pay for love".

[wrennow]

PUTTING THE LAST AIRBENDER MOVIE AS THE ANGRY MEMORY WAS A GENIUS TOUCH OMG

[Goatman_Gamer]

“Or the death of her parents”

Pixar Executives: WRITE THAT DOWN! WRITE THAT DOWN!

[DarkenedSun]

Honestly, I felt like Disgust was doing the job of "Love" in the second movie. Yes, there's the funny moments with the action character and her knowing Riley's crushes, but I thought it made sense with how she's described in the movies. She knows what Riley hates, dislikes, and is disgusted by. So of course she'd know the opposite; what Riley enjoys, likes, and loves.

I think it'd be interesting for future movies if Disgust had to "switch jobs" or learn to handle more work, especially as Riley gets older and wants to have a more mature, adult relationship with someone.

[Midrealm_DM]

15:00 - this is exactly what I was thinking before you reached this point.
It also would explain why the parents also seemed to only have a few emotions in their heads, as each of these is simply the head of their own emotional hierarchy.

[NinoPega]

Fear and Anxiety are TOTALLY two diffrent emotions.

You can fear the scary bear that's standing right in front of you.
But when you fear a bear that *might* be somewhere, maybe you're in a big city but there's always a chance... that's anxiety.

[speakeroftruth]

Mario wasn’t having a Panic attack he was just trying to recover from being launched through a freakin building

[archtansterpg]

Minor correction: from what I've heard, the emotions don't so much pilot Riley as they do just dictate how she's feeling at any given moment (which, go figure, is the purpose of emotions). Riley still retains her agency independent of them, and it's been shown her mind can accept or reject any of the idea lightbulbs the emotions give.

Also at one point in developing the first movie, they did consider Surprise as an emotion but figured that it was too close to Fear, so they just kinda merged those ideas into Fear.

[AM]

The anxiety scene in inside out 2 was my favorite scene, mainly because it was the most relatable to me, i have severe anxiety. So seeing a film showing things that i relate to is nice to see. It can take me 20 minutes to stop an anxiety attack. I am a male teenager who has a mom that also has severe anxiety (thats where i get it from)

[kingpedero]

I think a good plot of inside out 3 would be that Riley fall in love with a guy and at the end of the movie she broke up, so we could see new emotions like Love, compassion and depression. (Compassion could show up because one of her friend broke up and they end up in the same situation)

[phoenixsystem]

Something I noticed is that in the movie the adults are also controlled by just the "big 5", and at the end Riley's mom's anxiety is shown for a moment and her sadness says "Welcome back, Anxiety", which heavily implies that the emotions we met in Inside Out 2 are not permanent and adults actually get more numb again, and I do wonder if that is something we see in real life.

[lasercraft]

9:43 As someone who struggles with Anxiety... YES. ABSOLUTELY. Inside Out 2 pretty much portrayed Anxiety _perfectly._

[Jam_ESPOIR]

Disney:"hmmm, what if we made a good film and... We have a panic atack in it"
Pixar:"ok..."

[emilyyang]

“Grief is just love preserving” from Disney themselves too

[yodarchernia]

my biggest problem with Inside Out 2 is they are expecting us to believe that up until 13 years old Riely has never felt boredom. Like have they ever been with a kid on a long ride?

[RILDIGITAL]

It's fascinating how much depth of psychology is carefully woven into Inside Out. The prospect of a more complex emotional structure in the forthcoming sequels truly underlines the inherent complexity of human emotions.

[queen_kat]

What would be really cool is if like he said there was a hierarchy, but instead of them all being in Riley’s mind, the lower level emotions are INSIDE the highest level emotions mind! So let’s say Riley is sad because her friends leave her for someone ‘better’ and then sadness is like “I’ll take the wheel from here” and inside sadness’ mind, resentment or something else takes the wheel of sadness. That seems like a really good way to make the franchise even better, and stay relevant for longer in society.

[papawheely]

Debatably, you could see Anxiety as being a kind of 'young', partially developed version of Vigilance. Anxiety is often a situation of over-anticipation, and since Vigilance is all about anticipation and guarding oneself, I could see Anxiety maturing to become Vigilance as Riley grows older. I say this as someone who struggles with an anxiety disorder, so don't come at me saying I can't possibly be right because I haven't experienced it.