Inside Out - Anger Breaks Riley

[Brockuss.]

"Guys. We cant make riley feel anything." That hits hard.

[christophergirardi]

To everyone saying this is Anger's fault, remember that Disgust and Fear want what Anger wants: to make Riley happy again. However none of them are capable of doing that, leaving nothing but frustration and frustration leads to anger. Nothing they've tried worked, which lead Fear become complacent and Disgust onboard with Anger's rash, irrational, and in the end desperate decision to run away. Anger can be a great tool for focus, but can also blind you to reason. Anger near the end saw his plan had no logic to it and tried to back out, for Riley's safety, but the constant influx of negative aspects of each emotion present (fear, disgust, anger) caused Riley to go numb to stop the feeling so terrible. All three failed, because they couldn't give Riley the relief she needed, that Joy and Sadness could provide.

[excitablepack]

I love how fear is the voice of reason in this.

[Tirahvi]

Riley might not have depression but she is having depressive episode for sure. Triggered by big change in life that feels like for the worse. Due to moving stress, family arguments, surpressing negative feelings, botteling up sadness, it all came to having breakdown at shcool. Aftermath lost of intrests that used to make you happy. Intense mood swings. Slowly becoming numb to feelings all together. Untill she snaps out of bad decition, and finally breaks down crying allowing herself to feel the sorrow, the loss she feels.

[MrGabeanator]

Powerful message this movie has you can’t live your life ruled by just one emotion even happiness

[darealconman]

Fear’s line “Guys, we can’t make Riley feel anything.” is very heartbreaking, and it hits really hard on you once you’ve been through depression at least once in your life, but I came here for one very specific detail: Riley’s eyes turning more and more gray as she gets closer and closer to leaving San Francisco.

You notice throughout this scene, especially when Riley is at the bus station, her eyes start desaturating from that bright glowing blue to a dark and deep gray. The reason why Riley’s eyes are turning gray is because the substance that turns the console dark gray has taken full control after Anger, Fear, and Disgust fail to remove the lightbulb from Riley’s mind. This substance is known as Gloom.

Gloom taking over the console in Riley’s mind is a very clever representation of Riley going through depression and not feeling any emotions after she tries to leave San Francisco. Once Sadness came back and removed the lightbulb from Riley’s mind, Riley realized leaving San Francisco was the worst idea she’s ever had, and that she was actually going through depression while she was trying to leave San Francisco.

[danikaylen]

2:05 "what have we done?" Has to be the first time anger & disgust were scared

[Virgin_Succubus]

2:04 you can tell Riley’s eyes have gone darker than her usual blue

[jewel]

What I love about this scene is the always scared and stressed fear is speaking up while the confident disgust is staying quiet.
That's because while fear mean's afraid it also mean's care and love for your life. Fear knew this was wrong for Riley's life and wanted to stop it.
And there is disgust. She is confident and likes to speak up but when Riley was running away she stayed quiet. That's because it wasn't her job, she is supposed to be the emotion that tells you what's disgusting or not or what's trendy. Running away sometimes involve's Disgust but in Riley's case it doesnt.

[notexperttheif]

I came here for the line "guys we can't make Riley feel anything" I saw this in theaters and even then you hear the theater go quiet other then the movie to quote a famous line "it was so quiet you could hear a mouse"

[exospaceman]

I didn’t understand this as a child when I first saw this back in 2015.
As a young adult in 2023 it all make sense now…

[bandarsalh]

Fear stopping raily would actually make lots of sense, because fear makes you second guess your decisions

[RebeccaBourdeau-ccwp]

Everyone that is saying this is anger fault BE QUITE ANGER DID NOTHING WRONG HE WAS JUST TRYING TO MAKE RILEY HAPPY WITHOUT JOY

[Seriousgreeen]

when that console turns dark it really shows that they writers did a fantastic job. this was such a powerful part of the film.

[cxunfsq]

When we are suppressed from happiness and sadness, we do not think properly and we become desperate to get it back, that’s why anger effortlessly forced the board to do what he said until she lost all connection to emotions.
Anger is good when it has purpose, but the second it doesn’t it’s a very bad thing, hell it’s the thing that makes us motivated to win most of the time by fuelling our determination.
But the moment it has no purpose, the moment we can’t get something back or gain something by fighting it becomes a problem.

[olivijastrandjord]

Riley pauses & Fear voices his worry: “Wait. Wait. Hang on, guys. Are we really doing this? I mean, this is serious.” Anger refuses to turn back. Riley looks upset, as she sees Mom is calling her. Disgust looks worried as Anger tells Riley to keep going. As Family Island falls apart, Anger knows making Riley decide to run away from home was a bad idea, but it’s already too late. Fear, quietly to them: “Guys. We can’t make Riley feel anything.”

[Electroblade]

2:05
The Class After Making The Nice Teacher Angry:

[coolepictoons]

1:17 Fear rapidly breathing, had me wheezing 😂

[James_Howlett_The_Wolverine]

*Bro, the music in this scene actually gave me actual goosebumps! It’s an real intense scene!*

[SufferedZs]

This part hits me hard yall.
Fear: “Guys, we can’t make riley feel anything.”
Anger: “What’ve we done..”

Funniest Part
Anger: “Let me try! *Casually punches the Console* “
Disgust: “Great now you broke it >:0”