I thought this movie had a message that everybody already knew: "sadness is important and good", but the more I've heard people talk about this movie, the more I've realized that it wasn't as obvious to everyone else. I've always been somewhat melancholic and in touch with my emotions, and I find having a good cry at a moving video or song is really cathartic and stress releasing, and it comes more easily to me than laughing. But not all tears are purely of misery, and not all sadness is just bitter, there can be some sweet in there too.
Yes! If the bottom of the valley is sadness and the top of the mountain is happiness, them the best way to realize how high that mountain is, is to stand on the lowest point in the valley.
I had this experience with music. (I know, replying to a super old comment.) My friends would listen to my playlist and note the music as "sad," while I characterized it as "cathartic," "healing," soulful. I don't know how they'd interpret this movie, but when I talked about it with my mother and said "I love how they allegorize depression" and she thought I was talking about Phyllis' character, I was like "no, of course not." Having had the disgust part of my brain dismiss those friends saying "man, your emotions are super binary; you think the music is either sad or happy, while there's so much in between," I do relate to this comment because apparently it's not as obvious to people, and they're probably conditioned to see sadness antagonistically. (I wonder if this is me being pompous as fuck or realistic.) Of course there's some songs in that playlist that are just plain painful, not cathartic or anything lol. Maybe not knowing what the lyrics are saying contributes to my friends' thinking they're plain sad. But I thought it was an emotional maturity sort of thing.
Hey, someone who's "on the spectrum" here, I grew up with having trouble not necessarily empathy but reading other people's emotions. There is a large difference between these and I had to manually learn to recognize signs someone is sad/happy/etc. but when I did recognize them I did (strangely) only then have an empathetic response, I'm now in my twenties and I'm starting to notice that I've learned more about emotion watching people objectively than you'd think. I found that I was able to tell even when someone was suppressing emotion because I always had to look at their body language to notice emotions. Inside out did have an important message for me, but it was not one about empathy, It was more about listening to my own emotions.
I hear you brother. Im not on the spectrum but I grew up without being able to see facial expressions due to bad eyesight that wasnt fixed until i was 10. I had to learn manually to tell emotions through tone of voice, vague shapes and language. I still fall back on these in my work and in my personal life. Sometimes learning thing the hard way is learning them better. Because you understand exactly how it works and what goes into your decision making. Its the difference between looking at a diagram of and engine, and having to take one apart to fix it and seeing how it works. Keep learning and growing dude.
Not reading people thing, yes because that's a defining characteristic but my own emotions, its more like I felt emotions too strongly. Forcing me at an early age to learn to regulate them. This combined with the fact aspies don't emote too much lead to many finding me to not have emotions when in reality they just weren't expressed. Are also cases of me just being overly rational. Like if someone dies its not that I'm not sad just I process that emotion rapidly and deal with it. It makes it hard to relate to neurotypical reactions to things. They want outward displays of emotions to reinforce that tribal sensed of shared experiences and that just doesn't come naturally to us.
@@Stark-Raving Just a minor contribution to your explanation, but ASD isn't just a spectrum of severity, but also the way it presents. For example, I'm level 1 ASD and it means that I'm very pattern reliant. By comparison someone like Temple Grandin is very reliant on visual processing of information. As an aside, I highly recommend Temple Grandin's TED talk to anyone curious about ASD.
Does anyone remember that bus driver's emotions in the end credits of the movie? That guy's emotions all had steering wheels! I was thinking when I saw that: "Wow. That's sad." That guy was a bus driver for so long that the steering was ENGRAVED into his mind!
Preach. Our culture seems to have something against being sad. Or angry. Or scared. Or anything that isn't *happy* 100% of the time. We're told *constantly* that you should drop anything and anyone who doesn't make you happy. That you should do what makes you happy *all the time.* If you're sad, you should just 'decide' to be happy. That last one especially annoys me. I've dealt with clinical depression most of my life. My mom has it, my dad has it, *I* have it. Mom's got it so bad that she's *physically incapable of being happy* without medication. For us, medication is *necessary* to function as human beings. But there are other people in our family who *don't* have clinical depression but doctors have prescribed anti-depressants to, anyway. Why? Because someone *died.* They were *grieving* and that was taken as a medical problem to *fix* instead of a natural part of dealing with loss. Take it from someone whose emotions don't work the way they're supposed to and has spent most of her life trying to figure out *how* they're supposed to work (I'm also on the spectrum, hoo boy, is my brain a mess). There are no bad emotions. They exist to let us know that something's wrong, or something's right, or warn of potential danger, or point us toward a goal. The problem comes when an emotion, *any* emotion, takes control of our lives. We're supposed to think with our brains, not our endocrine system. Inside Out is *such* a refreshing change of pace that way. Thank you, Pixar. Thank you so much.
my grandma would always tell me to smile. sometimes i'm having a bad day, or am having a perfectly fine day just don't have any reason to smile at the moment. i'll be doing something and my grandma will randomly go "people will like you if you smile." like i was just getting up to get a snack, or turn on the tv, or thinking about something, why do i have to be smiling, its just the two of us at home. its just creepy to just smile all the time. and she goes "people won't want to be around grumpy people" I'm not grumpy, i'm not happy, I'm just... nothing, existing. "well you sound grumpy" Well maybe because you are bugging me about freaking smiling for no reason and now i am grumpy. she actually hasn't done it in awhile, idk if because we got proof i have depression or she finally realized it was unnecessary and anti productive.
Fighting Faerie: *Tell* me about it. Thankfully, I haven't gotten much of that from my own family, but it is kinda everywhere else. And it's not like people without depression smile 24/7. That expectation is just as annoying as people thinking that depression is being sad all the time. Or 'grumpy.' It's like you said, 'nothing.' Just existing. With the occasional bouts of random emotional overload. Yeesh.
This actually explains why I like so much movies that make me cry. And I love every piece of media that is capable of making me feel emotionally broken for a few hours after I turned it off: happiness isn't the only emotion that makes the human experience worthwhile, we should feel more comfortable exploring those sides of us that don't make us feel great all the time. I recently broke up with my girlfriend of 6 years, despite still being very fond of her (I love her as a person, but our relationship wasn't healthy and I realised that letting it go was the best thing to do), and there was a moment in which I could barely handle the feeling of loss; instead of doing what most people do, which is try to ignore it or do something to distract myself from that feeling, I willingly embraced it, listened to some music that made me think of her, sat down and cried my eyes out. After that, I actually felt much better and by the time I met with her again I was perfectly fine. We're on good terms now: I can talk to her, laugh with her and spend time together with her despite the break up. I don't know if I would be as fine as I am right now if I just pretended I was fine when I wasn't.
I have the same thing, where I really like things that can make me feel both sad and happy and all kinds of things. The ones that make me feel completely drained because that was just so good.
Yes, there are certain movies that just draaaain you, physically and emotionally, in the best possible way. For me, it’s “Ordinary People” - it pulls up so many different emotions in its runtime. It hurts, but it’s a “good” hurt (kind of like Riley’s “crying it out” catharsis in Inside Out)
What an outstanding video! This is why, in my opinion, your channel is so much better than CinemaSins. While they nitpick completely unimportant details and call them "flaws", you dive into the deeper, core themes of the movies you review. You really understand what makes a movie good, and it seems like you can find that greatness in any film you watch.
I honestly stopped watching CinemaSins for this reason. It's easy to point flaws and nitpick and just feels very simple and shallow. When I was younger, I loved it. But the older I've gotten I've just begun to dislike a lot of media's obsession with "conflict" if that makes any sense, lol. We don't have to ignore the bad, but I would love to embrace the good instead.
I don’t like cinema sins because a lot of their nitpicks are stupid things. I know a lot of people say “whoa it’s comedy!!” But it’s not comedy and being comedic doesn’t mean you’re impervious to any kind of criticism. That’s the laziest form of defense when you have to lean back on “dude it was a joke” to justify yourself. I stopped watching and I prefer this channel. Unlike Jeremy, this guy actually understands his material.
Dear CinemaWins. I just wanted to say i really appreciated this level of honesty from you in this video - it actually warmed me and i found it quite heartwarming. Thank you for sharing so much of yourself to us through the narration. I will always be a HUGE fan of you, as a person, and your channel. Thanks!!!
While EGA is your bread and butter, things like this are really important for you and your audience. It helps challenge your brain and self and gives insight to your audience on who you are, and what movies mean to you, and by proxy, others. Keep it up ^^
All these people asking him to do other videos are missing the point. He’s branching out and creating new types of content, which is amazing and incredibly well made. I really can’t wait to see what he does with this next 😄
Also, speaking from experience, that ending of Riley just shutting down, that's how my depression started. So while correct it wasn't clinical depression in the movie (the symptoms of depression need to persist for 2 weeks for it to be classed as such) it would have pregressed to that point if not for the sadness she was finally able to Express
As someone with Autism, this fucking movie was the trigger for me feeling many emotions. After a year or so of turmoil, this movie opened the floodgates and made me realize that I HAVE emotion. So, needless to say, I am forever grateful for this film.
on your earlier days, I've always thought that CW and CS are just sides of the same coin. But as you progress and start giving insights (and now this :D ), I've never been more happy to admit that I'm wrong. From what started as a CS parody, u've become a more unique channel and set urself at a higher quality than CS! Keep up the good work and thanks a lot for giving us positive vibes and more through your videos :)
isiah zyrus Siega CS definitely isn’t funny. I don’t think Jeremy understands comedy and his voice is punchable. CS also doesn’t understand film so that bothers me a little as well. There’s nothing wrong with criticizing a movie but CS nitpicks it and puts no effort into even cracking a joke other than saying “boner.”
@CinemaWins Thank you. Not just for making great videos, but specifically for making this one I never truly understood Inside Out until now. After seeing this video, I need to rewatch it. I’m moving away for college very soon to study Film and I still find myself trying to figure things out, confused as to how the world works, and what it means to be a balanced individual in the real world. This shed some light on it. Obviously it’s up to me and me alone to figure out all that life throws at me, but damn, sometimes videos like these help a ton. So thank you so much for that, and keep at it!
I have a secret to tell you . *** You're already a video essayist You've been one since basically the beginning? You always take the broader view of things. The reason your videos are far superior to CinemaSins is he deprives things of context but you revel in it. I'm always glad to hear your "final thoughts" on each movie because they're always about the entire experience and stuff.
Just because you mostly focus on what literally happens in the movie and look at it from a mostly chronologically-linear perspective doesn't mean you're not a video essayist, just one with a style different from what is "usual" (RE: Mikey, Lindsay)
This is how people misunderstand depression. Depression isnt caused by being sad all the time its the feeling of being numb and the feeling of "You should be happy and not sad cuz thats what u should be". Its important to know being sad is as important as being happy
when I watched Inside Out i noticed " this Movie's message reminds me of the message of another Movie, Song of the Sea." There, the "villain" is trying to stop emotions from afflicting anyone, though it's more centered about grief
I like this. Doing a in depth review, especially in your voice. If you are going to make this into a series, why not make a new counter. A learning counter, or understanding counter. Just an idea. Love your videos mate, and please do Braveheart, the Patriot or Wall-E. Wall-E would make a good video for this series.
i would fucking kill for a wall-e movie from cinama wins. heck even if sins makes a video on wall -e ill just be happy to know he has something to say about it
I wanted to add something you might find as an interesting connection. Throughout the film Riley is experiencing a breakdown of sorts, as we know, but I noticed how the outside person of Riley (meaning not her individual emotions) was shown (like in the classroom on her first day) in farther back perspective. In other words, what a viewer sees is no where near what is felt on the inside. When Riley was called to introduce herself a major emotional backfire took place and all the classmates saw were a few tears. The rest of the movie continues building on this until Riley takes the bus out of town, but each time what we see emulated within her mind is no where near translated on the outside of her person to other people. I find this to be especially interesting because of how hard communication can be between adults and especially teens and children.
I think the lesson I learned was here was relationships others are the most invaluable thing in life. The way Riley’s expression of sadness towards her family, how they were able to relate towards her. I think the content smile during the hug was Riley realising all her core memories were made with her family. She realised they were her home.
I interpreted sadness being the mom's "lead" emotion correlating to how comfort and emphatic are almost a subset of sadness in this universe, and well moms are generally the ones that have that role in their kid's life. Similarly, aggression and competitiveness are subsets of anger in this universe, so Riley's dad being a businessman who has to be aggressive in his everyday life made sense having anger as his lead emotion.
if you ever find another movie where you feel like you can do something like this again, then please do so. While I enjoy the heck out of your "surface look" on movies, my favorite part of your analyses is always the end part where you take a deeper look. So while I don't think you necessarily need to analyze every single movie this deep, i also want you not to be afraid of making these types ov videos then you find something to talk about. So then, thanks for the awesome content, and keep it up.
My friends and I usually have this “Talk” every weekend during sleepovers, we’d discuss philosophies and heartaches. I’m usually the “Therapy Friend” but I’ve learnt that sometimes I can cry around them and be vulnerable. Now it’s become a regular thing for us to talk about our feelings and it honestly feels great, to bond with each other and see that even though we’re all different there’s a sense of ‘we’re all the same’ buried deep down.
Thinking of Joy’s design, I like their choice of giving her blue hair - the same shade of blue as Sadness’ hair. I think it is a physical representation of the notion that “you can’t have joy without sadness”. Nice touch. As always, Pixar’s storytelling (through the plot line, character development and visuals) FAR outstrips ANY OTHER COMPANY’S, and I think that that really shines with this film in particular. One bone to pick: although an excellent representation of depression, I feel as if they could’ve made the panel blacken slowly over the course of a few days or weeks, to show that the onset of depression usually takes a bit of time. As usual, FANTASTIC VIDEO!
I love the message of this movie because it something we don’t hear much in the society that we live in. Often as humans we avoid sadness because we think it inhibits our ability to do what we’ve perceived as successful or cool or happy but as you’ve said it only makes those experiences more meaningful. As someone with clinical depression emotions ca be really hard, but the moments when im able to cry are just as important to me as the ones where I can smile. It’s an outlet of emotion that’s just as important at the others and just as necessary. Sadness is important. It is a motivator, it brings people together, it helps people grow. I definitely agree with your conclusion-being sad isn’t just okay, it’s vital
I am a singer at heart. This movie taught me a lot, and I’ve adapted to moving to England. People have told me what to do, I’ve had to grow, and change, but no matter what happens I am always a singer at heart.
I have 57 yrs of memories in my head. There's childhood, high school, college, the Army, first love etc.. and they're all bittersweet. It's what happens when there's more time behind you than ahead of you. I still feel joy when I remember but it's mixed with loss and sadness.
I think when you lose something, the memories of that thing become sad. Riley is dealing with grief over her old life, and as time passes, the memories will slowly gain more yellow and become the awful yet wonderful emotion we know as nostalgia
That movie must be one of the best I seen in an really long time.. it still make me cry when I think of that moment when the child tells her parants all that is bad, and the parents just hugs her. it still gets to me, even if I am 26 years old. it keeps making me cry.
I love this so darn much bc this is very different from a lot of other youtube film review channels. Sure they can talk about how much they love the film or it can make them cry, but at the end of the day I always feel like something is missing. Your video fills that void. Thank you.
This movie, as someone who is on the spectrum, made me realize I did have emotions, it's just hard for me to express them the same way others do. Maybe that has more to do with my long-term depression that I suffered throughout middle and high school as well as some of college, but the fact that this movie had such an emotional affect on me was the very reason why it felt so good. It made me more comfortable in facing my depression with a recognition of me not being sad but rather apathetic to the world around me.
"Because there is sadness we can feel joy. Where there is anger, compassion is born" a line that has always stuck with me and is something that i sometimes need to remind me its ok to be sad, to cry and to be angry
I always found it weird how Joy was the only one who doesn't have their hair color the same as their skin. But I think that's what makes Joy "joy." It's because she does have a little part of sadness on her that allows her to be joy.
Just wanted to say that this is one of my favorite channels. I think that your videos are a huge boon for youtube, film criticism culture, and the lives of those who watch them. Your videos have more than once helped me to better appreciate the movies I watch, the skill taken to craft them and their impact on me. Your positivity and love can be felt in your work, and I appreciate it with my whole heart.
This video brought up some of those “core memories” that have always been happy and sad for me, this video physically brought me to tears, you should totally do more of these holy crap. Now I didn’t have a bad childhood by any means, but there was a point in my family’s life that was hell for all of us, and afterward I ignored all the feelings I had. I regret not thinking about it, I regret ignoring the sadness and terrible pit that it left behind. I’m still trying to get past it, and I think that’s why I connect with this movie so much.
I know I am late as hell but I am 14 (male) and I haven’t cried in 3 years I understand and have been told a multitude of times it is ok to drive but I don’t, I make myself not. This opened my eyes I have been told by family/friends but a respected 3rd party in my eyes like you saying this help. Thank you.
Isaac Foster i know its not asked for, but could I offer some advice on anxiety? The best thing for anxiety is to take a second or two to breathe. Breathe slowly, in through your nose, out through your mouth. Maybe squeeze a stress ball in time with your breathing. Its also important to balance how much you focus inward. Self pity just encourages negative feelings, but on the other end not taking a moment to be upset when you are just causes those feelings to build up. This is what helps me at least, I hope it can help you.
I'm sorry you have to go through all that. Nobody should just be told to "control their emotions" when they have serious mental/emotional problems. It's so insensitive.
I don’t know about anyone else, but I wasn’t able to relate with Riley the first time around. I just thought it was a good movie that was really funny, and thought nothing more after. Then I watched it again a few days ago, after a few months of living with relatives in a town I felt unfamiliar in still. Most of the movie was pretty much the same.... Until I reached the final scene and heard this line: “I want to go home.” This was the moment the tears started running, as I still missed all my friends I made before I left my old town. I missed the activities I used to do, the familiar streets I walked down, and generally everything about my old home. However, I knew there wasn’t any way I could ever go back to that, since things had changed. Bravo, Inside Out. I’ll be showing this movie to any future family members and remember that final scene. 10/10
I already loved your Everythings about Inside Out, but this one really gives us your honest thoughts about this movie. Joy still pisses me off. So. Annoying. Which is probably why she was written like that.
I find it kinda interesting about that, whenever I meet someone who is ALWAYS happy. I first feel unnerved like a way of, "this guy ain't right..." but it can go into a jealous "stop that...Noone is like that, I have never seen you sad, angry, or even scared STOP THAT!"
@@silverackerman394 that's true, but i'd find that just a range fron weird to creepy. What Joy (character) does, is forcing herself upon Riley's psyche just because, and refuses to let Riley be anything but happy. She is the vestigial incarnation of her childishness, more than of happines itself. And as children tend to be, she is incredibly selfish about it.
@@edoardoprevelato6577 that makes sense, it's kinda like how someone can personify depression and anxiety and get pissed at the mental illness not themselves, as "they" force fear/sadness (in general terms) onto that person Right?
Inside Out is by far my favorite Pixar film to date. The story that's told is simple but really profound. And that end scene is just amazing. Brings me to tears every time I watch it. There is another scene where Joy is in the memory dump and she "rewinds" the memory and realizes that sadness is what brought the hockey team, and I love that scene. I didn't really know that sadness could have a positive role, and this film helped me discover that. So whenever I feel sad or stressed, I feel that it's easier to let out your emotions rather than bottle them up. Especially with anger. Great video, by the way. I really like your EGA videos because they go deeper than the surface level. You put a lot of thought into them, and try to see the positives in a movie that sometimes I believe doesn't deserve it. Keep making them!
I don't feel like you get how.... emotions work. If someone is "sad forever" he needs help... and not hate. Telling him to "just be happy again" is not helping...
@@EinBick It's just a phrase my mom says when one of the foster kids is mad at themselves for crying. I know emotions have more than that like he said "its necessary to be and feel sad"
Vinicius Raposo No. You misrepresented what Ein said. The latter third of Abby’s original comment is appropriate. The statement “it’s not okay to stay that way forever” is easy to construe as victim-blaming, which is never helpful and assumes that sadness persists as the result of a lack of effort.
@Amy Gradess An emotion comes from within... You can be nice to people and comfort them. But that won't make them happy or have good emotions. And blaming them for that is just wrong.
The year this movie came out I had to move away from my old home. It wasn't just a place where I lived, I grew up there, spend so many wonderful childhood years at that place, filled with memories about my already deceased father. I loved my old home so much so of course I felt sad and hurt that I had to leave everything behind but tried to keep it to myself. I didn't want to bother anyone with my problems. And then I saw this movie and it really opened my eyes. Usually I am trying to keep my pain and sorrow inside myself but this time it was different. I opened up to the people I love and they were able to help me. I embraced the feeling of being sad for once and experienced, for the first time in my life, that crying is okay. I got used to my knew home really fast, I am actually happy now about this change and I do believe that Inside Out played a big part in this healing process.
That's Lord of the Rings! I know that paddle... Give me three hours and I can give you a timestamp. Wait... Better make that 10 hours. Once I've begun, I can't not...
I'm right there with alot of the people praising you and your channel. Your insight is so refreshing and such a WELCOME change to all the negativity. Can't tell you how much I enjoy your every word. Your obvious intelligence shines through the narration and is teaching me to appreciate not only movies but many things in new ways. Mostly movies though. Please never stop.
3:06 A good point to this: when Fear tried to leave the same way Joy and Sadness got lost he literally couldn't. He just stood there as the rest of the memories got sucked up and past him as Disgust reminded him "emotions can't quit." This means that Joy and Sadness being not only able to but **forced** to leave HQ signifies that something was very wrong.
Is that teaser a picture of one of the boats that Galadriel gives the Fellowship for their trip down the Anduin? OMG are we getting Everything Great About Fellowship of the Ring!?!?!?! This is going to be awesome!
Inside out can be one of the most important movies of all time. There’s no reason every kid should not see this. What a great video. More of this please.
I always think of Riley being the rationale and the logic, while the emotions make the snap decisions. This would explain why the emotions have such a presence in controlling Riley during the hockey game (instinct and reflexes taking over) while in everyday life, Riley has more control over her actions.
i didn’t realize how right you were about sadness and happiness being mixed, until a couple days ago, where i had a conversation with my friend about fear and anxieties about my identity, and i felt the closest i’ve ever felt to a human being, a sad moment that was happy because him and i shared our pain together
Thank you so much for talking about the difference between depression and sadness in Inside Out. I've seen too many people criticize this movie for portraying Riley as depressed when she was "just a rich little white girl with no right to be sad". This criticism not only furthers the tendency of so many to treat clinical depression like some kind of merit-based cred card -- which is total BS and a really dangerous attitude -- but the movie also just plain didn't do that.
I've always found it very interesting that both joy and sadness commonly make us cry. Even though sometimes they feel like such opposites. I should really watch this movie again.
As someone who has had anger and depression issue for his entire life... I just gotta say this video was really well made. You touched on the topic of depression in a very tactful and tasteful way without downing on or polishing up the issue itself. Very very very well made video, looking forward to more!
wow...first time im watching a human on youtube...I mean man! can't even describe it, i been dealing with depression big part of my life and like you I thought that maybe having this channel and growing up having thousands of views will make me feel like I succeed it...I love your channel and hope to keep doing this for a long time! Thank you
It's strange, but I think this is my favorite video so far not because it was my favorite movie or that you made the most amazing points (i.e. sharing my joy of film), but it is because it is one of those rare and beautiful videos that remind you that it is okay to feel what you feel. Sadness is okay. Anger and fear and frustration are okay; what really matters is how you react to those emotions, and I think that is an incredibly powerful and underrated message. I don't know if you ever saw much of the Mr. Rodger's neighborhood series, but one of the big things he cared about was teaching kids that it was okay to feel emotions and that they were not the only ones to feel that way. He wanted kids to learn how to find healthy ways of dealing with their feelings, and to me that is what this movie and (and your video by extension) are really about. Thank you so much for sharing!
I've had generalized anxiety disorder since I was a kid. Then I spent my whole adolescence relentlessly drilling the fact that everything is pointless and we're all going to die into my own brain, all while pretending I was fine so that no one would worry, which made me develop depression. I'm 30 now, a college dropout, and even after going to therapy and taking medication, I still feel thoroughly broken and beyond help.
Don't give up. Things may seem hopeless, but as long as you're alive, you will never be beyond help. (Fuck, I wish I could give you some actual specific advice, but I'm no psychiatrist or even good at talking to people.) The brain is complicated, just because you haven't found the therapy/medication that works for you, doesn't mean it's not out there.
I always liked it when you dove deeper into 'review mode' in your wins videos. Glad to see you're now giving it its own space and more room for reflection.
I've been SEVERELY Chronically Depressed my entire life, and I'm autistic (or, as you said "on the spectrum") and I really loved your breakdown and personal insights on this. I love the way you drew a line between sadness and "clinical depression". I've been on a journey to watch all of your EGA videos, in upload order, but since this one was in the uploads list, I watched it, and you did a great job here.
This, this moved me to tears. You are an amazing man, everything you said was just right on point. Honestly i can say you taught me something. Especially about success. Ive always tried to live in the moment but always had that thought of if i get this if i do this i will make it like you said. This helps me now to put things in better perspective. And honestly the way you do this channel its like you are a father to us all. It comes through with everything you do and say. Thank you for doing what you do, and please dont hold anything back we all can handoe when you are not having a good time.
I just recently found out I have depression, and might have it for years without even realizing it. That compounded with my ADHD, and the stress of school and life, has had me at that place of not feeling for a while. So thank you for talking about depression in that light, not just saying it's constantly feeling sad. It is always nice to hear someone explain why people have depression and not just writing it off as stress, or being a teenager. For the people who dont have depression it can be hard to understand what depression is. So again I say thank you!
Dozens of emotions? It’s well accepted in psychological literature that humans only have 6 inherent and independent emotions. 5 out of 6 were included in Inside Out, the sixth emotion being “surprise”. It’s actually more realistic with 5 emotions than with dozens. And what the movie shows is that those 5 core emotions, there is so much nuance between them which lead to more complex emotions and thoughts.
Dam, that last part, sadness makes us great. I’ve been struggling with depression for a bit now, and honestly I felt like I could not tell anyone , cuz I felt they would say “come on your just exaggerating” or “your dramatic”, so I kept my feelings to my self and I felt like because of this there was something wrong with me, but now, I’m glad I can feel comfortable with my sadness or depression. Of course, if I could get rid of it I would, but now I don’t dread it like I used to do, now I accept it , I am sad , and that’s okay, I won’t hide it and fake being happy, I will be my self and when I do feel sad , accept it and cry or do what I have to do to get through, but no more hiding. I’m glad I saw this video, and I really hope he makes more. Thanks cinema wins for this
That stuff you said about "ignorance is bliss, but what does that say about knowledge" (Knowledge is depression) is something I have thought over for the longest time as I go through existential dread and finding my tiny place in society and the universe. For the longest time, I have thought this was the reason that suicide, especially teen suicide has increased in the last decade. With the introduction of smartphones, the internet, and the ability to have any questions you could ask answered in just a couple of seconds has boomed our knowledge and understanding to the point that our emotions can't catch up and we become emotionally incapable of dealing with our own thoughts. Anyways, keep up the great work and keep spreading just a little bit more positivity.
For me, this movie really hit home for a few reasons. The most significant of which is that as I've grown up (i'm 20 now) I've adopted a state of emotional apathy. I've gradually learned a "go with the flow attitude" which overall has made my life easier. However, just because it's easier doesn't mean it's better. When I saw this movie it took me right back to when i was younger and my emotions were so much more powerful and raw, and had such a bigger impact on my actions. I saw this in theaters and is the closest I've ever come to crying in a movie (the only exception being "Bridge to Teribithia" which I saw when I was about 6 i think). For the first half of the movie i was just kinda watching no emotions really attached. but as it went on, it had a way of bringing my dulled emotions back into focus and helping me see my emotional state. I was a huge wake up call, and i'm grateful for it.
personally i think a go with the flow attitude is still good to have. its about mixing that in with actually having your emotion. or at least thats what ive found
This was an excellent video essay. Thank you for your honesty. You reminded me that I've been dealing with depression for so long that my outlook is skewed for what "normal" should be. And that's a good thing. Because it means things can be *better* .
Nice! I know this is a bit divisive and sacrilegious to some, but I prefer 2049 a lot more than the original. Not that it was horrible, but I personally felt it was mediocre. A video of both, side by side, the great things about each one and seeing the themes from the original and sequel would be cool to see from CinemaWins.
This video really touched me. I am going through some really emotional times with some big decisions ahead of me and I keep trying to find ways to fight what I'm feeling, yet when I do get the chance to be by myself, and I let my sadness out, I come out of the other side feeling like I learned something new about myself. How much I cared about someone or how I tend to react to certain situations. Thank you, please keep the series going if you were planning on doing so
okay obvious reference to "Movies with Mikey" is obvious, but I liked to format, and would watch more videos like this, thanks for the insightful video!
Beautifully said. Pete Docter is a true genius... The scene with Mom thanking Riley for being happy in a hard time for the family -- it was put in and taken out a few times in the development process. For me it was essential. Every parent has (mistakenly) done it and we do want our kids to be happy - for them and for us cause, if we are deeply honest, a happy kid is a whole lot easier to deal with. (and their emotions that aren't happy can trigger our emotions--- we become unregulated emotionally and then down into the rabbit hole we go). This scene is also about where joy gets her idea that she is in charge - that Riley must stay happy (which drives her the whole movie). .... I had a Dad come up to me at an event and tell me that Inside Out taught him how to be a better parent. I was touched until he added "now when she's sad I just say "hey get Joy back on the controls" -- ah. Okay. That is the OPPOSITE of what the film was trying to say...One last thing - re teaching your son at an early age, when emotions are binary. My understanding is that at an early age you do what Sadness did with Bing Bong. You mirror back the emotion so that your son knows how to identify the emotion he is feeling. And accept it as a part of him. Let him have it. That alone is a huge step in emotional development.
I like that idea! Especially considering how seemingly everyone nowadays pushes, "Be yourself. Do what you want. Nothing else matters. You come first. If you just believe, everything will work out. You can be whatever you want, no matter what little effort you contribute." While none of these are necessarily bad when placed in their correct context, it's so tiring to hear all the time. I like that Coco puts emphasis on prioritizing. Some things come first, and they aren't necessarily your dreams. The importance of family is so often overlooked.
I am really glad that you talked about how the Mum asked Riley to be happy and how bad that can be for your child. I've been told, 'no one will want to be friends with someone who's sad' and everytime I expressed an emotion that wasn't joy, the perople I are about would suffer. This was as a child, like 8 or 9 and since then, almost 10 years later, I live by that unconsciously. I hide my emotions so well that I don't realise until I can't anymore which results in me freaking out and having to apologise for feeling cause I said one or two things about something the other person was doing to me. (Verbally) Which makes me even more scared to confront others. So yes, I really am quite glad that you, Pixar and the many people in the comments who recognised that saying (through words or actions) one thing about faking an emotion is damaging to someone who depends/trusts you. (Also, I am not just talking. I was clinically diagnosed with depression at 8 and have been in and out of therapy since, especially since I developed a social anxiety disorder.)
Thank you for mentioning people on the spectrum! For me, the movie was actually very relatable. I am autistic and have what I'd describe as a medium degree of alexithymia (I can't identify nuanced emotions), so for me having these broad categories of emotions made total sense. I get anger and sadness and joy and disgust... I get the broad categories, and I get the mix of them, it made total sense to me, and I loved the visualisation of it all. I rationally understand different emotions, like when I read about them, they make sense to me, I just can't identify them when I feel them and have trouble identifying them in other people. At the same time, with the basic emotions like sadness or anger or happiness, like many autistic people I display hyperempathy, which essentially means that if someone is crying, I also start crying and may even feel very sad, I kind of... take over other people's emotions (if they're strong and basic enough), like my brain over-compensates for not getting the more nuanced emotions.
Thank you for making this, and for the amazing work you do on your channel. People consume so much media these days and rarely stop to really think about what they are ingesting. I'm so glad creators like you are here to break down what we watch and take time to think about what we are learning or understanding from our media.
This essay brought me to tears btw. I've always been very empathetic and in touch with my emotions - especially sadness - but as I got older it started to feel less and less acceptable to be the way I am. And I was always labelled as too emotional by friends and family, so I started to think it was a bad thing. Only recently, after seeking counselling, did I re-learn that it's okay to be sad.
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I thought this movie had a message that everybody already knew: "sadness is important and good", but the more I've heard people talk about this movie, the more I've realized that it wasn't as obvious to everyone else.
I've always been somewhat melancholic and in touch with my emotions, and I find having a good cry at a moving video or song is really cathartic and stress releasing, and it comes more easily to me than laughing. But not all tears are purely of misery, and not all sadness is just bitter, there can be some sweet in there too.
Yes! If the bottom of the valley is sadness and the top of the mountain is happiness, them the best way to realize how high that mountain is, is to stand on the lowest point in the valley.
O thought its obvious too
I had this experience with music. (I know, replying to a super old comment.)
My friends would listen to my playlist and note the music as "sad," while I characterized it as "cathartic," "healing," soulful. I don't know how they'd interpret this movie, but when I talked about it with my mother and said "I love how they allegorize depression" and she thought I was talking about Phyllis' character, I was like "no, of course not."
Having had the disgust part of my brain dismiss those friends saying "man, your emotions are super binary; you think the music is either sad or happy, while there's so much in between," I do relate to this comment because apparently it's not as obvious to people, and they're probably conditioned to see sadness antagonistically. (I wonder if this is me being pompous as fuck or realistic.)
Of course there's some songs in that playlist that are just plain painful, not cathartic or anything lol. Maybe not knowing what the lyrics are saying contributes to my friends' thinking they're plain sad. But I thought it was an emotional maturity sort of thing.
A good cry can be cleansing.
Hey, someone who's "on the spectrum" here, I grew up with having trouble not necessarily empathy but reading other people's emotions. There is a large difference between these and I had to manually learn to recognize signs someone is sad/happy/etc. but when I did recognize them I did (strangely) only then have an empathetic response, I'm now in my twenties and I'm starting to notice that I've learned more about emotion watching people objectively than you'd think. I found that I was able to tell even when someone was suppressing emotion because I always had to look at their body language to notice emotions. Inside out did have an important message for me, but it was not one about empathy, It was more about listening to my own emotions.
what does 'on the spectrum' means ?
@@vimlarawat4313 Autism, "on the spectrum" is used to describe people with autism since the severity can vary greatly.
I hear you brother. Im not on the spectrum but I grew up without being able to see facial expressions due to bad eyesight that wasnt fixed until i was 10. I had to learn manually to tell emotions through tone of voice, vague shapes and language. I still fall back on these in my work and in my personal life. Sometimes learning thing the hard way is learning them better. Because you understand exactly how it works and what goes into your decision making. Its the difference between looking at a diagram of and engine, and having to take one apart to fix it and seeing how it works. Keep learning and growing dude.
Not reading people thing, yes because that's a defining characteristic but my own emotions, its more like I felt emotions too strongly. Forcing me at an early age to learn to regulate them. This combined with the fact aspies don't emote too much lead to many finding me to not have emotions when in reality they just weren't expressed. Are also cases of me just being overly rational. Like if someone dies its not that I'm not sad just I process that emotion rapidly and deal with it. It makes it hard to relate to neurotypical reactions to things. They want outward displays of emotions to reinforce that tribal sensed of shared experiences and that just doesn't come naturally to us.
@@Stark-Raving Just a minor contribution to your explanation, but ASD isn't just a spectrum of severity, but also the way it presents. For example, I'm level 1 ASD and it means that I'm very pattern reliant. By comparison someone like Temple Grandin is very reliant on visual processing of information.
As an aside, I highly recommend Temple Grandin's TED talk to anyone curious about ASD.
Does anyone remember that bus driver's emotions in the end credits of the movie? That guy's emotions all had steering wheels! I was thinking when I saw that: "Wow. That's sad." That guy was a bus driver for so long that the steering was ENGRAVED into his mind!
Not to mention that all of them were Anger. The different colors were there, but they all had Anger's short boxy body.
aww crap
Bimbo Butt this is why we thank the bus driver
As the wife of a bus driver, I can confirm all that was said here.
Preach.
Our culture seems to have something against being sad. Or angry. Or scared. Or anything that isn't *happy* 100% of the time. We're told *constantly* that you should drop anything and anyone who doesn't make you happy. That you should do what makes you happy *all the time.* If you're sad, you should just 'decide' to be happy.
That last one especially annoys me. I've dealt with clinical depression most of my life. My mom has it, my dad has it, *I* have it. Mom's got it so bad that she's *physically incapable of being happy* without medication. For us, medication is *necessary* to function as human beings. But there are other people in our family who *don't* have clinical depression but doctors have prescribed anti-depressants to, anyway. Why? Because someone *died.* They were *grieving* and that was taken as a medical problem to *fix* instead of a natural part of dealing with loss.
Take it from someone whose emotions don't work the way they're supposed to and has spent most of her life trying to figure out *how* they're supposed to work (I'm also on the spectrum, hoo boy, is my brain a mess). There are no bad emotions. They exist to let us know that something's wrong, or something's right, or warn of potential danger, or point us toward a goal. The problem comes when an emotion, *any* emotion, takes control of our lives. We're supposed to think with our brains, not our endocrine system.
Inside Out is *such* a refreshing change of pace that way. Thank you, Pixar. Thank you so much.
Take your joy you fucking downer
Yuss, just yuss
my grandma would always tell me to smile. sometimes i'm having a bad day, or am having a perfectly fine day just don't have any reason to smile at the moment. i'll be doing something and my grandma will randomly go "people will like you if you smile." like i was just getting up to get a snack, or turn on the tv, or thinking about something, why do i have to be smiling, its just the two of us at home. its just creepy to just smile all the time. and she goes "people won't want to be around grumpy people" I'm not grumpy, i'm not happy, I'm just... nothing, existing. "well you sound grumpy" Well maybe because you are bugging me about freaking smiling for no reason and now i am grumpy.
she actually hasn't done it in awhile, idk if because we got proof i have depression or she finally realized it was unnecessary and anti productive.
agreed. thats not to say, you shouldnt try to be positive. but positivity doesnt have to be happy.
Fighting Faerie: *Tell* me about it. Thankfully, I haven't gotten much of that from my own family, but it is kinda everywhere else. And it's not like people without depression smile 24/7. That expectation is just as annoying as people thinking that depression is being sad all the time. Or 'grumpy.' It's like you said, 'nothing.' Just existing. With the occasional bouts of random emotional overload. Yeesh.
This actually explains why I like so much movies that make me cry. And I love every piece of media that is capable of making me feel emotionally broken for a few hours after I turned it off: happiness isn't the only emotion that makes the human experience worthwhile, we should feel more comfortable exploring those sides of us that don't make us feel great all the time.
I recently broke up with my girlfriend of 6 years, despite still being very fond of her (I love her as a person, but our relationship wasn't healthy and I realised that letting it go was the best thing to do), and there was a moment in which I could barely handle the feeling of loss; instead of doing what most people do, which is try to ignore it or do something to distract myself from that feeling, I willingly embraced it, listened to some music that made me think of her, sat down and cried my eyes out. After that, I actually felt much better and by the time I met with her again I was perfectly fine. We're on good terms now: I can talk to her, laugh with her and spend time together with her despite the break up. I don't know if I would be as fine as I am right now if I just pretended I was fine when I wasn't.
I have the same thing, where I really like things that can make me feel both sad and happy and all kinds of things. The ones that make me feel completely drained because that was just so good.
Wow, I've never really thought about this before. I love music and movies that make me cry.... unbelievable. This movie is incredible.
Yes, there are certain movies that just draaaain you, physically and emotionally, in the best possible way. For me, it’s “Ordinary People” - it pulls up so many different emotions in its runtime. It hurts, but it’s a “good” hurt (kind of like Riley’s “crying it out” catharsis in Inside Out)
"To try to prevent sadness is to invoke depression" Those are some words of wisdom right there.
What an outstanding video! This is why, in my opinion, your channel is so much better than CinemaSins. While they nitpick completely unimportant details and call them "flaws", you dive into the deeper, core themes of the movies you review. You really understand what makes a movie good, and it seems like you can find that greatness in any film you watch.
I honestly stopped watching CinemaSins for this reason. It's easy to point flaws and nitpick and just feels very simple and shallow. When I was younger, I loved it. But the older I've gotten I've just begun to dislike a lot of media's obsession with "conflict" if that makes any sense, lol. We don't have to ignore the bad, but I would love to embrace the good instead.
CinemaSins is done purposefully as comedic, CinemaWins is a serious movie reviewer. There's a difference.
Cinema Sins doesn't work because it can't both be satire and criticism. I hate that channel now. It makes very little sense.
I don’t like cinema sins because a lot of their nitpicks are stupid things. I know a lot of people say “whoa it’s comedy!!” But it’s not comedy and being comedic doesn’t mean you’re impervious to any kind of criticism. That’s the laziest form of defense when you have to lean back on “dude it was a joke” to justify yourself. I stopped watching and I prefer this channel. Unlike Jeremy, this guy actually understands his material.
You know the majority of Cinema sins is satire right you didn’t miss that part
Dear CinemaWins.
I just wanted to say i really appreciated this level of honesty from you in this video - it actually warmed me and i found it quite heartwarming. Thank you for sharing so much of yourself to us through the narration. I will always be a HUGE fan of you, as a person, and your channel. Thanks!!!
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While EGA is your bread and butter, things like this are really important for you and your audience. It helps challenge your brain and self and gives insight to your audience on who you are, and what movies mean to you, and by proxy, others. Keep it up ^^
All these people asking him to do other videos are missing the point. He’s branching out and creating new types of content, which is amazing and incredibly well made. I really can’t wait to see what he does with this next 😄
Dude, if this is your first video essay, then you did damn good, by golly.
As for the teaser frame... I am so excited for this one!
Also, speaking from experience, that ending of Riley just shutting down, that's how my depression started. So while correct it wasn't clinical depression in the movie (the symptoms of depression need to persist for 2 weeks for it to be classed as such) it would have pregressed to that point if not for the sadness she was finally able to Express
As someone with Autism, this fucking movie was the trigger for me feeling many emotions. After a year or so of turmoil, this movie opened the floodgates and made me realize that I HAVE emotion. So, needless to say, I am forever grateful for this film.
on your earlier days, I've always thought that CW and CS are just sides of the same coin. But as you progress and start giving insights (and now this :D ), I've never been more happy to admit that I'm wrong. From what started as a CS parody, u've become a more unique channel and set urself at a higher quality than CS!
Keep up the good work and thanks a lot for giving us positive vibes and more through your videos :)
I'd rather think of this as a counterpart to CS's Dear Hollywood letters.
Yay!
i've seen a few of those, and i can't help but cringe at how CS is trying to be funny. And it's an overstatement to even call it "trying"
isiah zyrus Siega CS definitely isn’t funny. I don’t think Jeremy understands comedy and his voice is punchable. CS also doesn’t understand film so that bothers me a little as well. There’s nothing wrong with criticizing a movie but CS nitpicks it and puts no effort into even cracking a joke other than saying “boner.”
did you just insult cinemasins
@CinemaWins Thank you. Not just for making great videos, but specifically for making this one
I never truly understood Inside Out until now. After seeing this video, I need to rewatch it. I’m moving away for college very soon to study Film and I still find myself trying to figure things out, confused as to how the world works, and what it means to be a balanced individual in the real world. This shed some light on it. Obviously it’s up to me and me alone to figure out all that life throws at me, but damn, sometimes videos like these help a ton. So thank you so much for that, and keep at it!
It’s been a year since you’ve posted this, but I hope your studies are going well!! If you ended up on another path, hope that’s good, too 🙂
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You're already a video essayist
You've been one since basically the beginning?
You always take the broader view of things. The reason your videos are far superior to CinemaSins is he deprives things of context but you revel in it. I'm always glad to hear your "final thoughts" on each movie because they're always about the entire experience and stuff.
Just because you mostly focus on what literally happens in the movie and look at it from a mostly chronologically-linear perspective doesn't mean you're not a video essayist, just one with a style different from what is "usual" (RE: Mikey, Lindsay)
Yeah but, Cinema Sins is Comedy, they have explicitly said thay are comedy and satire, its supposed to be kinda stupid.
This is how people misunderstand depression. Depression isnt caused by being sad all the time its the feeling of being numb and the feeling of "You should be happy and not sad cuz thats what u should be". Its important to know being sad is as important as being happy
when I watched Inside Out i noticed " this Movie's message reminds me of the message of another Movie, Song of the Sea." There, the "villain" is trying to stop emotions from afflicting anyone, though it's more centered about grief
I like this. Doing a in depth review, especially in your voice. If you are going to make this into a series, why not make a new counter. A learning counter, or understanding counter. Just an idea. Love your videos mate, and please do Braveheart, the Patriot or Wall-E. Wall-E would make a good video for this series.
Definitely Wall -E
i would fucking kill for a wall-e movie from cinama wins. heck even if sins makes a video on wall -e ill just be happy to know he has something to say about it
Wow, was it the overall comment or the Wall-E asking?
Can you do this with Kubo and the Two Strings?
Aidantc Yelsma I know your not asking me but I hated the film
That film does not get enough love
I thougth next week is Kubo
@keyan stoney why
Yes, please!
I wanted to add something you might find as an interesting connection. Throughout the film Riley is experiencing a breakdown of sorts, as we know, but I noticed how the outside person of Riley (meaning not her individual emotions) was shown (like in the classroom on her first day) in farther back perspective. In other words, what a viewer sees is no where near what is felt on the inside. When Riley was called to introduce herself a major emotional backfire took place and all the classmates saw were a few tears. The rest of the movie continues building on this until Riley takes the bus out of town, but each time what we see emulated within her mind is no where near translated on the outside of her person to other people. I find this to be especially interesting because of how hard communication can be between adults and especially teens and children.
Can you do a video on Children of Men?
Absolutely fantastic film, one of my personal favourites
I love that movie
god, the longshots in that movie!
how we got time to count everything great about Children of Men. CoM is the pinnacle of film as art.
Yes please
“What does ignorance is bliss tell us about knowledge?”
Beautifully said, and very true. Great video, good sir.
I think the lesson I learned was here was relationships others are the most invaluable thing in life. The way Riley’s expression of sadness towards her family, how they were able to relate towards her. I think the content smile during the hug was Riley realising all her core memories were made with her family. She realised they were her home.
I interpreted sadness being the mom's "lead" emotion correlating to how comfort and emphatic are almost a subset of sadness in this universe, and well moms are generally the ones that have that role in their kid's life. Similarly, aggression and competitiveness are subsets of anger in this universe, so Riley's dad being a businessman who has to be aggressive in his everyday life made sense having anger as his lead emotion.
I've always felt that sadness/sorrow is the most relatable emotion in the human race. It connects people in a way that anger or joy can't.
if you ever find another movie where you feel like you can do something like this again, then please do so. While I enjoy the heck out of your "surface look" on movies, my favorite part of your analyses is always the end part where you take a deeper look. So while I don't think you necessarily need to analyze every single movie this deep, i also want you not to be afraid of making these types ov videos then you find something to talk about. So then, thanks for the awesome content, and keep it up.
My friends and I usually have this “Talk” every weekend during sleepovers, we’d discuss philosophies and heartaches. I’m usually the “Therapy Friend” but I’ve learnt that sometimes I can cry around them and be vulnerable. Now it’s become a regular thing for us to talk about our feelings and it honestly feels great, to bond with each other and see that even though we’re all different there’s a sense of ‘we’re all the same’ buried deep down.
When I was a kid, I didn’t get the message of this movie at all. Now that I’m older, watching this movie makes me cry
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I just binged the entire lessons animation taught us playlist last night so happy there is another addition that too from one of my favorite youtubers
Thinking of Joy’s design, I like their choice of giving her blue hair - the same shade of blue as Sadness’ hair. I think it is a physical representation of the notion that “you can’t have joy without sadness”. Nice touch.
As always, Pixar’s storytelling (through the plot line, character development and visuals) FAR outstrips ANY OTHER COMPANY’S, and I think that that really shines with this film in particular. One bone to pick: although an excellent representation of depression, I feel as if they could’ve made the panel blacken slowly over the course of a few days or weeks, to show that the onset of depression usually takes a bit of time.
As usual, FANTASTIC VIDEO!
I love the message of this movie because it something we don’t hear much in the society that we live in. Often as humans we avoid sadness because we think it inhibits our ability to do what we’ve perceived as successful or cool or happy but as you’ve said it only makes those experiences more meaningful. As someone with clinical depression emotions ca be really hard, but the moments when im able to cry are just as important to me as the ones where I can smile. It’s an outlet of emotion that’s just as important at the others and just as necessary. Sadness is important. It is a motivator, it brings people together, it helps people grow. I definitely agree with your conclusion-being sad isn’t just okay, it’s vital
I am a singer at heart. This movie taught me a lot, and I’ve adapted to moving to England. People have told me what to do, I’ve had to grow, and change, but no matter what happens I am always a singer at heart.
JOY WAS SUPPRESSING SADNESS THAT WAS HOW SHE WAS CHANGING THE MEMORIES!!!
Sorry, had to get that out of my system
Interesting theory
I have 57 yrs of memories in my head. There's childhood, high school, college, the Army, first love etc.. and they're all bittersweet. It's what happens when there's more time behind you than ahead of you. I still feel joy when I remember but it's mixed with loss and sadness.
“Emotion is more powerful than thought; one must think on & of emotion to develop the multifaceted perspective necessary to conceive & control it.”
1) You are really smart
2) You're a wonderful writer
3) Thanks for getting me hooked on Mikey
I think when you lose something, the memories of that thing become sad. Riley is dealing with grief over her old life, and as time passes, the memories will slowly gain more yellow and become the awful yet wonderful emotion we know as nostalgia
That movie must be one of the best I seen in an really long time.. it still make me cry when I think of that moment when the child tells her parants all that is bad, and the parents just hugs her.
it still gets to me, even if I am 26 years old. it keeps making me cry.
I love Inside Out so much. Easily my favorite animated movie.
I love this so darn much bc this is very different from a lot of other youtube film review channels. Sure they can talk about how much they love the film or it can make them cry, but at the end of the day I always feel like something is missing. Your video fills that void. Thank you.
This movie, as someone who is on the spectrum, made me realize I did have emotions, it's just hard for me to express them the same way others do. Maybe that has more to do with my long-term depression that I suffered throughout middle and high school as well as some of college, but the fact that this movie had such an emotional affect on me was the very reason why it felt so good. It made me more comfortable in facing my depression with a recognition of me not being sad but rather apathetic to the world around me.
"Because there is sadness we can feel joy. Where there is anger, compassion is born" a line that has always stuck with me and is something that i sometimes need to remind me its ok to be sad, to cry and to be angry
I always found it weird how Joy was the only one who doesn't have their hair color the same as their skin. But I think that's what makes Joy "joy." It's because she does have a little part of sadness on her that allows her to be joy.
Just wanted to say that this is one of my favorite channels. I think that your videos are a huge boon for youtube, film criticism culture, and the lives of those who watch them. Your videos have more than once helped me to better appreciate the movies I watch, the skill taken to craft them and their impact on me. Your positivity and love can be felt in your work, and I appreciate it with my whole heart.
This video brought up some of those “core memories” that have always been happy and sad for me, this video physically brought me to tears, you should totally do more of these holy crap. Now I didn’t have a bad childhood by any means, but there was a point in my family’s life that was hell for all of us, and afterward I ignored all the feelings I had. I regret not thinking about it, I regret ignoring the sadness and terrible pit that it left behind. I’m still trying to get past it, and I think that’s why I connect with this movie so much.
I know I am late as hell but I am 14 (male) and I haven’t cried in 3 years I understand and have been told a multitude of times it is ok to drive but I don’t, I make myself not. This opened my eyes I have been told by family/friends but a respected 3rd party in my eyes like you saying this help. Thank you.
My mom tells me to control my emotions... I have depression and anxiety and BPD and I can't your channel helps me laugh
Isaac Foster i know its not asked for, but could I offer some advice on anxiety?
The best thing for anxiety is to take a second or two to breathe. Breathe slowly, in through your nose, out through your mouth. Maybe squeeze a stress ball in time with your breathing.
Its also important to balance how much you focus inward. Self pity just encourages negative feelings, but on the other end not taking a moment to be upset when you are just causes those feelings to build up.
This is what helps me at least, I hope it can help you.
What's BPD? I genuinely want to learn
I'm sorry you have to go through all that. Nobody should just be told to "control their emotions" when they have serious mental/emotional problems. It's so insensitive.
@@thepinkestpigglet7529 thanks for the advice
@@darkendheart1389 you don't have to be sorry
I don’t know about anyone else, but I wasn’t able to relate with Riley the first time around. I just thought it was a good movie that was really funny, and thought nothing more after.
Then I watched it again a few days ago, after a few months of living with relatives in a town I felt unfamiliar in still. Most of the movie was pretty much the same.... Until I reached the final scene and heard this line:
“I want to go home.”
This was the moment the tears started running, as I still missed all my friends I made before I left my old town. I missed the activities I used to do, the familiar streets I walked down, and generally everything about my old home. However, I knew there wasn’t any way I could ever go back to that, since things had changed.
Bravo, Inside Out. I’ll be showing this movie to any future family members and remember that final scene. 10/10
I already loved your Everythings about Inside Out, but this one really gives us your honest thoughts about this movie.
Joy still pisses me off. So. Annoying. Which is probably why she was written like that.
I find it kinda interesting about that, whenever I meet someone who is ALWAYS happy. I first feel unnerved like a way of, "this guy ain't right..." but it can go into a jealous "stop that...Noone is like that, I have never seen you sad, angry, or even scared STOP THAT!"
@@silverackerman394 that's true, but i'd find that just a range fron weird to creepy. What Joy (character) does, is forcing herself upon Riley's psyche just because, and refuses to let Riley be anything but happy. She is the vestigial incarnation of her childishness, more than of happines itself. And as children tend to be, she is incredibly selfish about it.
@@edoardoprevelato6577 that makes sense, it's kinda like how someone can personify depression and anxiety and get pissed at the mental illness not themselves, as "they" force fear/sadness (in general terms) onto that person
Right?
If you think about it, Joy is kinda like Woody.
Edoardo Prevelato
Inside Out is by far my favorite Pixar film to date. The story that's told is simple but really profound. And that end scene is just amazing. Brings me to tears every time I watch it. There is another scene where Joy is in the memory dump and she "rewinds" the memory and realizes that sadness is what brought the hockey team, and I love that scene. I didn't really know that sadness could have a positive role, and this film helped me discover that. So whenever I feel sad or stressed, I feel that it's easier to let out your emotions rather than bottle them up. Especially with anger. Great video, by the way. I really like your EGA videos because they go deeper than the surface level. You put a lot of thought into them, and try to see the positives in a movie that sometimes I believe doesn't deserve it. Keep making them!
Its okay to be sad
its not okay to stay that way forever or take it out on others
I don't feel like you get how.... emotions work. If someone is "sad forever" he needs help... and not hate. Telling him to "just be happy again" is not helping...
@@EinBick It's just a phrase my mom says when one of the foster kids is mad at themselves for crying. I know emotions have more than that like he said "its necessary to be and feel sad"
@@EinBick And the sad person can't take it out on others. What Abby M said was spot on.
Vinicius Raposo No. You misrepresented what Ein said. The latter third of Abby’s original comment is appropriate. The statement “it’s not okay to stay that way forever” is easy to construe as victim-blaming, which is never helpful and assumes that sadness persists as the result of a lack of effort.
@Amy Gradess An emotion comes from within... You can be nice to people and comfort them. But that won't make them happy or have good emotions. And blaming them for that is just wrong.
The year this movie came out I had to move away from my old home. It wasn't just a place where I lived, I grew up there, spend so many wonderful childhood years at that place, filled with memories about my already deceased father. I loved my old home so much so of course I felt sad and hurt that I had to leave everything behind but tried to keep it to myself. I didn't want to bother anyone with my problems.
And then I saw this movie and it really opened my eyes. Usually I am trying to keep my pain and sorrow inside myself but this time it was different. I opened up to the people I love and they were able to help me. I embraced the feeling of being sad for once and experienced, for the first time in my life, that crying is okay. I got used to my knew home really fast, I am actually happy now about this change and I do believe that Inside Out played a big part in this healing process.
That's Lord of the Rings! I know that paddle... Give me three hours and I can give you a timestamp. Wait... Better make that 10 hours. Once I've begun, I can't not...
Found it - it's 2:49:06 for the extended version
Wait, what scene? I was thinking Pirates of the Caribbean XD
@@doxazo5512 I was also thinking PotC!
I THOUGHT SO!
T0B1A541 naw that’s Jaws
I'm right there with alot of the people praising you and your channel. Your insight is so refreshing and such a WELCOME change to all the negativity. Can't tell you how much I enjoy your every word. Your obvious intelligence shines through the narration and is teaching me to appreciate not only movies but many things in new ways. Mostly movies though. Please never stop.
Since I'm also subbed to Mikey, I was *HIGHLY* confused for a second there!
God me too. I closed the full screen just to double check lol
😄Same! It got a good laugh out of me. Then again, there's something about Mikeys into that makes me smile.
3:06 A good point to this: when Fear tried to leave the same way Joy and Sadness got lost he literally couldn't. He just stood there as the rest of the memories got sucked up and past him as Disgust reminded him "emotions can't quit." This means that Joy and Sadness being not only able to but **forced** to leave HQ signifies that something was very wrong.
Oh my goodness. RUclips has finally given me CinemaWins notifications!
THANK THE RUclips LORD!
I am so happy that you've taken your format and grown so much with it. This is awesome, man.
Is that teaser a picture of one of the boats that Galadriel gives the Fellowship for their trip down the Anduin? OMG are we getting Everything Great About Fellowship of the Ring!?!?!?! This is going to be awesome!
Inside out can be one of the most important movies of all time. There’s no reason every kid should not see this. What a great video. More of this please.
I always think of Riley being the rationale and the logic, while the emotions make the snap decisions. This would explain why the emotions have such a presence in controlling Riley during the hockey game (instinct and reflexes taking over) while in everyday life, Riley has more control over her actions.
i didn’t realize how right you were about sadness and happiness being mixed, until a couple days ago, where i had a conversation with my friend about fear and anxieties about my identity, and i felt the closest i’ve ever felt to a human being, a sad moment that was happy because him and i shared our pain together
Thank you so much for talking about the difference between depression and sadness in Inside Out. I've seen too many people criticize this movie for portraying Riley as depressed when she was "just a rich little white girl with no right to be sad". This criticism not only furthers the tendency of so many to treat clinical depression like some kind of merit-based cred card -- which is total BS and a really dangerous attitude -- but the movie also just plain didn't do that.
I've always found it very interesting that both joy and sadness commonly make us cry. Even though sometimes they feel like such opposites. I should really watch this movie again.
You should do Song of the Sea. That's an animated film I think you'd like that needs more love!
YESSSSS it is one of the best animated movies I’ve ever watched, and the music is so amazing!
As someone who has had anger and depression issue for his entire life... I just gotta say this video was really well made. You touched on the topic of depression in a very tactful and tasteful way without downing on or polishing up the issue itself. Very very very well made video, looking forward to more!
wow...first time im watching a human on youtube...I mean man! can't even describe it, i been dealing with depression big part of my life and like you I thought that maybe having this channel and growing up having thousands of views will make me feel like I succeed it...I love your channel and hope to keep doing this for a long time! Thank you
It's strange, but I think this is my favorite video so far not because it was my favorite movie or that you made the most amazing points (i.e. sharing my joy of film), but it is because it is one of those rare and beautiful videos that remind you that it is okay to feel what you feel. Sadness is okay. Anger and fear and frustration are okay; what really matters is how you react to those emotions, and I think that is an incredibly powerful and underrated message.
I don't know if you ever saw much of the Mr. Rodger's neighborhood series, but one of the big things he cared about was teaching kids that it was okay to feel emotions and that they were not the only ones to feel that way. He wanted kids to learn how to find healthy ways of dealing with their feelings, and to me that is what this movie and (and your video by extension) are really about. Thank you so much for sharing!
I've had generalized anxiety disorder since I was a kid. Then I spent my whole adolescence relentlessly drilling the fact that everything is pointless and we're all going to die into my own brain, all while pretending I was fine so that no one would worry, which made me develop depression.
I'm 30 now, a college dropout, and even after going to therapy and taking medication, I still feel thoroughly broken and beyond help.
Don't give up. Things may seem hopeless, but as long as you're alive, you will never be beyond help. (Fuck, I wish I could give you some actual specific advice, but I'm no psychiatrist or even good at talking to people.) The brain is complicated, just because you haven't found the therapy/medication that works for you, doesn't mean it's not out there.
Sir, you have an acute understanding of emotion and maturity. It's really interesting to hear you talk about it in this context
You should do this with Rango.
I always liked it when you dove deeper into 'review mode' in your wins videos. Glad to see you're now giving it its own space and more room for reflection.
Next video is Fellowship of the Ring :)
I've been SEVERELY Chronically Depressed my entire life, and I'm autistic (or, as you said "on the spectrum") and I really loved your breakdown and personal insights on this. I love the way you drew a line between sadness and "clinical depression". I've been on a journey to watch all of your EGA videos, in upload order, but since this one was in the uploads list, I watched it, and you did a great job here.
Good to know that I'm not alone :')
This, this moved me to tears. You are an amazing man, everything you said was just right on point. Honestly i can say you taught me something. Especially about success. Ive always tried to live in the moment but always had that thought of if i get this if i do this i will make it like you said. This helps me now to put things in better perspective. And honestly the way you do this channel its like you are a father to us all. It comes through with everything you do and say. Thank you for doing what you do, and please dont hold anything back we all can handoe when you are not having a good time.
I just recently found out I have depression, and might have it for years without even realizing it. That compounded with my ADHD, and the stress of school and life, has had me at that place of not feeling for a while.
So thank you for talking about depression in that light, not just saying it's constantly feeling sad. It is always nice to hear someone explain why people have depression and not just writing it off as stress, or being a teenager. For the people who dont have depression it can be hard to understand what depression is. So again I say thank you!
Dozens of emotions? It’s well accepted in psychological literature that humans only have 6 inherent and independent emotions. 5 out of 6 were included in Inside Out, the sixth emotion being “surprise”. It’s actually more realistic with 5 emotions than with dozens. And what the movie shows is that those 5 core emotions, there is so much nuance between them which lead to more complex emotions and thoughts.
Dam, that last part, sadness makes us great. I’ve been struggling with depression for a bit now, and honestly I felt like I could not tell anyone , cuz I felt they would say “come on your just exaggerating” or “your dramatic”, so I kept my feelings to my self and I felt like because of this there was something wrong with me, but now, I’m glad I can feel comfortable with my sadness or depression. Of course, if I could get rid of it I would, but now I don’t dread it like I used to do, now I accept it , I am sad , and that’s okay, I won’t hide it and fake being happy, I will be my self and when I do feel sad , accept it and cry or do what I have to do to get through, but no more hiding. I’m glad I saw this video, and I really hope he makes more. Thanks cinema wins for this
That stuff you said about "ignorance is bliss, but what does that say about knowledge" (Knowledge is depression) is something I have thought over for the longest time as I go through existential dread and finding my tiny place in society and the universe. For the longest time, I have thought this was the reason that suicide, especially teen suicide has increased in the last decade. With the introduction of smartphones, the internet, and the ability to have any questions you could ask answered in just a couple of seconds has boomed our knowledge and understanding to the point that our emotions can't catch up and we become emotionally incapable of dealing with our own thoughts. Anyways, keep up the great work and keep spreading just a little bit more positivity.
It's so beautiful to listen to someone that loves films so much. Please keep doing videos like this, cheers from Argentina!
Hey Cinemawins, absolutely love your content, but you cannot deny the Return of the King!
There're a lot of wins to be had there.
I mean, he has to do Fellowship first, but nice quote lol
TrevorBOB What quote?
Sam Bridgers, “you cannot deny the return of the king”
Gandalf says it to Denethor
TrevorBOB Okay.
For me, this movie really hit home for a few reasons. The most significant of which is that as I've grown up (i'm 20 now) I've adopted a state of emotional apathy. I've gradually learned a "go with the flow attitude" which overall has made my life easier. However, just because it's easier doesn't mean it's better. When I saw this movie it took me right back to when i was younger and my emotions were so much more powerful and raw, and had such a bigger impact on my actions. I saw this in theaters and is the closest I've ever come to crying in a movie (the only exception being "Bridge to Teribithia" which I saw when I was about 6 i think). For the first half of the movie i was just kinda watching no emotions really attached. but as it went on, it had a way of bringing my dulled emotions back into focus and helping me see my emotional state. I was a huge wake up call, and i'm grateful for it.
personally i think a go with the flow attitude is still good to have. its about mixing that in with actually having your emotion. or at least thats what ive found
Plz do everything great about rise of the guardians
This was an excellent video essay. Thank you for your honesty. You reminded me that I've been dealing with depression for so long that my outlook is skewed for what "normal" should be. And that's a good thing. Because it means things can be *better* .
Everything great about Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049?
Nice! I know this is a bit divisive and sacrilegious to some, but I prefer 2049 a lot more than the original. Not that it was horrible, but I personally felt it was mediocre. A video of both, side by side, the great things about each one and seeing the themes from the original and sequel would be cool to see from CinemaWins.
This video really touched me. I am going through some really emotional times with some big decisions ahead of me and I keep trying to find ways to fight what I'm feeling, yet when I do get the chance to be by myself, and I let my sadness out, I come out of the other side feeling like I learned something new about myself. How much I cared about someone or how I tend to react to certain situations. Thank you, please keep the series going if you were planning on doing so
okay obvious reference to "Movies with Mikey" is obvious, but I liked to format, and would watch more videos like this, thanks for the insightful video!
It's actually something that Mikey asked other people to do in one of his more recent videos.
Beautifully said. Pete Docter is a true genius... The scene with Mom thanking Riley for being happy in a hard time for the family -- it was put in and taken out a few times in the development process. For me it was essential. Every parent has (mistakenly) done it and we do want our kids to be happy - for them and for us cause, if we are deeply honest, a happy kid is a whole lot easier to deal with. (and their emotions that aren't happy can trigger our emotions--- we become unregulated emotionally and then down into the rabbit hole we go). This scene is also about where joy gets her idea that she is in charge - that Riley must stay happy (which drives her the whole movie). .... I had a Dad come up to me at an event and tell me that Inside Out taught him how to be a better parent. I was touched until he added "now when she's sad I just say "hey get Joy back on the controls" -- ah. Okay. That is the OPPOSITE of what the film was trying to say...One last thing - re teaching your son at an early age, when emotions are binary. My understanding is that at an early age you do what Sadness did with Bing Bong. You mirror back the emotion so that your son knows how to identify the emotion he is feeling. And accept it as a part of him. Let him have it. That alone is a huge step in emotional development.
That dragons are awesome and also really cute! Jk. Seriously though, you should do httyd dragon 2 for an EGA video. It would be so good😃
YASSS HTTYD 2!
Well the 3rd movie will becoming out soon. Perfect time to do the second movie.
Seconded
wait you seconded the second well i second your seconding of the second
I have commented this on a few of his videos previously and im glad that im not the only one who wants it!
That "roll the credits" at the beginning. Top notch!!!
Could you do one with Coco cuz it has a very good message at the end
@TheoneFreeCakePro I think they meant an in-depth breakdown, not just an Everything Great About
I like that idea! Especially considering how seemingly everyone nowadays pushes, "Be yourself. Do what you want. Nothing else matters. You come first. If you just believe, everything will work out. You can be whatever you want, no matter what little effort you contribute." While none of these are necessarily bad when placed in their correct context, it's so tiring to hear all the time. I like that Coco puts emphasis on prioritizing. Some things come first, and they aren't necessarily your dreams. The importance of family is so often overlooked.
I am really glad that you talked about how the Mum asked Riley to be happy and how bad that can be for your child. I've been told, 'no one will want to be friends with someone who's sad' and everytime I expressed an emotion that wasn't joy, the perople I are about would suffer. This was as a child, like 8 or 9 and since then, almost 10 years later, I live by that unconsciously. I hide my emotions so well that I don't realise until I can't anymore which results in me freaking out and having to apologise for feeling cause I said one or two things about something the other person was doing to me. (Verbally) Which makes me even more scared to confront others. So yes, I really am quite glad that you, Pixar and the many people in the comments who recognised that saying (through words or actions) one thing about faking an emotion is damaging to someone who depends/trusts you.
(Also, I am not just talking. I was clinically diagnosed with depression at 8 and have been in and out of therapy since, especially since I developed a social anxiety disorder.)
Thank you for mentioning people on the spectrum! For me, the movie was actually very relatable. I am autistic and have what I'd describe as a medium degree of alexithymia (I can't identify nuanced emotions), so for me having these broad categories of emotions made total sense. I get anger and sadness and joy and disgust... I get the broad categories, and I get the mix of them, it made total sense to me, and I loved the visualisation of it all. I rationally understand different emotions, like when I read about them, they make sense to me, I just can't identify them when I feel them and have trouble identifying them in other people. At the same time, with the basic emotions like sadness or anger or happiness, like many autistic people I display hyperempathy, which essentially means that if someone is crying, I also start crying and may even feel very sad, I kind of... take over other people's emotions (if they're strong and basic enough), like my brain over-compensates for not getting the more nuanced emotions.
Thank you for making this, and for the amazing work you do on your channel. People consume so much media these days and rarely stop to really think about what they are ingesting. I'm so glad creators like you are here to break down what we watch and take time to think about what we are learning or understanding from our media.
I'm not usually the one to figure out the movie frames he uses but YOU GUYS THAT'S LORD OF THE RINGS
you sure? it kinda looks like pirates to me but i have never seen LOTR sooooo :/
This essay brought me to tears btw. I've always been very empathetic and in touch with my emotions - especially sadness - but as I got older it started to feel less and less acceptable to be the way I am. And I was always labelled as too emotional by friends and family, so I started to think it was a bad thing. Only recently, after seeking counselling, did I re-learn that it's okay to be sad.
That last picture...is that Lord of the Rings? The sparkle in the water makes me think so, but I could be wrong.
Please do more of these this was so good it brought me to tears