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I want a Disney Channel animated series like Buzz Lightyear, Emperors New School and the like". My biggest thought coming out of this was "I don't want a sequel. This movie trusts we (and Riley) understand this.
Too many movies give the sympathetic light to the parents and show they have perfectly good reasons for why they're doing this. So the audience doesn't get to know either. We're in Riley's perspective and Riley is too young to understand these things. I loved how we never got perspective on the reasons for the move or what issues the dad was having with his clients. What it means for every character to have a dominant emotion (Mom was sadness, dad was anger etc.) and how every emotion has a spectrum, so dad's "anger" was more of a control and justice than a rage, mom's sadness was more of a pessimism than unhappiness, etc.
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How the adults have councils but the children have wild and free emotions. My friends and I spent the entire evening discussing every little thing about the movie. That's not a bad thing, but it's a true thing, and you can't pretend that the joy still exists when everything that makes up that happy person from all those years ago is in a chasm with Bing Bong. All gone and never coming back and even the happiest memories are "tainted" by sadness now because that life is dead. All the friends I had, all the places I visited, even the connection I had with my family.
I moved from England to America 7 years ago and seeing that visual metaphor crashed through all the years of distance I have between my life now and the memories that built me as a person today. It was the final scene where Sadness took all of the core memories of MN and coated them in melancholy. I got into the car afterwards and just sobbed for a while. I cry a bunch in movies but only Big Fish and this one have wrecked me like this. Someone else said "I've not cried like that in a movie since Big Fish" and that's where I stand. But it did need a hero, and that hero was Bing Bong. The film's conflict was just so naturally and organically good, it didn't need one. Absolutely LOVED the fact that they didn't put in a conventional villain. I was practically convulsing and hoping someone would hit pause 'cuz I needed a minute. I was easily the oldest non-parent in my preview, but I cried so hard, dammit. It all seemed like they were setting him up as a villain.Īnd then, all of a sudden, BOOM. His outfit with the cut gloves and Hermione backpack, the blackness of the abstraction room, and how it looked like a trap for Sadness and Joy, his obsession with his memories with Riley, the way he seemed disappointed after seeing Riley's newer memories that he and Riley couldn't go to the moon since she was too big for their rocket. I don't know if this was intentional misdirection on the part of the writers or not, but I felt they put in a lot of elements in Bing Bong's character that seemed to suggest he was going to become an antagonist. It's necessary to grow from a child into an adult and it was a powerful message. All of it represented the need to grow up and part of that was that not everything is sunshine and rainbows but you need to embrace the good with the bad in life. The overarching metaphor of old memories falling to the wayside, being "dumped" in favor of new ones, the islands that made up her younger personality crumbling and being replaced by new "core memories" and islands to make her a more complete and mature person. I don't think it was because Riley's Dad had anger issues or her mom was unhappy all the time but more that those emotions matured over time to be something more than the base emotions of Anger, Sadness, Disgust, Fear, and Joy (they also never referred to eachother by name, meaning that they could have easily been more complex emotional states). Dad's HQ was run by Anger and Mom's was Sadness. The emotions in control of the HQs for Mom and Dad were especially interesting. It was an interesting way to display maturity without hitting the viewer over the head. I noticed, when seeing the HQs of other people, it was interesting to see that the emotions operated more in harmony with eachother and things seemed more organized with older characters whereas the emotions in Riley's HQ were constantly at odds, fighting over the controls. Some things I noticed that were especially meaningful to me:
The ending, not just with Bing Bong but also just where Riley starts crying and has that moment with her family had me choking back tears for hours afterwards.
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