An Analysis of Interpersonal Communication Concepts In the Movie Inside Out Monica Enriquez, Gerardo Espinosa, Clarissa Rodriguez South Texas College An Analysis of Interpersonal Communication Concepts In the Movie Inside Out According to Adler and Proctor (2011), it talks about responding to transgressions and some examples to that would be coming to an acceptance, rejection and discussion. In the movie “Inside out” we discover how all the emotions try to steer the way to control the little girl “Riley” mind but one specific character by the name of “Joy” is basically the one in charge of them all and tries to take on more of the responsibility in situations. Throughout the movie something happens to Riley and her emotions …show more content…
These habitual styles work sometimes, but they may not be effective in all situations" (page 383). Several conflict styles may not have good outcomes because certain ones lead to either one person not accomplishing their goals or in some cases both parties fail. In Inside Out Joy uses three out of the five different styles to attempt to control the conflicts that she faces throughout the movie. One of the first conflict styles Joy uses in the beginning of the movie is competing. This occurs when one person completes their goals and the other does not. Adler and Proctor stated (2011), "This win-lose approach to conflict involves high concern for self and low concern for others... competition seeks to resolve conflicts "my way" (page 386). In the movie when Joy comes in contact with a conflict she tends to react the way she sees fit. When sadness tries to touch one of Riley's core memories Joy immediately pushes her away and makes her turn her attention to something else so that she won't be in the way. By being pushed away this causes Sadness to be the losing party because she is not able to achieve her goal of having more input in Riley's …show more content…
This happens when both parties dealing with a conflict lose and do not achieve their objectives. According to Adler and Proctor (2011), "Avoiding occurs when people no assertively ignore or stay away from conflict" (page 384). In Inside Out Joy ends up falling into the memory dump where old memories are sent to be erased so that Riley could have more space to make new ones. Right after Joy reaches the bottom of the dump she has a moment where she gives up because it seems completely impossible to be able to get back to the top where Sadness is. This shows her losing because instead of immediately thinking of a way to get out so that she can continue to attempt to get back to headquarters, she instead gives up and focuses on the fact that one of her attempts failed. Meanwhile Sadness is alone, completely gives up, and runs away. When Joy gets out of the memory dump she finds that Sadness has left a trail of blue memories. After following the trail and finding her, Sadness asks her to leave her behind and to just go on without her. Sadness is also losing in this situation because instead of facing the conflict they were both in, she decided to avoid it all together and run
While Joy and Sadness attempt to make it back to headquarters, they are near a large pit in Riley's brain. Here memories go and disappear. This represents Riley forgetting events in her life that are not very important to her
The concept of acceptance of others was definitely present throughout the entire film, however the full effect and realisation of this concept didn’t come into play till towards the end of movie when I felt personally, a realisation sensation stuck. In the beginning of the film we are introduced to the characters who represent Riley 's emotions. Although each are responsible for certain areas of Riley in particular, it is strongly apparent that the emotion “Joy” is the ringleader within the group, and takes pride in being so. Joy however is a character that contradicts another one of the emotions - Sadness, as you would expect.
The film Inside Out tells the story of a young girl named Riley and her changing emotions after she is forced to move from her home town in Minnesota to San Fransico for her father’s job. The story is told from the perspective of her five emotions. Riley’s emotions are led by Joy, who attempts to guide her through the stressful event. Although Joy puts forth great effort, Sadness takes over. When trying to protect Riley’s core memories from Sadness, Joy is swept from headquarters through the dump tube and Sadness follows. With Joy and Sadness gone, Anger, Fear, and Disgust are the only emotions left in headquarters; therefore, Riley cannot be happy or sad. Because Joy and Sadness are absent, Riley’s personality islands diminish one by one. Riley fights with her family, pushes away from her friends back home, and loses interest in hockey. As Joy and Sadness navigate through Riley’s brain in search of a way back to headquarters, they encounter many obsticles. Back in headquarters, Anger, Fear, and Disgust place the idea of running away into Riley’s head. Joy witnesses the transformation of a sad memory into a happy memory, and finally realizes the importance of all emotions, including Sadness. With the help of Bing Bong, Riley’s imaginary friend, Joy and Sadness find their way back to headquarters and are able to stop Riley from running away. An update in headquarters takes place, and more personality islands develop. Joy learns to accept the
The movie puts the character Joy as the leader of all the other emotions in Riley’s brain and most of her memories are joyful, but when Sadness starts to
There are many ways to determine the meaning of happiness, the most important being the presence of sadness. Over the course of time, sadness has gotten a bad reputation in a sense that if someone if feeling sad, they must be weak or depressed. Truly understanding people have learned that when life gets difficult, one must handle their mental state in a healthy way and seek help or an outlet. The people who are unaware of this, may later become obsessed with a happier past time, and live the present in wistful manner. The movie Inside Out, by Disney Pixar Animation, deals with an 11-year-old girl named Riley, and her five emotions, during a rough change in her life. Through the character of Riley, and her emotion in command, Joy, we see how
The dominant emotion of Riley is happiness because Joy is the leader of the emotion crew in the control centre. Riley’s personality is shaped by her happiness. This fits
Inside Out is the story of a young girl, Riley, who is forced to work through her emotions when she leaves her old life in Minnesota for a new start in San Francisco. Riley 's Emotions are portrayed as little people inside her head and there are five of them: Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear, and Disgust. Three theories that have been discussed in class and that are present in the movie Inside Out are the Memory Consolidation theory, Wish-Fulfillment theory, and the Creativity theory. Another theory, that was not talked about in class, but is present in the movie is the Cognitive Appraisal theory. A more suitable theory for inclusion in the movie would have been the James-Lange theory of emotion. This theory would have helped clear up some of Riley’s more confusing memories showing emotion.
time and hadn’t quite made it to acceptance…It seemed like there was faulty wiring in the system because now she was reverting to anger” (Moore 76). Joys thought process here represents her grip on reality.
Everyone wants everyone to be happy, however, this persistence to always be happy takes a toll. The "manager" of the group, Joy, knit picks and contains Sadness's gloominess. Joy believes that she needs to keep Sadness's hands off of Riley's core memories. These memories are golden orbs that will be ruined if they ever turned blue. Joy, at one point in the movie, draws a circle on the floor and tells Sadness to stand inside it. She continues to tell Sadness not to touch anything because she could disturb the happy
As the film begins, it is clear from the start that the emotions care a great deal for Riley. As the primary emotion, Joy takes it upon herself to be the leader of the group and does everything in her power to make sure every moment of Riley’s day is a happy one. Sadness, voiced by Phyllis Smith, is not sure of her purpose in Riley’s mind, so her fellow emotions attempt to keep her involvement to a minimum, in fear of putting a damper on Riley’s mood. The rest of the emotions, Anger (Lewis Black), Disgust (Mindy Kaling), and Fear (Bill Hader), keep Riley’s life fair, poison free, physically and socially, and safe, respectively (Inside Out). A stand out character who appears is Bing Bong, voiced by Richard Kind, Riley’s imaginary friend from when she was a
In the Disney film “Inside Out,” Joy is the protagonist out of the five. emotions in the mind of Riley Anderson. She acts just as her name is- she strives to remain joyful and is always positive regardless of the situation. Joy does not ever want Riley sad, even when it is needed sometimes and because of this, she is the least flexible and most controlling of all five emotion characters: Sadness, Fear, Disgust, Anger, and herself, Joy.
Had I watched this Inside Out at different points over the semester, I would have been able to find different flaws each time. This movie is supposed to be about Riley, but it turns out to be centered around the journey that Joy and Sadness must take in order to return to headquarters, more specifically, it validates sadness as an emotion. Sadness spent her first eleven years with Riley being told to stay back and not to screw anything up, in reality, sadness is often frowned upon, because for some people, they are the opposite of Riley’s character. This movie shows that the happiest of children can go through life changing struggles and embrace their other emotions. You cannot appreciate being happy unless you have known being sad, this movie brings attention to the necessity of a balance in life.
Comparatively, another scene where it was evident that every emotion has a purpose is when Sadness and Joy finally returned to headquarters together. Sadness is the only one who can get the idea of running away out of Riley’s head. If she couldn’t feel eternal sadness within her own mind about leaving then she most likely would not have been able to realize the error in her ways and return home. The scene emphasized the importance of emotions as she would have been numb to the whole situation had it not been for her true feelings of sadness to
After that Sadness destroy also Riley’s islands memory. The headquarter room where they work in it crushed down because of Sadness mistake, then Joy and Sadness get inside Riley’s long memory and they cannot control Riley’s feelings and emotions because they do not in headquarters room especially Joy didn't there, she is the main emotional character in headquarters room as Joy knows how to controls Riley’s mood. And because of what was happening Riley’s behavior is getting so weird because Joy was not there in headquarters. And now fear, disgust and anger are the controllers in headquarters room so they cannot be like Joy each one of them have own emotion they can't exchange their emotions, hence in this moment when Joy is missing they have to pretend to be Joy they are trying so hard to make Riley happy. Joy and Sadness are trying to find the nearest way back and the only way is the islands but all islands are crushed down gradually. Joy on her way back she meets Bing Bong is the imaginary best friend to Riley, they are best friends and so much, so Joy take the chance and she asked Bing Bong to guide her to reach there. They are tried to across many dangerous ways to reach the train that get them back, during this time Riley is crushing
The film Inside Out (2015) produced and directed by Pixar Animation Studios and Walt Disney Pictures, is a movie based on the emotions of a 11-year-old girl called Riley. The film’s principal characters are five emotions located in Riley’s brain. These emotions are Joy, Sadness, Disgust, Fear, and Anger. All of them work together inside Riley’s mind to accomplish one goal: Her Happiness. Everything revolves around Riley because she is facing a hard move with her family from Minnesota to San Francisco, leading to big changes around his life, attitude, and behavior. Most of the movie is set inside Riley’s mind, where the emotions operate her brain’s control center. The film explains that our brain has functions that control our responses to certain situations, and the ways that we handle these situations are controlled by our emotions. Also, it explains that our personalities and identities are defined by certain emotions, which shape how we handle and express to specific situations. The decisions and actions that the emotions choose to do in Riley’s life will drive the plot. Inside Out (2015) will not only explain through its colors, lighting, and camera shots the storyline of the movie, but also the importance of emotions and how they play a big role in our lives.