The story is told by both inside and outside lines. The Story Outside tells the story of Riley, a little girl who grew up happily in Minnesota. Her family moved to San Francisco because of her father's job change. However, the new environment is not beautiful. Riley's discomfort with her new life and nostalgia for the past made her gradually fall into depression, sadness and anger.
Inside, I entered Riley's brain world. In the colorful brain world, there are five little people who are in charge of Riley's main emotions-joy, worry, fear, boredom and anger. The five emotional villains exert different reactions to Riley according to the changes of the external environment. Lele wants to get rid of the worries that will bring sadness, but the accident makes her and her worries leave the brain console and fall into the brain maze. Only fear, disgust and anger, Riley became a melancholy and angry child. In order to go back, Lele and worry began an adventure in Riley's brain world.
The best part of the whole story is the depiction of the brain world. The huge maze of memory, the core memory that provides energy for personality, the personality island that constitutes human characteristics, the imaginary friend popsicle, the thinking train, the dream factory, the subconscious dungeon, the fear clown, the French fries forest, the cloud town, the abstract thinking decomposition workshop, the abandoned memory processor ... everything is so incredible, but it is so reasonable. The film answers the question of how the brain works with vivid and concrete images. People have to sigh that a person's brain is really the most fascinating and magical world!
The expression of inner and outer lines in Inside out also deeply inspired my thinking about self-cognition.
In the story, after Riley came to San Francisco, he had to bid farewell to the past, his former friends and his accustomed life. Her memory is no longer only happy, but also sad. Lele thought that Riley's sadness was caused by worry, so she tried her best to eliminate worry and try not to let worry have a chance to control Riley. But what Lele doesn't know is that with Riley's growth, she can't stay happy forever without encountering setbacks.
We will eventually encounter all kinds of unpleasant things. When we are sad, we will vent it frankly. Don't suppress yourself, let alone try to force yourself to smile.
So at the end of the story, when other emotions were at a loss, only sad worries prevented Riley from losing control. Sadness is not a bad thing as we think. Many times it is an emotion that people need to cope with their living environment.
What's more, because of the sad mood, a person will have empathy for other people's experiences and sympathy for suffering and misfortune. Just like in the story, what trouble did to the popsicle that lost its "rocket" was impossible for Lele.
American humanistic psychologist Rogers said:
In the story, there are all kinds of "personality" islands in Riley's brain. The driving energy of "personality" islands comes from her core memory, which just corresponds to the meaning that "a person's personality is the sum of all his past experiences". In the past, Riley's memories were all happy and colorful, which constituted her character, so she was an optimistic and cheerful child. However, with the arrival of the sad experience, Riley's memory is no longer just simple happiness, but also sadness. This enriched her character and became an indispensable part of her character growth.
Wu Zhihong wrote in the article "The more you know how to accept, the more free you will be":
Riley resisted her new life in San Francisco so much that she missed her old life in Minnesota so much that she even collapsed because she was young. The more she escapes from the present, the more she tries to deny the fact that she can't go back to the past, and the more she panics.
Fortunately, Riley finally gave up running away from home and accepted the fact that he couldn't come back in the past. When she vented her tears, she completed her first spiritual growth. In the brain world, Lele also grew up, and she accepted and affirmed the value of trouble. From then on, she doesn't have to be Riley's number one commander, let alone force herself to make Riley happy-let her emotions adapt to the natural changes in the external environment, which is the meaning of their existence.
I want to have such a headquarters in my brain, where there are emotional villains who control all my emotions! Thanks to my Lele, who tried to make me feel happy in my life; Thank my sadness, because her sadness taught me sympathy and compassion; Thanks to my disgust, I won't be a self-righteous "virgin"; Thanks to my fear, although he was timid, he saved me from countless dangers; I also want to thank my anger. His anger made me not succumb to injustice, nor did I naturally become numb.
Whether optimistic or pessimistic, it is actually helping us to live with all our strength.
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