Ellie Harris
AP Psychology
Mrs. Cox
February 3, 2017
Inside Out Analysis Paper
Developmental stages
Riley starts out as a baby and slowly begins to grow in the movie. She moves from being a toddler and child into an adolescent/teenager. Finally at the end of the movie puberty is jokingly mentioned.
Universal Emotions
There are five universal emotions shown in the movie. Riley and her parents all experience joy, sadness, anger, disgust, and fear. The emotions are displayed in the form of colorful characters in their brain.
Forgetting
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
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The train comes to the headquarters at times, here we see the emotions and thoughts connecting. Riley's emotions effect how how she views her thought. Also, another example is sadness touching the memories making Riley think they are sad instead of the original happy thoughts.
Sleep and long term memory
While Riley sleeps her memories from the day are moved into her long term memory storage. (the memories are created using Riley's limbic system, visual system and her usage of hearing, emotion and language.)
Long term memory
Riley stores her memories on a shelf. This represents her long term memories. They are placed on the shelf so that Riley can refer to them at other times.
Short term memory
Rileys short term memory are the memories that don't last as long. This would be Riley's knowledge of her cognitive functions. Like Riley's reasoning skills and learning skills.
Explicit memories and Implicit Rileys explicit memories store facts and events the need conscious awareness. Rileys explicit memory could be an experience that made her scared of clowns. Her implicit maybe her actual fear of the clown.
Flashbulb
Russon’s definition of memory is not subjected to one main idea, but rather an intertwining of related ideas pertaining to experience. He views memory as, “What we experience as the determinateness of objects that communicates to us what we can and cannot do,” (Russon 41). To emphasize, we experience our world through interactions with the world’s objects. The contact made with these objects provides an identity for them that later communicates to us about ourselves. Russon present this idea of memory based on two types of memory, implicit and explicit. Implicit memory are memories that we remember in part, while explicit memory are those that we remember completely. An example that Russon gives in another instance that connects to this is the idea of him terminating his lease and having a few weeks remaining is inscribed in everything within his apartment. Each object represents the identity of the future commitment of moving whether pervasively or occasionally. However Russon thinks that for us to remember there are certain aspects that needs to be involve.
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The memories don’t hit as hard as she believes, but maybe that is because they aren’t the memories she is there to see.
Have you ever been driving down the road and have something bad happen to you that you have to slam on the breaks? If you have, then maybe you can relate to the following commercial. Even if you have never had this happen to you, you still might be able to relate to it. The basic idea of the commercial is that no matter what happens in life, that you should always be prepared for what to do next.
The film centers around Joel Barish, a shy, boring man and his love interest Clementine, who differs from Joel with her spontaneous and carefree personality. Through the idea of unrestrained technology, the film offers an alternative universe to the viewers where memories are no longer permanent. A company called Lacuna (appropriately named, as the literal meaning of lacuna refers to a gap or hole) offers the service of intentional and calculated memory loss. As the movie unfolds, Clementine and Joel’s relationship fails and they separate. Apparently too heartbroken
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Unable to process and exhibit her sadness about all these changes she pretends to be okay. Therefore Riley becomes anxious, irritable and angry, she gets into a verbal disagreement with her parents as well as her best friend, before shutting down and shutting people out altogether. The initial possibility of diagnosing Riley with an Adjustment Disorder gradually started to fit the criteria for a Major Depressive
For instance, the name of the character which represents and provide joy is named Joy, the same goes for Sadness, Anger, Fear, and Disgust. Each emotion serves a specific purpose inside of Riley’s brain in order to keep her overall emotion balanced. Mise-en-Scene is also reveals character through the color and facial expression of each character/emotion. Joy, the first emotion that is met is glowing and has a constant smile from ear to ear. Next is Sadness, she is short, blue, and looks like she is on the verge of tears.
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Memories are works of fiction, selective representations of experiences actual or imagined. They provide a framework for creating meaning in one's own life as well as in the lives of others. In Toni Morrison's novel Beloved, memory is a dangerous and debilitating faculty of human consciousness. Sethe endures the tyranny of the self imposed prison of memory. She expresses an insatiable obsession with her memories, with the past. Sethe is compelled to explore and explain an overwhelming sense of yearning, longing, thirst for something beyond herself, her daughter, her Beloved. Though Beloved becomes a physical manifestation of these memories, her will is essentially defined by and tied to the
She has the ability to retain memories that requires for the short period of time. For example, she is asked by the teacher to tell her parents that there will be a meeting then when she comes home, she immediately informed her parents.
Each emotion has a different job on Riley’s mind. The job for fear was to keep her safe. Fear also focuses on things that are going wrong such as problems. While disgust avoided Riley from getting physically and socially poison. Furthermore, the emotion of anger is in charge of making things fair. Finally joy is the emotion of being happy. Joy tries to cheer up Riley and keeps the other emotions under control in order to make Riley’s life go smooth. During the movie they also showed many memories Riley’s had while
Morrison uses the voices of two people, lost from each other in remembrance, and brings them together by juxtaposing memory against memory until finally their recollections converge in the same episode. After a sexual encounter, Sethe and Paul D reflect on their shared experiences in slavery at the Sweet Home plantation. It is against this backdrop that both characters struggle to tackle their feelings of inadequacy. Although Sethe and Paul D share their memories, there is only so much that they are willing to divulge since "[s]aying more might push them both to a place they couldn't get back from" (Morrison 72). While Paul's coping mechanism is to place all of his painful memories in the tobacco tin buried in his chest, Sethe's coping mechanism is prevention. The characterizations of Sethe, Paul D, and Sethe's daughter Denver continue through the use of flashbacks. By juxtaposing memory with scenes from the present, Morrison offers a better understanding of Denver and her reaction to Paul D. Lonely and troubled, she finds solace inside her own small world and connection to the memories her mother has shared with her regarding her birth. Denver feeds her hunger through these memories as well as through perfume and the boxwood arbor. It is in this first trimester that Morrison begins to connect imagery with the retrieval of past events. For all, the baby ghost acts as a catalyst for remembering the past.