Top: Stills from ‘Ma Vie en Rose’ (1997). The anime film Paprika (2006) introduces hallucinatory settings which evolve to represent the dreams of its characters. In Ma Vie en Rose (1997), a painful piece about a child named Ludovic trying to deal with gender dysphoria, director Alain Berliner relies on brighter color tones to signify happier times, and bluer tones to suggest how Ludovic’s mood darkens as her parents try to force her to be the boy they think she is.
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Federico Fellini’s 1965 film, Juliet of the Spirits, a beautifully surreal rendering of the protagonist Juliet’s mind, accomplishes this by altering the landscape of the movie to outwardly represent her dreamlike visions and thoughts. Yet some films do manage to show us how a character thinks, and perhaps the better way to conceptualize this is in terms of how movies may do so. Scott, in his review of Inside Out for the New York Times, indeed begins with this idea: “Literature, the thinking goes, is uniquely able to show us the flow of thought and feeling from within, but the camera’s eye and the two-dimensional screen can’t take us past the external signs of consciousness.” The personified emotions in ‘Inside Out’įor some critics, there is a key difference between literature and film: the former can easily show the inner worlds of a character - their version of Inside Out - while the latter can’t quite get inside a character’s head, constrained as they are by the camera’s external gaze. Relatively few critics, however, have dealt with the books behind the kind of imagery we see in the film, specifically with the long, rich history in literature of portraying interior worlds - and how those may differ or relate to Inside Out’s vision of the mind. I fell in love with the film myself as it began, when composer Michael Giacchino’s gorgeous opening, “Bundle of Joy,” began to play. The film garnered substantial critical acclaim on its release and inspired a number of essays on both the neuroscientific and philosophical implications of its depiction of how our emotions work.
In Inside Out, the emotions of a young American girl named Riley (Kaitlyn Dias) become personified into separate, distinct characters - Joy, Sadness, Fear, Disgust, and Anger (played respectively by Amy Poehler, Phyllis Smith, Bill Hader, Mindy Kaling, and Lewis Black) - who literally navigate the evolving landscapes of Riley’s mind. Pixar’s best work, after all, like much of the best literature, explores both the inner and outer worlds of its characters, resisting the urge - more common in non-Pixar Disney movies - to reduce its characters into one-dimensional heroes and villains. Certainly, this is a question that many of the studio’s films pose. “Do you ever look at somebody and wonder, what is going on inside their head?” the first line of Pixar’s celebrated film from 2015, Inside Out, asks. Sign up for our newsletter to get submission announcements and stay on top of our best work.
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