That’s a movie where the message really did change my life. I used to think a good life was one without sadness, and now I know it’s part of life, and you have to learn to cope with it. A simple insight, maybe I had always known it, but the movie reinforced it. No happiness without sadness!
I was visiting with a therapist at the time and they were encouraging everyone to watch it if they could. It touched on a number of intrinsic but commonly overlooked things that most people never think about, but also went pretty deep into our current understanding of the mind in some parts.
I cringed at Inside Out. Movies where they have to explain and explain and explain all the rules of a made up world are not my thing. It’s all so contrived and that creates a distance emotionally for me. I would much rather have preferred an actual movie about teenage emotions without all the exposition necessitated by the contrived world.