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NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at for further information. Hope you can join us.Ĭopyright © 2015 NPR. It won the audience award and the grand jury prize at this year's Sundance Film Festival. How did that happen? Also, we hear from the director of the new film, "Me And Earl And The Dying Girl," Alfonso Gomez-Rejon. In all kinds of marvelous ways, "Inside Out" is mind-opening.īIANCULLI: David Edelstein is film critic for New York magazine.īIANCULLI: On Monday's FRESH AIR, Terry talks with comic Marc Maron about interviewing President Obama for Maron's WTF podcast, a podcast recorded in Maron's garage. But just knowing he's in there somewhere enlarges our sense of the vastness of the human mind. Bing Bong carries a trace of the melancholy of "Toy Story's" toys, who learn they have no place in a growing child's consciousness. I won't spoil the surprises which hit you around every bend, except to say Joy and Sadness meet an amiable, dopey clown called Bing Bong, voiced by Richard Kind, who was once Riley's imaginary friend. Joy turns out to be stronger and more stable with an awareness of Sadness. And that's what Pete Docter is charting, in the weirdest, zaniest way, without clunky therapy- speak, but for therapeutic ends - how haywire contradictory emotions can reassemble themselves into something adaptive. This is working.ĮDELSTEIN: You often hear the arc of a person's life is determined not by misfortunes but by how he or she responds to them. We'll be back to headquarters before morning. SMITH: (As Sadness) This actually feels kind of nice. POEHLER: (As Joy) So you know the way back to headquarters.
#The thought train in inside out....prime numbers manuals
POEHLER: (As Joy) The manuals? The manuals - you read the manuals. That's long-term memory, an endless warren of corridors and shelves. PHYLLIS SMITH: (As Sadness) Wait - Joy, you could get lost in there. Its walls are towers of balls glowing yellow, blue, green, red and purple. The long-term memory storage facility where Joy and Sadness get lost was inspired by a Jelly Belly candy factory and an egg processing plant. I can't think of one that doesn't grow out of insights into psychology or pop-culture or architecture. Much of "Inside Out" is an odyssey in which Joy and Sadness, having been sucked up a shoot and propelled to the far end of Riley's mindscape, must find their way back to HQ before Riley breaks down entirely. Joy is voiced by Amy Poehler, who is brilliant at conveying not just supernatural exuberance, but quavers of doubt that keep Joy from being cloying or cartoonish. It's going to be a new pop-culture touchstone. I think "Inside Out" will help sad girls and boys and the grown-ups who grew up from them and recall those feelings for as long as there are movies.
#The thought train in inside out....prime numbers movie
But then most of Pixar's movies are rooted in the pain of loss - loss of a planet in "WALL-E," a family in "Finding Nemo" and "Up," or just childhood, when the world seemed a simpler and more joyful place, in "Toy Story." Docter, whose last film was "Up," had the idea for this movie a little over five years ago after he saw his own 11-year-old daughter become sad, and tried to imagine how the world looked through her eyes. If that sounds serious for an animated comedy, it is. Riley is sinking into a swamp of despair. And Sadness is messing with core memories too, the ones that helped form Riley's identity. Sadness is fingering Riley's bowling ball-shaped, joyful memories, which regularly roll into headquarters, and turning them a melancholy blue. But with the move to a new city, the blue, bespectacled lump Sadness, voiced by Phyllis Smith, has begun to acquire more influence, to the consternation of golden-hued Joy, who is the movie's heroine. Each is human-shaped, only of different sizes and colors, and each is vital in keeping Riley safe and stable.
High in the air in a control tower is headquarters, where, stealing Riley's life, five emotions work in harmony - and not infrequently, disharmony - joy, fear, anger, disgust and sadness. It goes on and on with islands of memory, imagination and dream worlds and a train of thought that's an actual train.
Director Pete Docter depicts Riley's mind as a luminously-colored, sprawling theme park.
It's co-written and directed by Pete Docter, who made "Up" and had a hand in the script for "WALL-E." Amy Poehler provides the voice of Joy, who is the actual emotion joy in a young girl's head.ĭAVID EDELSTEIN, BYLINE: Most of Pixar's new masterpiece "Inside Out" is set inside the mind of an 11-year-old girl named Riley who's growing more and more unhappy when her family moves from her beloved Minnesota to a strange city - San Francisco. Film critic David Edelstein has a review of "Inside Out," the new movie from Pixar Animation Studios.
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