This past weekend my family and I went to and saw Inside Out 2 though I enjoyed the movie I wasn't prepared for the deep but very necessary message in the movie. Anxiety. I went in not expecting much from the movie but I left with a new perception.
For those unfamiliar Inside Out 2 is about a girl named Riley who just hit puberty throughout the movie we can see into her mind and see her emotions. Now that she has hit a new stage in her life she receives new emotions one of them being anxiety. Since I don't wanna spoil the movie for you I won't give away specific details but in the movie, Riley experiences an anxiety attack because the emotion "Anxiety" was too much for her to handle and has taken over her life. This surprised me first because I didn't expect such a deep yet real topic to be depicted in a children's movie let alone a Pixar movie and secondly, it opened my eyes to how it's this is something that should have probably been around a long time ago. Everyone experiences anxiety and it's a real issue that people struggle with that most don't know how to handle. I think it is great that Pixar is trying to help by bringing awareness to it earlier so kids know what they are experiencing and make it seem less scary.
I personally experience anxiety and I wonder if maybe I had a movie like this would I have been better equipped and could get a better sense of my feelings. How do you think this would have made you feel as a kid?
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Hi Keon,
ReplyDeleteI went to go see it today with my family and it reminded me a lot of when I was a teenager. I related a lot to how anxiety made her feel as though she needed to change all aspects of herself in order to be liked by the girl she idolized and in order to make the hockey team. While anxiety can be good in certain situations and in moderation, when it gets out of hand it can be destructive in people's lives. If this movie had come out when I was younger, I think I would have felt a little less alone knowing more about how to keep anxiety at bay and not let it completley take over.