Pixar Island

Trystan 2021-10-19 09:53:07

Our generation grew up watching Pixar. But Pixar's story did not end up like the toys in "Toy Story": as adults, we still love these movies deeply. Because in simple child-style adventure stories, there is always a hand, which quietly reaches into the hearts of adults and strokes the head of the underage child who lives in it.
The most wonderful experience in Pixar movies is that you fall into sorrow in the first second, but you can laugh in the next second. After watching the movie, the corners of his mouth still kept rising, but he tasted a touch of bitterness.
But the last time I experienced this feeling in a Pixar movie, it was still "Up", and after the surprise at the beginning, it fell into a completely young cliche. I am really afraid that this process will become a microcosm of Pixar, because after that, Pixar's works such as "Brave" and "Monster Academy" can be seen, but there is no gentle hand that reaches into your heart. .
Until this "Inside Out", I have seen rave reviews at the Cannes Film Festival before, especially comments such as: "Interesting, but also profoundly sad, with deep thoughts about the world and myself." This is exactly what I want from Pixar movies.
As a result, this movie gave me more.
The story has a big brain-opening fairy tale color setting, but it is reasonable after careful thinking and even has a scientific basis. The children seemed to relish the various emotions in Riley's life and in the brain, but the adults who had experienced a little vicissitudes of life seemed to have an endless sourness and sweetness after a little thought.
From Riley’s emotional changes facing the new environment, to the operation of long-term memory and short-term memory, to the exquisite plot of growth accompanied by the eternal loss of some memories; “We need sadness, sadness can even be the end of happiness. "Lust", this expression is shocking.
At the end of the story, as Riley grows up, all memories are no longer black and white, no longer happy or sad, but a mixed color of various emotions intertwined. This is the best animation ending I have ever seen. It successfully externalizes the complicated, inexplicable, fascinating but mesmerizing complex changes of growth and life. The movie itself is like a colorful memory ball, there is no happy reunion, no tragic tragedy, like life itself, like growth itself.
Standing in front of the theater after the show, the complex but pleasant feelings can't dissipate for a long time. I think there must be a waterfall of colorful memory balls flowing in my heart.

There is a concept in the film, the core memory ball supports islands of memories. Thinking about it this way, we must also have a Pixar Island in our hearts, with the memory of our fading color in it. And like goofy island, all the replicas of islands that once existed but eventually disappeared. A good movie like inside out can make this island full of our most beautiful, unspeakable, and most complex emotions and memories run.
Will pixar island also fall into the landfill one day? My answer is that even if the Pixar company disappears in the future, I will try to keep the island in my heart.
We are an isolated island, but pixar island is not.

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Inside Out quotes

  • [Riley is on the verge of tears after attempting to run away back to Minnesota after feeling very homesick]

    Riley: I... I know you don't want me to, but... I miss home. I miss Minnesota. You need me to be happy, but I want my old friends, and my hockey team. I wanna go home. Please don't be mad.

    [Riley's mother and father stare sadly at their daughter]

    Mom: Oh, sweetie...

    Dad: We're not mad. You know what? I miss Minnesota too. I miss the woods where we took hikes.

    Mom: And the backyard where we used to play.

    Dad: Spring Lake, where you used to skate.

    [Riley breaks down in tears]

    Dad: Come here.

    [Riley, her mother, and her father all embrace in a group hug, consoling Riley]

  • Sadness: I'm too sad to walk. Just give me a few... hours.