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- 1:13Speaker 1: going to be talking about film and then we're going
- 1:17Speaker 1: to be talking about the sequel to that film. Because
- 1:19Speaker 1: these are films that decided to concern themselves with behavior
- 1:23Speaker 1: and human behavior, and that is sort of where we
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- 2:36Speaker 1: Good to know, but those are just holidays, that's what
- 2:40Speaker 1: we have to say about those. We actually are going
- 2:41Speaker 1: to be talking about this movie. We'll get more into
- 2:43Speaker 1: that in just a moment. And why, and I are
- 2:45Speaker 1: sort of already mentioned the why, but we'll explain as
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- 2:59Speaker 1: in February, we do want to take a moment to
- 3:02Speaker 1: acknowledge Black history a month by profiling a important person
- 3:06Speaker 1: that is the figure that stands out for this month.
- 3:09Speaker 2: Yes, so for today's episode, we are talking about Shirley Chisholm.
- 3:13Speaker 2: Chisholm Chisholm. She is a former US congresswoman and the
- 3:18Speaker 2: first black woman to be elected to Congress in nineteen
- 3:20Speaker 2: sixty eight.
- 3:21Speaker 3: Huge deal.
- 3:22Speaker 2: Her district was focused in Brooklyn and she served seven terms,
- 3:25Speaker 2: so she was around for quite some time. She was
- 3:28Speaker 2: also the first black candidate for a major party nomination
- 3:31Speaker 2: for She was nominated by the Democratic Party for presidential nomination,
- 3:35Speaker 2: so she was the first black candidate for any major
- 3:40Speaker 2: party nomination, which is super super powerful. She's well known
- 3:43Speaker 2: for her work and being a strong advocate against economic, social,
- 3:46Speaker 2: and political injustices, especially at the time.
- 3:49Speaker 3: So she was somebody who was very vocal and very
- 3:52Speaker 3: forward in the way that she was.
- 3:54Speaker 2: Approaching some of the concerns that were going on at
- 3:56Speaker 2: the time and just really kind of like a torchbearer
- 3:59Speaker 2: type of person in this in this space.
- 4:02Speaker 3: So we want to make sure she celebrated.
- 4:04Speaker 1: Wow, you did a phenomenal job with these profiles. I
- 4:06Speaker 1: love that you picked like vary in time periods for
- 4:09Speaker 1: them and totally different like professions and everything like this.
- 4:13Speaker 1: This is really good.
- 4:14Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you. I appreciate that. I was really I
- 4:16Speaker 3: was really happy to do that.
- 4:17Speaker 2: And you know, it's it's uh, I think it's so
- 4:20Speaker 2: it's so valuable to like, when you know, we have
- 4:23Speaker 2: something like Black History Month to take time to like
- 4:26Speaker 2: really dive into like more specific histories than just going okay,
- 4:29Speaker 2: well it's you know, here's Martin Luther King, and here's
- 4:31Speaker 2: you know, Malcolm Ax, and here's these folks who were speakers,
- 4:34Speaker 2: but there's so many other folks that were doing incredible, incredible,
- 4:37Speaker 2: powerful work that people don't talk about enough.
- 4:39Speaker 3: So I was I was happy to do that.
- 4:41Speaker 1: Yeah, and including outside of directly and direct involvement in
- 4:45Speaker 1: things like those social activism things. And not to say
- 4:48Speaker 1: that there's anything wrong with that, like we appreciate those,
- 4:51Speaker 1: but the fact that, like we've had someone on here
- 4:53Speaker 1: who is a doctor, and someone who is a politician,
- 4:56Speaker 1: and someone who was a civil rights advocate, and like
- 4:58Speaker 1: all of these are they're just people doing cool things,
- 5:02Speaker 1: and it's worth acknowledging who they were and what they
- 5:04Speaker 1: country did.
- 5:06Speaker 3: Yeah, and what they were doing too, like even just.
- 5:08Speaker 2: Their existence was resistance, right, so like resistance to social injustice.
- 5:13Speaker 2: So like even if they weren't actively doing something towards
- 5:15Speaker 2: social justice, they were doing something and really paved the
- 5:18Speaker 2: way for a lot of folks. I always kind of say,
- 5:20Speaker 2: it's like it's like when there's a news research line,
- 5:22Speaker 2: you know a lot of so much of it is
- 5:24Speaker 2: not that you're adding a brick to the wall. You're
- 5:26Speaker 2: taking a machete to the area to like clear out
- 5:28Speaker 2: the excess foliage to be able to even start building
- 5:32Speaker 2: and so of these folks were doing that. They were
- 5:33Speaker 2: taking a machete to the brush in the jungle to
- 5:35Speaker 2: really blaze that trail.
- 5:36Speaker 1: You know, it's a fun metaphor. Yeah, I thought so.
- 5:40Speaker 1: Speaking of fun metaphors, was that kind of a way
- 5:42Speaker 1: to segue to our topic today.
- 5:44Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 5:45Speaker 1: So we have actually referenced on this show the movies
- 5:48Speaker 1: Inside Out and Inside Out to before and previous conversations,
- 5:53Speaker 1: but we never really considered taking this on or talking
- 5:55Speaker 1: about it from a psychological and specifically behavior analytic personective
- 6:01Speaker 1: and so just sort of thinking about and even though
- 6:04Speaker 1: these have been out for several years now, thinking about
- 6:06Speaker 1: the fact that these these try to say something about
- 6:08Speaker 1: human behavior, and I think wanting to look at that
- 6:13Speaker 1: and have a commentary about that through sort of our
- 6:15Speaker 1: professional lens, and you know, just just have something to say.
- 6:20Speaker 1: And I also think it's like it's fun to talk
- 6:21Speaker 1: about movies, you know, I enjoy doing that. I think
- 6:23Speaker 1: people a lot of times like hearing about movies, particularly
- 6:27Speaker 1: movies that they like or at least are familiar with.
- 6:29Speaker 1: That's sort of what we're up to today is we
- 6:31Speaker 1: wanted to break down inside Out for this episode and
- 6:34Speaker 1: then for the next one. We'll talk about Inside Out too,
- 6:36Speaker 1: the sequel.
- 6:38Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, and we're gonna talk about the way
- 6:40Speaker 2: that the film depicts psychology and what they got wrong
- 6:42Speaker 2: and what they got right, and you know, it's I
- 6:44Speaker 2: don't think it'll take away from the magic of the movie.
- 6:46Speaker 2: I think the movie is still fun. Yeah, and we're
- 6:48Speaker 2: not gonna we're certainly not gonna go in and theyre
- 6:50Speaker 2: be like, well that's just at accurate.
- 6:51Speaker 3: Da da da dada.
- 6:52Speaker 2: Like you know, when we get into the abstract thought space,
- 6:54Speaker 2: it's like, Okay, well they actually went abstract art versus
- 6:57Speaker 2: abstract thought, and that's a different thing.
- 6:58Speaker 3: So but we we're not going to talk about that.
- 7:00Speaker 2: There are going to be spoilers if you haven't seen
- 7:01Speaker 2: the movie, and we're gonna describe kind of important plot
- 7:04Speaker 2: points and characters and beginning events from the beginning to
- 7:07Speaker 2: the end. But mostly we're just going to talk about
- 7:09Speaker 2: this movie and how the psychology of it is like
- 7:12Speaker 2: really fascinating, and how it will always make you cry.
- 7:16Speaker 1: It certainly will try, yeah, and usually succeeds. Yeah, it is.
- 7:21Speaker 1: I want to be clear, because like we are going
- 7:23Speaker 1: to criticize aspects of this movie, we are going to
- 7:25Speaker 1: point to certain things and say, like, this doesn't really
- 7:29Speaker 1: make a lot of sense conceptually, but I actually want
- 7:32Speaker 1: to start by pointing out, like I love this. I
- 7:35Speaker 1: love these movies. I really do. Yeah, they're incredible, even
- 7:38Speaker 1: if I think like the psychology is not spot on,
- 7:41Speaker 1: like I don't think that it needed to be, and
- 7:44Speaker 1: I am perfectly happy to enjoy these movies for what
- 7:47Speaker 1: they are. I think they're very well done. I've watched
- 7:49Speaker 1: them multiple times. It was fun to rewatch them for this, like,
- 7:53Speaker 1: I really enjoy these And the other thing too that
- 7:55Speaker 1: we'll get to this towards the end, is that even
- 7:58Speaker 1: if they're not technically recise, the metaphor in the way
- 8:03Speaker 1: that they depict things is so wonderful and so beautifully
- 8:07Speaker 1: done that there's a lot to latch on too, even
- 8:10Speaker 1: if you don't necessarily subscribe to some of the underlying
- 8:13Speaker 1: philosophy that guided some of the points and parts of
- 8:16Speaker 1: the way that things are depicted in the film.
- 8:18Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely, I think I think you're absolutely right.
- 8:21Speaker 1: All right. So the way that we're going to try
- 8:23Speaker 1: to approach this is we're going to give some just
- 8:25Speaker 1: a breakdown of things to know about the movie. Then
- 8:28Speaker 1: we'll talk, we'll do a plot summary of the movie,
- 8:31Speaker 1: then we'll sort of dig into our criticisms and then
- 8:34Speaker 1: really the metaphors that we think work really well and
- 8:37Speaker 1: how to interpret this metaphorically in a way that I
- 8:39Speaker 1: think makes a lot of sense. Yeah, I think that
- 8:41Speaker 1: sounds good to be perfect. All right, Well, let's go
- 8:43Speaker 1: ahead and get into it then. If you have never
- 8:46Speaker 1: seen this, Inside Out is a twenty fifteen Disney Pixar
- 8:50Speaker 1: animated movie that is written and directed by Pete Doctor.
- 8:55Speaker 1: His major credits are also largely Disney movies, including Monsters, Inc. Soul,
- 9:00Speaker 1: and Up Sure Sure Yeah, And it was co directed
- 9:04Speaker 1: by Ronnie del Carmen, who has largely been involved in
- 9:07Speaker 1: writing an art direction and has done a lot of
- 9:09Speaker 1: work at Disney, including on Wally Up and Finding Nemo.
- 9:13Speaker 1: And then there was a third writer, meg lefav I
- 9:17Speaker 1: think is how I would say that, Yeah, who's largely
- 9:20Speaker 1: known for and done work on storyboards and writing for
- 9:23Speaker 1: stories including The Good Dinosaur Captain Marvel, the first one,
- 9:27Speaker 1: My Father's Dragon, and As We Will See and the
- 9:30Speaker 1: sequel Inside Out too.
- 9:32Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 9:33Speaker 2: So the film is a tidy hour and thirty five minutes,
- 9:35Speaker 2: so it's actually like not one of those movies that
- 9:37Speaker 2: you have to worry about sitting and you know, planning
- 9:39Speaker 2: bathroom breaks four. You can just kind of like sit
- 9:41Speaker 2: and enjoy it in one sitting. And it tells a
- 9:43Speaker 2: story of an eleven year old girl named Riley. The
- 9:45Speaker 2: movie largely takes place inside her mind, which is seemingly
- 9:48Speaker 2: populated and controlled by characters portraying her emotions. I will say,
- 9:52Speaker 2: when this movie first came out, so my daughter's name
- 9:55Speaker 2: is Riley, and she is blondehaired and green eyed and
- 9:59Speaker 2: did not like broccol and so like it was one
- 10:01Speaker 2: of those things where we were watching it like oh, okay, yeah,
- 10:04Speaker 2: sure this is And especially when Inside Out two comes up,
- 10:06Speaker 2: which we'll talk about, I was like, oh, yeah, yeah,
- 10:08Speaker 2: I know the story. So it was really fun to
- 10:11Speaker 2: have that and see that a little bit as cool.
- 10:13Speaker 1: Yes, that definitely occurred to me. I haven't met your daughter,
- 10:16Speaker 1: but you've talked about her quite a bit obviously.
- 10:19Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
- 10:20Speaker 1: Anyway, although the story is about Riley, the main characters
- 10:24Speaker 1: of the story and the film really are her emotions.
- 10:28Speaker 1: The sort of primary main character is named Joy, the
- 10:31Speaker 1: emotion of Joy, who is voiced by Amy Poehler. Then
- 10:35Speaker 1: there is the emotion fear voiced by Bill Hayter, anger
- 10:39Speaker 1: voiced by Lewis Black, sadness voiced by Phillis Smith, who
- 10:43Speaker 1: people might remember from the Office Discussed, voiced by Mindy Kayling,
- 10:47Speaker 1: who's been on a ton of things but also the Office.
- 10:50Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
- 10:51Speaker 2: Some other notable characters are, of course Riley, who's voiced
- 10:54Speaker 2: by Catherine Diaz, Riley's mom voiced by Diane Lane, Riley's
- 10:58Speaker 2: dad voiced by Kyle McLaughlan, a wonderful imaginary friend character
- 11:02Speaker 2: named Bingbong voiced by Richard Kind.
- 11:05Speaker 3: Get some tissues for that one.
- 11:07Speaker 1: Yeah, seriously.
- 11:09Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 11:09Speaker 2: There are other voice actors including Poundstone, Bobby moynihan, Paula Pel,
- 11:14Speaker 2: Dave Goles, Frank Oz, Josh Cooley, John Ratzenberger, He's been
- 11:19Speaker 2: all of them, yeah, Carlos Ali's Rocky, and Flea of
- 11:23Speaker 2: the Redout Chili Peppers.
- 11:24Speaker 3: So lots of people in these movies.
- 11:26Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, And I think some people did sort of
- 11:28Speaker 1: double duty on different characters, but that mostly wraps up
- 11:33Speaker 1: a lot of the characters that we do here from
- 11:35Speaker 1: at some point in the film.
- 11:36Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
- 11:38Speaker 1: The nice thing about movies is they're not usually interspersed
- 11:40Speaker 1: with ads. All Right, we're back. So we just sort
- 11:50Speaker 1: of were primarily highlighting the various people who sort of
- 11:54Speaker 1: were involved in this film. So for this next part,
- 11:57Speaker 1: we're going to do a quick sort of plot breakdown.
- 12:00Speaker 1: We are going to get into some specific details here though,
- 12:04Speaker 1: So as we mentioned major major spoiler morning, we will
- 12:07Speaker 1: talk about everything that happens in This movie. Is an
- 12:10Speaker 1: eleven year old movie, so if you haven't seen it,
- 12:13Speaker 1: go check it out, I guess. But anyway, things to
- 12:16Speaker 1: know before we get into it.
- 12:18Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, if you haven't seen it, I recommend going
- 12:20Speaker 2: and watching it before you finish listening to this because
- 12:23Speaker 2: I think you'll still appreciate it, Like I think, I
- 12:25Speaker 2: think either way you'll appreciate it.
- 12:26Speaker 3: But go watch it.
- 12:27Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean, this really is not meant only
- 12:29Speaker 1: for people who have seen it, but it's just we
- 12:31Speaker 1: really enjoy it and it's a strong recommend.
- 12:33Speaker 3: So yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure.
- 12:35Speaker 1: All right, So we'll give an overview of the plot
- 12:37Speaker 1: of this movie and then we'll break down the components
- 12:39Speaker 1: of it.
- 12:39Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 12:40Speaker 1: So the general overview follows a montage of so at
- 12:44Speaker 1: the beginning of the movie, there's a montage of Riley
- 12:46Speaker 1: growing up until she turns eleven, and we see sort
- 12:49Speaker 1: of the moment she's born and her emotions start to
- 12:53Speaker 1: exist up to sort of the point where we get
- 12:55Speaker 1: to where she is in the story. And what happens
- 12:58Speaker 1: is her family suddenly moves across the country from the
- 13:01Speaker 1: Midwest to San Francisco, and the move proves very challenging
- 13:05Speaker 1: for Riley and her emotional turmoil surrounding the move and
- 13:09Speaker 1: adjusting to the new city and in her new life
- 13:12Speaker 1: in that city. And that's like the context in which
- 13:16Speaker 1: the story is situated.
- 13:18Speaker 3: Yep, absolutely, So.
- 13:20Speaker 2: The story opens with baby Riley just opening her eyes
- 13:22Speaker 2: and seeing your parents, and we are we are zoomed
- 13:25Speaker 2: into Riley's head, where a blue haired yellow character materializes
- 13:29Speaker 2: out of nothing and approaches a small pedestal with a
- 13:31Speaker 2: single button, seeming to represent the reaction or a reaction
- 13:35Speaker 2: pressed by joy, which results in baby Riley giggling afterward
- 13:39Speaker 2: for additional emotions appear at various opportunities to respond to
- 13:43Speaker 2: a montage of childhood events like being fed broccoli, running
- 13:46Speaker 2: around the house, playing and getting good at hockey. One
- 13:49Speaker 2: of my favorite little details about the broccoli, by the way,
- 13:52Speaker 2: is like in different countries they replaced it with different vegetables.
- 13:55Speaker 1: Oh fun.
- 13:56Speaker 2: So like in I believe it might have been Japan,
- 13:58Speaker 2: it was like it was green peppers, and like some
- 13:59Speaker 2: other places, it was a different vegetable on the pizza.
- 14:02Speaker 2: It was not always broccoli to like be more culturally
- 14:05Speaker 2: like responsive to that, which I thought was cool.
- 14:07Speaker 1: That is super interesting. I did not know that.
- 14:09Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 14:10Speaker 1: Yeah, so a lot of opportunities, like when they're trying
- 14:13Speaker 1: to feed her broccoli and then Anger gets involved and
- 14:15Speaker 1: his head like turns into a flame, a tower of flame,
- 14:18Speaker 1: and he's like, get that away from me, and then
- 14:20Speaker 1: you know, baby Riley is screaming all red in the face.
- 14:23Speaker 3: Uh huh.
- 14:23Speaker 1: Yeah, it's very fun depiction of that. Okay, throughout the story,
- 14:29Speaker 1: the emotion characters, because all the characters represent the emotions, right,
- 14:33Speaker 1: so we sometimes will call them emotions sometimes characters. Yeah,
- 14:37Speaker 1: their understanding of what Riley's experiencing is depicted sort of
- 14:40Speaker 1: that as then like looking through a giant screen, which
- 14:43Speaker 1: I think is too sort of meant to be like
- 14:45Speaker 1: Riley's point of view. It seems to be Riley's vision,
- 14:49Speaker 1: and also they seem to have access to all of
- 14:51Speaker 1: her other senses at the same time, like what she smells,
- 14:53Speaker 1: what she hears, what she feels, et cetera. And their
- 14:57Speaker 1: control panel grows from that single button and into a
- 15:00Speaker 1: larger panel with tons of buttons, and they use those
- 15:03Speaker 1: to respond to situations with their own unique personalities associated
- 15:07Speaker 1: with their role as a particular emotion. They don't really
- 15:11Speaker 1: highlight what any particular button is supposed to do. There's
- 15:13Speaker 1: just so many buttons. They go around tapping things and
- 15:16Speaker 1: moving levers and reacting to stuff in that way. But
- 15:19Speaker 1: as you might imagine joy, the emotion Joy reacts with
- 15:22Speaker 1: happy enthusiasm, which makes Riley react with happy enthusiasm. Sadness
- 15:27Speaker 1: reacts with sadness.
- 15:30Speaker 3: Sure you get.
- 15:31Speaker 1: That's essentially what they do is there's a particular situation
- 15:33Speaker 1: and one emotion sort of immediately hops over and starts
- 15:36Speaker 1: pressing buttons in that then shows up as Riley's experience
- 15:41Speaker 1: in the situation. She depicts whatever that emotion is doing.
- 15:44Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure.
- 15:45Speaker 2: We also see that when Riley has an experience, that
- 15:47Speaker 2: emotion is recorded as like a bowling ball size glowing
- 15:50Speaker 2: glass like ball memory type of thing, like a Polanthior.
- 15:53Speaker 2: It's particularly important memories that are saved as special. These
- 15:57Speaker 2: are called core memories, and they form the foundation of
- 16:00Speaker 2: Riley's personality.
- 16:01Speaker 3: So these core.
- 16:02Speaker 2: Memories will eventually like they're kind of like how's it
- 16:05Speaker 2: a certain little thing, and that creates like the islands
- 16:08Speaker 2: of personality that are Riley's personality in the in the movie.
- 16:11Speaker 1: Yea, and the core memories have like a particular glowing characteristic.
- 16:16Speaker 1: Did you make a Lord of the Rings reference there?
- 16:18Speaker 3: With the I just did? Yes, I did?
- 16:21Speaker 1: That? Is that is a very apt description for those
- 16:24Speaker 1: of you who are familiar with the Lord of the Rings.
- 16:26Speaker 3: Yeah, the palt.
- 16:28Speaker 1: Here I thought they felt good. Yeah, yeah, no, that
- 16:30Speaker 1: was very good. So in in addition to that, Riley's
- 16:34Speaker 1: personality as represented as these sort of floating islands. There's
- 16:38Speaker 1: they're attached to the headquarters with kind of these cable
- 16:43Speaker 1: like things, but the islands themselves look like they're on
- 16:47Speaker 1: land that's basically just floating in air, radiating out from
- 16:51Speaker 1: the sort of main headquarters, the central control tower. They
- 16:55Speaker 1: depict a friendship island, a family island, a goofball island,
- 17:00Speaker 1: an honesty island, and a hockey islands. Those are the
- 17:03Speaker 1: core personality traits of Riley.
- 17:07Speaker 2: Yes, that's an important part of this discussions. We go
- 17:10Speaker 2: forward now once the major conflict begins, we get to
- 17:13Speaker 2: see a lot more opportunities to observe how things in
- 17:15Speaker 2: her mind re react to environmental situations and see how
- 17:19Speaker 2: various entities in her mind cause her to react to things.
- 17:22Speaker 1: Yeah. So, on her first day of school when she
- 17:24Speaker 1: gets to her new schools, because like most of those
- 17:26Speaker 1: movie takes place after the move, she is afraid of
- 17:30Speaker 1: things going poorly, and immediately her teacher calls on her
- 17:34Speaker 1: to introduce herself to the class. At first, she starts
- 17:37Speaker 1: talking about her life in Minnesota. She seems happy, but
- 17:40Speaker 1: then sadness emotion touches a memory that she was using
- 17:43Speaker 1: to tell her story, and she starts crying as she's
- 17:47Speaker 1: now thinking about how much she misses her hometown and
- 17:49Speaker 1: her friend's there. And because of this, for the first
- 17:53Speaker 1: time ever that we've seen and that Riley's experience, the
- 17:56Speaker 1: memory that she forms of this classroom experiences is sad.
- 18:01Speaker 1: It forms a core memory that is one that is sadness,
- 18:04Speaker 1: where all of her other core memories have been ones
- 18:06Speaker 1: of joy.
- 18:07Speaker 2: Yeah, and so the emotions desperately try to prevent Sadness
- 18:11Speaker 2: from touching other memories and also try to like bring
- 18:14Speaker 2: Joy back to Riley. So they're trying to stop her
- 18:16Speaker 2: from crying, prevent the core memory from becoming an establishes
- 18:19Speaker 2: a piece of her personality, and purge it from the headquarters,
- 18:22Speaker 2: and in doing so, Joy, Sadness, and a bunch of
- 18:24Speaker 2: core memories are accidentally launched out of the headquarters and
- 18:28Speaker 2: all the personality islands fall dormant during this time. It's
- 18:31Speaker 2: kind of like and you actually see the change in
- 18:32Speaker 2: rather kind of like she kind of like stops and
- 18:34Speaker 2: just goes oh and like becomes like very like neutral
- 18:37Speaker 2: almost when this happens. Yeah, so that's that's kind of
- 18:40Speaker 2: an interesting thing to see the inside in the outside
- 18:42Speaker 2: world of it, you know.
- 18:43Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, so sort of gets this sort of stoic,
- 18:46Speaker 1: numbish look and then kind of just stops reacting to things.
- 18:50Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 18:50Speaker 1: But yeah, so this this sort of kicks off the
- 18:53Speaker 1: main conflict of the story that is to be resolved
- 18:57Speaker 1: and all the sort of adventure that happens. And during
- 18:59Speaker 1: the scene we get introduced to a depiction of something
- 19:03Speaker 1: called the train of thought, which is a literal train,
- 19:05Speaker 1: because if you're making an animated movie, why wouldn't you
- 19:09Speaker 1: take advantage of that, right. We also get introduced to dreams,
- 19:13Speaker 1: which we'll later learn are created by a separate department
- 19:16Speaker 1: that like manufactures dreams, and we also watch Joy disable
- 19:21Speaker 1: the dream sequence and instead play a fond memory instead.
- 19:25Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 19:26Speaker 2: I also like when they are in the space where
- 19:28Speaker 2: they're trying to find their way out and there's all
- 19:30Speaker 2: the shelves of all the memories that are there. It's
- 19:33Speaker 2: kind of like they kind of like EBB and flow
- 19:35Speaker 2: and they kind of sneak around almost like the folds
- 19:37Speaker 2: of a brain, like.
- 19:38Speaker 3: The press of the brain, Like it looks like that.
- 19:40Speaker 1: Yeah, it's very circuitous, and it does look like they
- 19:42Speaker 1: intentionally made it look like the sort of soulcy and
- 19:45Speaker 1: fissures of a cortex.
- 19:48Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 19:48Speaker 2: Yeah, it's very very cool. We also get a hilarious
- 19:51Speaker 2: scene in which Riley is home from school. Only three
- 19:53Speaker 2: of the five emotions are present, and Riley is only
- 19:55Speaker 2: responding to our parents with anger, nervousness, and sarcasm, which
- 19:58Speaker 2: is really fun zoom into their into her parents' heads
- 20:02Speaker 2: with their own control panels and emotions, and when we
- 20:04Speaker 2: zoom into our dad's head. They're all watching a football
- 20:07Speaker 2: game and not paying attend to the situation at all.
- 20:09Speaker 2: And also all of our emotions, all of his emotions,
- 20:12Speaker 2: are shaped like anger, which I thought was really, I
- 20:14Speaker 2: think really important to note too, is like they went
- 20:16Speaker 2: into the dad's head and all of them, even though
- 20:18Speaker 2: they were different emotions, they looked exactly alike. They were
- 20:21Speaker 2: just different colors and they were all shaped like anger. Yeah,
- 20:25Speaker 2: and I'm almost positive, if I remember correctly, moms was
- 20:27Speaker 2: shaped like fear or moms were shaped a little bit
- 20:30Speaker 2: different too, but they were all the same shape as.
- 20:32Speaker 1: I recall, and I would have to go back and check,
- 20:35Speaker 1: but I thought hers were actually all shaped like sadness.
- 20:37Speaker 1: And actually it has helmed the panel for the most part.
- 20:41Speaker 3: For yes, you're right, You're right, it is yes, it's yes.
- 20:43Speaker 1: Which I think was also sort of a meta commentary
- 20:45Speaker 1: that wasn't I think it was meant to be subtle
- 20:48Speaker 1: and like you might sort of catch it if you
- 20:49Speaker 1: were paining close attention. Yeah, but it's very funny because yeah,
- 20:54Speaker 1: they basically having a conversation and dad sitting there and
- 20:57Speaker 1: the watching football, and then all of a sudden they
- 21:01Speaker 1: realize that there the mom is looking at him, and
- 21:04Speaker 1: so they turn off the football game and he just
- 21:06Speaker 1: repeats whatever the last he's like, so, how was your
- 21:08Speaker 1: day when that was like already a discussion they'd had. Yeah,
- 21:13Speaker 1: and this is this is funny, the really funny scene.
- 21:15Speaker 1: I don't think that we mentioned this any other time,
- 21:17Speaker 1: but really funny scene where they're like that one Brazilian guy,
- 21:20Speaker 1: we should have him, and they like play a memory
- 21:24Speaker 1: of him in her mind and they all sort of
- 21:28Speaker 1: sigh looking at this this handsome man. Anyway, So funny,
- 21:31Speaker 1: it's so funny. It's so good. And then like I remember,
- 21:34Speaker 1: like there's the dad does something he's like nailed it
- 21:37Speaker 1: in the they zoom into the mom's head and they're
- 21:39Speaker 1: just like.
- 21:40Speaker 2: Uh, yeah, it's it's really great. It's a it's a
- 21:45Speaker 2: really great commentary on like you know, when two people
- 21:48Speaker 2: are trying to like solve a problem and they're just
- 21:51Speaker 2: not on the same page.
- 21:52Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, there's completely on different on different wavelengths of
- 21:56Speaker 1: the thing. Yeah, for sure, we are on on on
- 22:00Speaker 1: different wavelengths with ads where we're just left off two
- 22:10Speaker 1: of Oroiley's emotions, joy and sadness, are out on their adventure.
- 22:13Speaker 1: The other three are back at the tower trying to
- 22:15Speaker 1: figure out what to do. Riley's having very unpleasant interactions
- 22:18Speaker 1: with her parents. So anyway, while that's all happening, joy
- 22:23Speaker 1: and sadness have to navigate the long term storage memories.
- 22:25Speaker 1: That was what you were describing, where was the sort
- 22:27Speaker 1: of snaking, winding storage. While these memories are these palanteer
- 22:32Speaker 1: balls of different colors and whatnot, and the workers are
- 22:36Speaker 1: going through and there are a lot of memories that
- 22:38Speaker 1: are grade out because they're basically fading with time, and
- 22:41Speaker 1: so the workers are purging the old memories, particularly if
- 22:44Speaker 1: they think they aren't important. So they're like they have
- 22:47Speaker 1: like all the presidents, and they're like keep Lincoln, keep Washington,
- 22:51Speaker 1: get rid of the rest, is like that sort of thing. Yeah,
- 22:55Speaker 1: And they also reveal at this point that the workers
- 22:59Speaker 1: will grab this one commercial jingle and they'll just randomly
- 23:02Speaker 1: send it to her mind where it'll play the jingle
- 23:05Speaker 1: on a loop. And so that's the sort of the
- 23:06Speaker 1: commentary that's really fun. It's like, why do you sometimes
- 23:08Speaker 1: have like a song that pops in your head and
- 23:10Speaker 1: it just won't leave ye? And it's like in this
- 23:12Speaker 1: in this depiction. It is because the workers who know
- 23:16Speaker 1: are responsible for purging memories, like messing with the people
- 23:19Speaker 1: at HQ and setting up there. And then we see
- 23:21Speaker 1: Riley who's kind of like humming the song under her breath.
- 23:24Speaker 1: It's a really funny moment.
- 23:27Speaker 3: Yeah, it's pretty great.
- 23:28Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a recurring gag too, Like it shows up
- 23:31Speaker 2: a couple of times, which is really fun.
- 23:32Speaker 1: Yes, exactly, matter of fact, even makes a brief appearance
- 23:35Speaker 1: in the sequel.
- 23:36Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 23:38Speaker 1: But anyway, they're out here and they're the dormant personality
- 23:41Speaker 1: islands though we saw go dormant earlier. Because of the
- 23:44Speaker 1: whole situation, they're starting to like crumble and fall apart,
- 23:48Speaker 1: and they're falling into this giant pit that is the
- 23:51Speaker 1: memory dump. So when they purge the memories, they also
- 23:54Speaker 1: fall into this pit, and the memories eventually crumble away
- 23:56Speaker 1: to dust like a fanos snap.
- 23:59Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 24:00Speaker 1: Spoiler for Infinity War, I guess.
- 24:01Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 24:02Speaker 1: Anyway, so that's where all the Islands are sort of
- 24:05Speaker 1: crumbling into this place as well.
- 24:06Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 24:07Speaker 2: Now in the Memories, as they're kind of running through
- 24:09Speaker 2: long term memory, they run into Riley's old imaginary friend Bingbong,
- 24:13Speaker 2: who's voiced by Richard Kind. He is a pink creature that,
- 24:16Speaker 2: as he describes, part elephant, part cat, part dolphin, mostly
- 24:21Speaker 2: made of cotton candy. He's wearing a patched up tweet
- 24:24Speaker 2: jacket and fingerless gloves and cries candy like.
- 24:26Speaker 3: He's pretty pretty wonderful.
- 24:30Speaker 1: He's very funny, and Richard Kine's performance is outstanding. It's
- 24:34Speaker 1: so good, yeah on this. Yeah, it's great, wonderful, wonderfully
- 24:39Speaker 1: designed character, wonderfully written sequence, the whole thing. But anyway, yeah,
- 24:43Speaker 1: so they have to traverse Riley's mind because they're trying
- 24:47Speaker 1: to get back to the headquarters here with the core memory,
- 24:50Speaker 1: and that brings them through this mental space. It looks
- 24:52Speaker 1: like a giant warehouse and it's got like those giant
- 24:55Speaker 1: vault door on it, and it's called abstract thought. And
- 24:58Speaker 1: when we go in here, the motions are turned into
- 25:01Speaker 1: versions of abstract art, following four stages. So there's non
- 25:06Speaker 1: objective fragmentation, deconstruction where their body parts literally fall to
- 25:11Speaker 1: pieces on the floor, flattening where they become two dimensional shapes,
- 25:15Speaker 1: and then non figurative representations where they become squiggles and
- 25:19Speaker 1: like basically random squiggles that are two dimensional.
- 25:23Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a fun sequence, but the irony is not
- 25:26Speaker 2: lost on me that it's abstract thought and they took
- 25:29Speaker 2: it literally.
- 25:30Speaker 1: Yes, like yes, yes, very good.
- 25:38Speaker 2: That was probably an intentional decision, I do think, yeah, yeah, yeah,
- 25:41Speaker 2: it would have to be right, Like it's just it's
- 25:44Speaker 2: given all the other things.
- 25:46Speaker 3: But it was a lot of fun.
- 25:47Speaker 4: It was.
- 25:47Speaker 2: So they get through this and they end up in
- 25:49Speaker 2: imagulation imagination Land, which is mostly being demolished, although there's
- 25:54Speaker 2: now an imaginary boyfriend making machine, which is fun and
- 25:57Speaker 2: this makes.
- 25:57Speaker 3: It, which is really good.
- 25:59Speaker 2: This all so, you know, it makes sense given that,
- 26:01Speaker 2: like you know, you're talking about this person's age and
- 26:04Speaker 2: they're starting to mature, and like this is so like
- 26:06Speaker 2: the metaphor of like somebody losing their imagination and creativity
- 26:10Speaker 2: as they age makes sense, right, Like if you're following that,
- 26:13Speaker 2: you know, which, well, I'm sure we'll talk about you.
- 26:15Speaker 2: Although there's now an imaginary there's that imaginary boyfriend making machine.
- 26:18Speaker 2: Bing Bong finds his rocket, which is a wagon powered
- 26:21Speaker 2: by song and shoots rainbows, but it is taken and
- 26:23Speaker 2: dumped into the memory dump, and we get another gag
- 26:26Speaker 2: where they board the train of thought, find bins of
- 26:28Speaker 2: facts and opinions, but can't tell the difference between them,
- 26:30Speaker 2: so they just put them all in the fax box.
- 26:32Speaker 3: Yeah, which is a lot of fun, especially for like
- 26:34Speaker 3: that age.
- 26:35Speaker 1: You know. Yes, they're like they actually spill them and
- 26:38Speaker 1: they're like, I can't they look exactly the same, Like
- 26:40Speaker 1: I just put them all the fax box. I was like,
- 26:45Speaker 1: that's almost a political commentary right there.
- 26:48Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, yeah, it's very subtle.
- 26:50Speaker 1: It's great and I didn't mention here, but the wagon
- 26:53Speaker 1: is like the rockets on the wagon are brooms, yes,
- 26:57Speaker 1: and the brooms out of the bristles of the brooms
- 26:59Speaker 1: at fire the rainbow and that propels the reocting forward.
- 27:02Speaker 1: It's very absurd and really fun.
- 27:05Speaker 3: Yeah, that's cute.
- 27:07Speaker 1: Okay, So they're they're traveling back. The train is headed
- 27:10Speaker 1: toward HQ. Things seem to be going well, and then
- 27:13Speaker 1: Riley goes to sleep and so the train stops. They
- 27:16Speaker 1: happen to be stopped on the train near the Dream
- 27:19Speaker 1: production studios, which are basically set up in this film.
- 27:22Speaker 1: They're depicted as like a movie studio lot, and so
- 27:26Speaker 1: they decide that they're going to use this as an
- 27:28Speaker 1: opportunity to infiltrate the dream and wake Riley up by
- 27:32Speaker 1: creating a super absurd dream sequence.
- 27:35Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 27:36Speaker 2: So Security catches them and throws them into the subconscious,
- 27:39Speaker 2: which is fun, but they unleash one of Riley's greatest fears,
- 27:43Speaker 2: a birthday clown, and she wakes up. This kick starts
- 27:46Speaker 2: the train of thought, which they are able to board
- 27:47Speaker 2: and start heading toward the head quarters. But Honesty Island
- 27:50Speaker 2: collapses due to the other motions decisions to have Riley
- 27:53Speaker 2: run away from home, which is intense. Yeah, the collapsing
- 27:57Speaker 2: island breaks the train rails and they fall back into
- 27:59Speaker 2: the back to the long term storage.
- 28:02Speaker 1: Now we sort of glossed over this, but essentially what
- 28:05Speaker 1: happened was all the personality islands are dormant. The three
- 28:09Speaker 1: emotions that are left, fear, anger, and disgust, are essentially
- 28:14Speaker 1: reasoning that the personality islands are formed from core memories.
- 28:18Speaker 1: So what they should do is have Riley go back
- 28:21Speaker 1: to Minnesota because that's where all of her core memories
- 28:23Speaker 1: were formed, and that will kickstart her personality islands again
- 28:26Speaker 1: and everything will be back to normal. That's sort of
- 28:29Speaker 1: the decision making here. So she's decided to run away
- 28:32Speaker 1: from home, very intense, very like, do god, why are
- 28:35Speaker 1: you doing this? Yeah, terrible decision thing because she's doing
- 28:39Speaker 1: that that's also further crumbling the islands. But of course
- 28:42Speaker 1: it seems to them like a good idea, and they
- 28:44Speaker 1: depict the idea as a light bulb which makes sense,
- 28:47Speaker 1: which they screw into the control panel and then once
- 28:49Speaker 1: it's screwed in, it lights up, and that's Riley's ideas
- 28:52Speaker 1: to run away, and then they can't get it unlodged.
- 28:54Speaker 1: It's like stuck in there, right right, Okay, So at
- 28:57Speaker 1: this point the train has collapsed, it's falling into the
- 29:00Speaker 1: bits of dumped memories, and Joy falls in there with
- 29:03Speaker 1: bing bong. It kind of looks like the way they
- 29:06Speaker 1: show this, it's like this gray there's just endless hills
- 29:11Speaker 1: of gray memories that are sort of fitting to dust.
- 29:14Speaker 1: It really kind of looked like the way they depict
- 29:16Speaker 1: Hell from the movie What Dreams May Come with Robin Williams. Yes, yes,
- 29:21Speaker 1: which was I mean, it was way darker and scarier
- 29:23Speaker 1: in that, but yeah, but you kind of had this
- 29:27Speaker 1: similar like vast open space where you also can't see
- 29:30Speaker 1: very far because the hills and everything's dark and gloomy.
- 29:33Speaker 3: Yeah, that was that.
- 29:35Speaker 1: Anyway, while they're down there, they have some important epiphanies
- 29:39Speaker 1: about while they're in the pit, about the importance of
- 29:42Speaker 1: all the experiences Riley has had and that Joy is
- 29:45Speaker 1: always just pushing for everything to be joy, but it's
- 29:47Speaker 1: actually important whether the experience was good or bad. They
- 29:51Speaker 1: all like play a role in forming who Riley is.
- 29:56Speaker 1: And while they're down there, they happen to find being
- 29:58Speaker 1: Bong's rocket, which was previously dumped into the bit of
- 30:01Speaker 1: the Abyss, and they're like, essentially, we can use this
- 30:04Speaker 1: to escape the Abyss because it's a rocket, we can
- 30:06Speaker 1: fly out of here.
- 30:07Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 30:08Speaker 2: After several failed attempts to launch out of the pit,
- 30:10Speaker 2: bing Bong sacrifices himself by throwing himself out of the
- 30:14Speaker 2: rocket so Joy can escape, and he fades away as
- 30:17Speaker 2: a purged memory, which is just devastating. Is one of
- 30:23Speaker 2: the It is one of the hardest scenes in a
- 30:25Speaker 2: movie to watch.
- 30:26Speaker 1: It seriously, like for a silly cotton candy cat elephant creature,
- 30:32Speaker 1: who is this imaginary friend. It is one of the
- 30:34Speaker 1: most gut wrenching things to watch. Yes, yeah, it's right, Yeah,
- 30:38Speaker 1: it's that special. Brand of Pixar sad that like it
- 30:42Speaker 1: just like it just hits you in a way. You're like,
- 30:44Speaker 1: good lord, yeah, this is just feels cruel. Yeah. They
- 30:48Speaker 1: specialize in the heart stabbing sort of. Yeah, emotional crippling scenes.
- 30:54Speaker 1: So that's that one. Okay, So they have escaped the pit,
- 30:58Speaker 1: I think we I don't think mentioned this, but at
- 31:00Speaker 1: some point in Imagination Land, Sadness runs off and they
- 31:04Speaker 1: can't find her. Joy has now escaped the pit. She
- 31:07Speaker 1: finds Sadness, who has left a trail of blue sad
- 31:10Speaker 1: memories because they're back in the memory storage and like,
- 31:13Speaker 1: Sadness just been walking around with her hand on the
- 31:16Speaker 1: memories and they're all just turning blue because they're they're
- 31:19Speaker 1: turning sad. So Joy follows those and through a series
- 31:22Speaker 1: of events, including a flying cloud of tears a giant
- 31:25Speaker 1: tower of imaginary boyfriends that Joy used from the Imagination Land.
- 31:31Speaker 1: It allows Joy to catapult off of a trampoline on
- 31:34Speaker 1: one of the islands and land at h Q, where
- 31:39Speaker 1: they're sort of clinging to the outside of the window
- 31:41Speaker 1: and Disgust uses Anger's firehead as a torch to torch
- 31:46Speaker 1: the windows of Headquarters, where they arrive back at headquarters.
- 31:50Speaker 1: Joy asks Sadness to take the reins of the control panel,
- 31:54Speaker 1: which has been shutting down, and that essentially kick starts
- 31:59Speaker 1: the panel back to life.
- 32:01Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah.
- 32:02Speaker 2: At this point, Riley gets on the bus and runs
- 32:04Speaker 2: home and cries to her parents about missing home. And
- 32:06Speaker 2: Riley gets a new core memory that is a mix
- 32:08Speaker 2: of joy and sadness, and that's going to be I think,
- 32:10Speaker 2: really valuable here In the next scene, we discovered that
- 32:13Speaker 2: Riley has now has all core memories that are a
- 32:16Speaker 2: mix of different emotions, and that emotions get a gigantic
- 32:20Speaker 2: upgraded control panel with a scary red button labeled puberty.
- 32:26Speaker 1: Yes and like a like a red alarm alarm sort
- 32:30Speaker 1: of thing. You'd said. She gets on the bucks, we
- 32:32Speaker 1: actually didn't mention. She gets on a bus to run
- 32:34Speaker 1: away from home. She like buys a bus ticket, like
- 32:35Speaker 1: steals money from Rom's purse, buys a bus ticket when
- 32:39Speaker 1: she's on the bus. She has that's when they get
- 32:41Speaker 1: back to HQ, she has this epiphany when Sadness takes
- 32:44Speaker 1: over and is like, no, this is a terrible idea,
- 32:46Speaker 1: And then she gets off the bus and runs back
- 32:48Speaker 1: home right maybe to make that clear. There's also like
- 32:50Speaker 1: she's ignoring phone calls from her parents at this point,
- 32:53Speaker 1: which makes that sort of a further crumbling family onland
- 32:56Speaker 1: and whatnot. Yeah, for sure, Okay, that's essentially the end
- 32:59Speaker 1: of the movie. What happens here is she's not back
- 33:01Speaker 1: with her family, she's joining a hockey thing. She's getting
- 33:05Speaker 1: back into hockey in San Francisco. And then we get arguably,
- 33:08Speaker 1: in my opinion, one of the funniest scenes in the movie,
- 33:10Speaker 1: where Riley meets a boy and the camera zooms into
- 33:14Speaker 1: his head and there all these warning screens flashing red.
- 33:19Speaker 1: There's an alert and of voices announcing girl, girl, girl,
- 33:23Speaker 1: and like warnings. The emotions and this boys head are
- 33:27Speaker 1: running around screaming, the emotion fear is on the ground,
- 33:30Speaker 1: cradling his legs, rocking back and forth, just sobbing and
- 33:34Speaker 1: sort of sob laughing and just like and just sheer terror.
- 33:39Speaker 1: It's just so so funny.
- 33:42Speaker 3: It's really it's really fantastic.
- 33:43Speaker 2: It's one of those things where you just go, yeah, like,
- 33:46Speaker 2: as somebody who struggle talking to girls when I was younger, Yeah,
- 33:50Speaker 2: that was like what I'm like, I get it.
- 33:52Speaker 3: That's that is also very relatable.
- 33:54Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, Like Riley hands them something and he just
- 33:56Speaker 1: stands there silent and says nothing, and she's like, hey bye, Yeah,
- 34:02Speaker 1: it's pretty great. Oh my god, it brought me so
- 34:04Speaker 1: much joy. That's such a good scene.
- 34:06Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 34:06Speaker 1: Yeah, but yeah, that's essentially that summarizes the plot. That's
- 34:09Speaker 1: everything that happens in the movie. So good time for
- 34:11Speaker 1: a headbreak. Okay, so we just finished summarizing the entire
- 34:22Speaker 1: plot of the movie through the majority of this discussion
- 34:25Speaker 1: so far, Let's get into some of the things that
- 34:27Speaker 1: I would criticize about how things are depicted in the movie.
- 34:30Speaker 1: And partially because it's you know, why we're here is
- 34:34Speaker 1: to do commentary on how we feel like this job
- 34:37Speaker 1: does and depicting psychological things, and I think also because
- 34:43Speaker 1: there are things in this that don't work super well
- 34:46Speaker 1: from that perspective. Now, to start with, this movie largely
- 34:50Speaker 1: espouses a psychodynamic which you might also call a Freudian
- 34:54Speaker 1: approach to psychology, and so just we're gonna disagree with
- 34:59Speaker 1: something and how they choose to do that.
- 35:01Speaker 2: Sure, sure, Sure. One of the things that we have
- 35:03Speaker 2: to point out is that emotions are not discrete, compartmentalized
- 35:06Speaker 2: individual entities, and of course, like anybody listened to this
- 35:10Speaker 2: knows that, like that's not going to be like that's
- 35:11Speaker 2: not going to be a surprise to anybody, you know,
- 35:14Speaker 2: I'd be concerned if it was. Yes, there also aren't
- 35:17Speaker 2: only five, although trying to enumerate them is really a
- 35:20Speaker 2: false errand they did consider other characters, but decided to
- 35:23Speaker 2: on Justify for the movie, likely to streamline and consolidate
- 35:26Speaker 2: the plot. The point being is that there are lots
- 35:28Speaker 2: of varieties and intensity of emotions that we can feel
- 35:31Speaker 2: in our complex nuance in dynamic, which I think is
- 35:35Speaker 2: also eliminated in the core memories. Having multiple emotions color
- 35:39Speaker 2: that experience, you know, so like they kind of undo
- 35:42Speaker 2: that like separate entities by having that mixture in the
- 35:45Speaker 2: core memories as we talk about it.
- 35:47Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, And I mean I think they the criticism
- 35:50Speaker 1: stands that like there it's not like there are you
- 35:53Speaker 1: just have this one emotion that's joy and sadness, and
- 35:55Speaker 1: you can have a little bit of those two things together.
- 35:57Speaker 1: I mean, it's just like there's so much complexity in
- 36:01Speaker 1: how those things can interact in reality as we're talking about,
- 36:05Speaker 1: and the way they show it. But just I think
- 36:06Speaker 1: to make sure that that's clear that people don't feel
- 36:08Speaker 1: like we just have these discrete emotions that exist, and
- 36:11Speaker 1: even eleven year olds are going to have very complex,
- 36:14Speaker 1: nuanced types of emotions of a wide variety across many,
- 36:19Speaker 1: many different things. So yeah, yeah, just the thing. Also,
- 36:22Speaker 1: I want to consider the homunculous nature of her emotions
- 36:25Speaker 1: as they're depicted and just like again understanding the liberties
- 36:30Speaker 1: that they take to tell the story, and that's fine,
- 36:32Speaker 1: but her emotions have their own personalities, minds, thoughts, motivations.
- 36:37Speaker 1: Then you then ask the question with a monculi, like
- 36:40Speaker 1: what controls those emotions, minds and memories?
- 36:43Speaker 3: Do?
- 36:44Speaker 1: We zoom into their heads and they have an arsenal
- 36:46Speaker 1: of emotions inside their heads and inside of the homunculi
- 36:50Speaker 1: inside their heads. The zoom of their heads, and there's
- 36:52Speaker 1: more homunculi heads like controlling their minds going on and
- 36:56Speaker 1: on down, just for an infinite regression that like in
- 37:00Speaker 1: side of every head there is more homunculi, and inside
- 37:03Speaker 1: of those homunculi, there's more homunculi. Like that's you kind
- 37:07Speaker 1: of have to interpret that if there is some mover
- 37:10Speaker 1: inside of her that like there's something inside of that
- 37:13Speaker 1: mover and like that's we would subscribe to the fact that,
- 37:17Speaker 1: like past your own skin, you have a single mind
- 37:21Speaker 1: that does not have entities that control that mind. The
- 37:25Speaker 1: mind is also just part of you, like you only
- 37:27Speaker 1: get one layer deep basically.
- 37:29Speaker 2: Right right, right, Yeah, it's just homunculi all the way down.
- 37:33Speaker 1: Yeah exactly.
- 37:34Speaker 2: The emotions actually react and cause Riley to react, but
- 37:37Speaker 2: they react to her actions and behaviors as well. So
- 37:40Speaker 2: what is the direction of the relation here, Like this
- 37:42Speaker 2: is just isn't how things work. We don't have emotions
- 37:46Speaker 2: puppetting us. Our emotions are behaviors. Our actions and emotions
- 37:50Speaker 2: are part of the same fabric of who we are.
- 37:52Speaker 2: They aren't different, They aren't divided just because they are
- 37:54Speaker 2: easy to observe or difficult to observe. They are still
- 37:57Speaker 2: part of our unique perspective and interaction with the world.
- 38:00Speaker 2: So like it's the directionality of this is a little
- 38:03Speaker 2: bit off.
- 38:04Speaker 1: Yeah, and just to the way that it picked it,
- 38:06Speaker 1: like it's very strange. And then like it doesn't really
- 38:09Speaker 1: make sense that our emotions could just stop existing or
- 38:12Speaker 1: that our personalities could just crumble into pieces, Like right,
- 38:17Speaker 1: what if, Like let's just imagine in this whole scenario,
- 38:19Speaker 1: like Riley's going through this traumatic event, and like in
- 38:22Speaker 1: the story, sadness and joy have been launched out of
- 38:26Speaker 1: her head, so presumably they're never at the control panel.
- 38:28Speaker 1: She's not gonna feel sadness or joy during any part
- 38:31Speaker 1: of this. She just gets fear discussed and anger. That
- 38:34Speaker 1: are possible emotions that she could actually feel. But like,
- 38:37Speaker 1: what if something awesome, just really great happened all of
- 38:41Speaker 1: the sudden and she was happy, Like, would joy just
- 38:45Speaker 1: manifest back at the headquarters? Would she like be would
- 38:49Speaker 1: she not feel joy even though she's actually joyful. It
- 38:52Speaker 1: just doesn't really make conceptual sense that like that's how
- 38:56Speaker 1: it could possibly work, you know what I mean?
- 38:58Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, yeah, absolutely, yeah one percent.
- 39:01Speaker 2: Also, I think another point of this is like our
- 39:03Speaker 2: memories aren't really stored, at least not in the way
- 39:06Speaker 2: and depict that there's depicted in the movie. We discussed
- 39:09Speaker 2: memories before, But memories are effectively the context cues technically
- 39:13Speaker 2: is stimulus control. And what we understand of memory, that is,
- 39:16Speaker 2: we remember when cues present features in which we have
- 39:19Speaker 2: some history. When we remember, we recreate that memory, don't
- 39:23Speaker 2: just play it over and over and over again. It's
- 39:25Speaker 2: not like we can take it and go, Okay, here's
- 39:27Speaker 2: the file for this, and I can repeat watch this.
- 39:29Speaker 3: It's like we play.
- 39:29Speaker 2: It over and over and over again, and the act
- 39:31Speaker 2: you probably add new flavor and details and you know,
- 39:34Speaker 2: variations of it as we as we think about it,
- 39:36Speaker 2: and then we recreate it with a new context that
- 39:38Speaker 2: experience in those filters, and it makes it so that
- 39:41Speaker 2: memory is not the same as it was the first
- 39:43Speaker 2: time you recall it.
- 39:44Speaker 1: Yeah, So without really knowing how language and communication might
- 39:50Speaker 1: work instead of on the other species, they certainly don't
- 39:52Speaker 1: do it the way that humans do it. R Like,
- 39:54Speaker 1: we have a very very unique form of communication that nobody,
- 39:58Speaker 1: no other animals seems to be able to do to
- 40:00Speaker 1: the degree or the way at least that we do it.
- 40:04Speaker 1: But because of that, with humans, we know that that
- 40:07Speaker 1: affords a particular thing with us, which is that things
- 40:10Speaker 1: can form cues for our memories that are not even
- 40:13Speaker 1: just things that we observe, Like we can experience a
- 40:17Speaker 1: queue that you can't even observe that can then essentially
- 40:20Speaker 1: trigger a memory, and those memories are as you said, like,
- 40:24Speaker 1: we essentially are like these cues all of a sudden
- 40:28Speaker 1: like fabricate that memory again out of our experience with
- 40:32Speaker 1: those cues. But it's a little bit altered every time, Yeah,
- 40:35Speaker 1: because they're not stored in this way and the way
- 40:36Speaker 1: they sort of depict them as like you pull up
- 40:39Speaker 1: this movie clip and it plays the scene, which interestingly
- 40:42Speaker 1: is not even always from Riley's perspective. So like also
- 40:47Speaker 1: that that's not how memories work anyway, just like a
- 40:50Speaker 1: thing to as we're going through criticisms, that's just not
- 40:53Speaker 1: really how those things are through the process where our
- 40:59Speaker 1: memories are essentially hell than the stimulus control they exist
- 41:01Speaker 1: in cues and contacts in our environments. We can recall
- 41:05Speaker 1: memories that were seemingly lost forever. Like this whole idea
- 41:09Speaker 1: of like purging a memory, it's not really a thing, right,
- 41:12Speaker 1: because if you do create the stimulus conditions well enough,
- 41:15Speaker 1: you can recall a memory that like only a very
- 41:18Speaker 1: specific set of cues could have possibly recalled. So for
- 41:21Speaker 1: all intents and purposes for you, that memory is gone.
- 41:23Speaker 1: But if you do create the right stimulus cues, you
- 41:26Speaker 1: can cause them, like evoke that memory to come back
- 41:30Speaker 1: and do that thing again. And the other thing that
- 41:32Speaker 1: can happen is like we can have memories that are
- 41:34Speaker 1: seemingly locked in and like super important and are there,
- 41:39Speaker 1: and then they're gone because we just never have the
- 41:41Speaker 1: cues again to get them back. And the other thing
- 41:44Speaker 1: that can happen too is like when we have we
- 41:47Speaker 1: can engage in memories that we never had before. Like
- 41:50Speaker 1: that's a very unique thing about with human language, is
- 41:53Speaker 1: that we can completely fabricate memories of things that never
- 41:57Speaker 1: took place out of whole cloth. There's a whole thing
- 42:01Speaker 1: that we need to talk about at some point about
- 42:04Speaker 1: repressed memories, where they're not actually repressed memories, they're fabricated memories.
- 42:09Speaker 3: Right.
- 42:10Speaker 1: It's convincing someone to believe that something happened that never
- 42:13Speaker 1: happened and then they experience it as if it were
- 42:16Speaker 1: a memory. It's a remarkable thing that we can do
- 42:18Speaker 1: that sort of thing. But that is a thing that
- 42:19Speaker 1: can happen. So this whole idea of like storing and
- 42:22Speaker 1: playing memories and like moving them to long term storage
- 42:25Speaker 1: and all of that, I'm like, that's just not even
- 42:28Speaker 1: kind of how they.
- 42:28Speaker 2: Work, right, right, right, absolutely, Also, and probably you know,
- 42:34Speaker 2: our biggest throw on our side here is there's little
- 42:37Speaker 2: or no explicit time given to the fact that we
- 42:39Speaker 2: learn from our experiences that the outcomes of our actions
- 42:42Speaker 2: shape our future decision making. There is little recognition to
- 42:45Speaker 2: the factors in the world that motivate us to do
- 42:47Speaker 2: things context create the setting events that make certain outcomes
- 42:51Speaker 2: and behaviors more or less appealing. You know, I think
- 42:54Speaker 2: that the closest they get is maybe personality island, which
- 42:58Speaker 2: would like explain, like, this is somebody's interests, and like
- 43:02Speaker 2: these are like expected behaviors underneath those personalities, Like there's
- 43:05Speaker 2: probably a little bit of that, Like we expect Riley
- 43:08Speaker 2: to be honest and do things, and we expect Riley
- 43:10Speaker 2: to play hockey, and like we like that's the closest
- 43:13Speaker 2: I think it gets, but it doesn't explain it like that.
- 43:15Speaker 2: It explains it as if they are like static personality
- 43:17Speaker 2: traits rather than and they start by kind of explaining
- 43:21Speaker 2: that they are they feel like static personality traits. Yeah,
- 43:24Speaker 2: and then by the end of the movie there are
- 43:25Speaker 2: brand new personalities.
- 43:27Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, very much. So. Yeah, like you could loosely
- 43:30Speaker 1: interpret some of the things they do as depicting that
- 43:33Speaker 1: process a little bit, but like you'd have to be
- 43:36Speaker 1: fairly generous with that interpretation. It's certainly not explicit, and
- 43:39Speaker 1: they never really show things that are like there is
- 43:42Speaker 1: a clear motivation that's happening here that could be biological hunger, sleep, Paine,
- 43:47Speaker 1: like extreme temperatures. That mean, now we have behaviors that
- 43:51Speaker 1: are engaged in seeking out an outcome that is like
- 43:54Speaker 1: attenuate or alter this this setting event that I find
- 43:57Speaker 1: myself in. That is a lot of how we experience
- 44:00Speaker 1: the world, Like how much of our behavior is just
- 44:03Speaker 1: around finding food too much? Like so much behavior, so
- 44:07Speaker 1: much behavior get food, and not that they needed to
- 44:10Speaker 1: depict that, Like obviously there is food in here, like
- 44:13Speaker 1: we do see it play a role, but there's very
- 44:14Speaker 1: little in terms of how our behavior is organized around that.
- 44:17Speaker 1: And again that probably would have been kind of boring
- 44:19Speaker 1: to watch, so I don't fault them for it, but
- 44:21Speaker 1: it is like a thing that is a realistic feature
- 44:23Speaker 1: of human behavior. Yeah, absolutely, there's almost nothing that really
- 44:27Speaker 1: depicts accurately how behavior sort of functions, and like getting
- 44:31Speaker 1: at that function piece. But this is a great opportunity
- 44:36Speaker 1: to segue to what I think is the beautiful metaphorical
- 44:41Speaker 1: depiction of how they show I guess psychology and behavior
- 44:46Speaker 1: in this movie, which has nothing to do with ads.
- 44:50Speaker 3: Nope, not that at this time.
- 44:58Speaker 1: Okay, we're back. We've been sort of unpacking many of
- 45:02Speaker 1: the criticisms we have, but I do want to actually
- 45:05Speaker 1: leave on the fact that, as we started with, this
- 45:08Speaker 1: is such a good movie. And I am even though
- 45:11Speaker 1: like the philosophy that supports our profession underlies my entire
- 45:17Speaker 1: way of thinking about how the world and like human
- 45:21Speaker 1: behavior works because it, like the philosophy is rock solid,
- 45:25Speaker 1: like it works every time, and it's pragmatic, it is effective,
- 45:29Speaker 1: it is correct. I've never seen it fail and I've
- 45:32Speaker 1: only ever seen it work right. Anyway, inside of that,
- 45:35Speaker 1: I think there is such a there's so many beautiful
- 45:39Speaker 1: metaphorical ways to think about behavior depicted in this movie.
- 45:42Speaker 1: And the art is gorgeous, the writing is fabulous, and
- 45:46Speaker 1: the metaphorical nature of the movie is beautiful and so
- 45:50Speaker 1: well done. And even though we criticize emotions as being
- 45:54Speaker 1: represented as distinct entities that cause behavior, we can look
- 45:58Speaker 1: at them through a lens of the interactive nature of
- 46:01Speaker 1: actual behavior, which is to say, our behaviors have an
- 46:04Speaker 1: effect on the environment around us, and that has a
- 46:06Speaker 1: sort of reciprocal effect on us, part of which are
- 46:10Speaker 1: our emotions. Our emotions are part of our behaviors, and
- 46:13Speaker 1: our behaviors are part of our emotions. Like those they're
- 46:15Speaker 1: all sort of running that circle, so like showing them
- 46:19Speaker 1: as like if you metaphorically think of our emotions as
- 46:23Speaker 1: these behaviors, and those characters are just sort of manifest
- 46:26Speaker 1: representations of that, then it's kind of a cool way
- 46:29Speaker 1: to think about the fact that our internal world is
- 46:32Speaker 1: part of our external behaviors as well.
- 46:35Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know, the arc of learning to accept
- 46:38Speaker 2: that some non traumatic adverse experiences can be important parts
- 46:41Speaker 2: of our lives and help us to learn and overcome
- 46:43Speaker 2: them is another interestingly constructed metaphorical depiction. I think that
- 46:47Speaker 2: that is such a great depiction of how circumstances can
- 46:52Speaker 2: be unique. I mean, like when people talk about, like
- 46:54Speaker 2: is something being bittersweet? Right, Like if that is not
- 46:57Speaker 2: the combination of joy and sadness together in some situations,
- 47:01Speaker 2: I don't.
- 47:01Speaker 3: Know what is right.
- 47:02Speaker 2: So, like you know, like or like you know, the
- 47:05Speaker 2: amount of times you've probably seen some like horrific event
- 47:08Speaker 2: that like you bonded with your friends and had some
- 47:10Speaker 2: joy over like that, there's fear and joy, right, Like
- 47:13Speaker 2: I think of all the times I was running away
- 47:15Speaker 2: from security guards and on the beach when we would
- 47:17Speaker 2: get kicked out of pools with my friends and like
- 47:20Speaker 2: we're you know, we're afraid to get arrested, but we
- 47:22Speaker 2: were having a good time. So like there is like
- 47:24Speaker 2: a mixture of fear and joy there together, right, Like
- 47:26Speaker 2: I think that, like there is such a beautiful that's
- 47:28Speaker 2: so beautiful to be able to say, hey, this thing, Like, yes,
- 47:32Speaker 2: there are times where you just feel pure joy, yeah,
- 47:34Speaker 2: but there are sometimes where that situation can also be
- 47:37Speaker 2: colored by new evidence later. Like I think of all
- 47:40Speaker 2: the times I had a great time with my best
- 47:42Speaker 2: friends and then one I lost one of my best friends,
- 47:44Speaker 2: Like now that's that comes with like a little bit
- 47:46Speaker 2: of sadness. So like even memories that you already have
- 47:49Speaker 2: can be painted with this like these different emotions later too,
- 47:51Speaker 2: which is really fascinating.
- 47:52Speaker 3: I think they did such a great job with that.
- 47:54Speaker 3: That was like probably my favorite part of the entire depiction.
- 47:56Speaker 1: Yeah, I actually do think that was really good because yeah,
- 47:59Speaker 1: it's like the memory itself you look at and it
- 48:01Speaker 1: seems like a joyful one, but like as in reflecting
- 48:04Speaker 1: on that memory, the new lens is like, this is
- 48:06Speaker 1: sad because it's a thing that's gone. And there's a
- 48:09Speaker 1: related way that like big epiphany moment, aha moment for
- 48:14Speaker 1: joy when she's clutching that core memory and she plays
- 48:17Speaker 1: it back and realized that parts of the memory are
- 48:19Speaker 1: already sad. Like the reason that it was joyful is
- 48:23Speaker 1: because out of the sadness came support from her parents,
- 48:27Speaker 1: which like resulted in her like overcoming that and making
- 48:31Speaker 1: a decision that helped her move along. And so the
- 48:33Speaker 1: memory is ultimately joyful, but it was because it was
- 48:36Speaker 1: a sad event to begin with, and she sort of
- 48:38Speaker 1: learned and group from it. But you had to have
- 48:40Speaker 1: that piece and so that whole just that's like just
- 48:43Speaker 1: it's not necessarily related to behavior explicitly, but it's the
- 48:47Speaker 1: metaphor of like being a human and experiencing human things
- 48:51Speaker 1: and acknowledging that like these were things that happened to
- 48:54Speaker 1: her that were they weren't traumatic, they were just sad,
- 48:56Speaker 1: And like I think there would be a whole nother
- 48:59Speaker 1: discussion to have having to be fair about like the
- 49:02Speaker 1: people who do go through actual trauma, and like that
- 49:05Speaker 1: also shapes who they are coming out on the other
- 49:07Speaker 1: side of that, right anyway, I do. I did really
- 49:10Speaker 1: love that and the way that they just show moving
- 49:12Speaker 1: on the growth of the emotions that are the characters,
- 49:15Speaker 1: the emotions, the self sacrifice of our imaginary friend to
- 49:18Speaker 1: fade to obscurity so that they can they can continue
- 49:21Speaker 1: to grow up. It's not like literally accurate, It's not
- 49:25Speaker 1: like we actually have to purge those parts of ourselves
- 49:29Speaker 1: or that they have to fade away in that way,
- 49:31Speaker 1: Like all of that stuff we take with us from
- 49:33Speaker 1: childhood become part of who we are as adults, even
- 49:36Speaker 1: if it's not very obvious, like they were stepping stones
- 49:39Speaker 1: that got us to where we needed to be, and
- 49:41Speaker 1: so they don't become purged, you know what I mean,
- 49:44Speaker 1: Like right sort of there, and presumably she would be
- 49:48Speaker 1: able to remember her imagine her friend at some point
- 49:50Speaker 1: in the future like a lot of people can, right.
- 49:52Speaker 1: It's just a nice way to show that aspect of learning.
- 49:56Speaker 1: I think, yeah, most definitely.
- 49:58Speaker 2: And also despite the video like quality that my the
- 50:00Speaker 2: way that the memories become colored with different aspects of
- 50:02Speaker 2: emotions is a fun way to depict the complexity of
- 50:05Speaker 2: memories and how they aren't one thing, and I love that.
- 50:08Speaker 2: Like one of the things they do inside of that too,
- 50:11Speaker 2: is like when they rewind the memory. If you rewind
- 50:13Speaker 2: it back a little further, it starts to change color too.
- 50:16Speaker 2: So even though that it was static to begin with,
- 50:18Speaker 2: you start to kind of see them as you move
- 50:20Speaker 2: through it, like, oh, like, if I spend a little
- 50:22Speaker 2: bit more time in this, it's actually a.
- 50:23Speaker 3: Little bit more complicated than that, which was a lot
- 50:25Speaker 3: of fun.
- 50:25Speaker 1: And it makes a lot of sense because most scenes
- 50:27Speaker 1: we see all or most of the emotions have the
- 50:30Speaker 1: control panel at some point when Relly's going through any experience,
- 50:33Speaker 1: so presumably she'd have all of those emotions as part
- 50:35Speaker 1: of that experience in one way or another, right, and
- 50:39Speaker 1: the various stages of it. But yeah, I love the
- 50:41Speaker 1: depiction of the relationship between the characters. I love their
- 50:44Speaker 1: willingness to forgive one another. I think it just shows
- 50:47Speaker 1: how well communication can help improve relationships and help the
- 50:50Speaker 1: characters work together when they're collaborating and being communicative and everything. Yeah,
- 50:56Speaker 1: so I think that if we let the characters in
- 50:58Speaker 1: her head the emotion and be sort of a stand
- 51:01Speaker 1: in for those experiences, then and for like her character growth.
- 51:06Speaker 1: Like that's that's a cool way to show that in
- 51:08Speaker 1: just a very unique interpretation.
- 51:11Speaker 3: Yeah, I think so too.
- 51:12Speaker 2: And the idea of significant event experiences shaping our personalities
- 51:15Speaker 2: is another really lovely metaphor. Like it's I mean, people
- 51:19Speaker 2: especially now, like some of the language of people are
- 51:20Speaker 2: using online is like what radicalized you? And that's like
- 51:24Speaker 2: another way to kind of think about this too, is
- 51:25Speaker 2: like what brought you here?
- 51:27Speaker 3: Like what made you who you are?
- 51:28Speaker 2: And you know, like we know it's all behaviors, but
- 51:30Speaker 2: like it's a nice way to think about like how
- 51:32Speaker 2: certain events led to you certain personalities and like, you know,
- 51:35Speaker 2: like if I had like you know, I think about
- 51:37Speaker 2: my personality Islands, I'm like, well, music would be one
- 51:39Speaker 2: of my personality itel Islands, Yeah, And I think about
- 51:41Speaker 2: all the things that led me there, right, like like
- 51:43Speaker 2: growing up listening to music and listening to the radio
- 51:45Speaker 2: and like having it at my house and playing music
- 51:47Speaker 2: and then my friends that are related to it, so
- 51:49Speaker 2: like all those things are there, but like it's a
- 51:51Speaker 2: fun way to think about it. But you know, I
- 51:53Speaker 2: think it's also important to like kind of say, like
- 51:55Speaker 2: it's a nice way to think about this and represent them,
- 51:57Speaker 2: but they aren't distinct, kind of like separate islands that
- 52:01Speaker 2: crumble away or simply spring into existence. Like there are
- 52:04Speaker 2: ways to visualize our actions and our personalities and all
- 52:06Speaker 2: that are guided by those important experiences that we have,
- 52:09Speaker 2: but they're not like separate things like they're like, you know,
- 52:12Speaker 2: personality is such an amalgamation of so many things together,
- 52:15Speaker 2: you know.
- 52:16Speaker 1: Yeah, And it's just like a description of what you
- 52:19Speaker 1: might expect someone to do in certain circumstances based off
- 52:22Speaker 1: of like your experiences with them, or like their report
- 52:25Speaker 1: of things that they think that they would do. Yeah,
- 52:27Speaker 1: And that's like how people have sort of taxonomized personality,
- 52:31Speaker 1: even though I take a lot of issue with the
- 52:34Speaker 1: idea that your personality can just crumble to dust. The
- 52:37Speaker 1: part of the film where that happens, I sort of
- 52:40Speaker 1: I could liberal I could talk myself into liberally interpreting
- 52:43Speaker 1: this as what it would be like for someone who's
- 52:46Speaker 1: in a super novel situation that like it's a context
- 52:50Speaker 1: they've never been in, in a situation they can't even fathom,
- 52:54Speaker 1: and because there it's so new, they kind of have
- 52:57Speaker 1: no repertoire to even bring to that situation, and they're
- 53:02Speaker 1: abandoning their values because they don't know what to do,
- 53:04Speaker 1: like they have no they have nothing to guide it here,
- 53:07Speaker 1: Like that would create a very new and somewhat unpredictable
- 53:11Speaker 1: range of behaviors that might look like very little of
- 53:16Speaker 1: their personality, like the repertoire that they have, the repertoires
- 53:19Speaker 1: that they have that would reflect that personality, Like they
- 53:22Speaker 1: might be engaging in so many new behaviors in this
- 53:24Speaker 1: situation where they just don't have a lot to draw
- 53:26Speaker 1: from that it looks like very different from how you've
- 53:29Speaker 1: otherwise thought about their personality, and so like you could
- 53:33Speaker 1: think of it as liberally representing that kind of metaphor.
- 53:38Speaker 3: Yeah, it's fair, it's reasonable.
- 53:40Speaker 1: So I don't know, I think there are a lot
- 53:42Speaker 1: of things in here that sort of worked for me.
- 53:43Speaker 1: I mean, the train idea like is silly, Like I
- 53:47Speaker 1: get why they throw it in there, and it's a
- 53:48Speaker 1: fun part, Like that's not how thoughts actually work, but
- 53:51Speaker 1: you know whatever, I don't know what are some other
- 53:53Speaker 1: parts or were there other parts that sort of stid
- 53:55Speaker 1: out to you that you like thought that way it
- 53:56Speaker 1: didn't really touch on yet that are worth addressing.
- 53:59Speaker 2: You know, I really loved the like outside of the
- 54:05Speaker 2: emotions part. I really loved the depiction of like the
- 54:08Speaker 2: family together, Like I thought that was really valuable. It
- 54:11Speaker 2: wasn't like a perfect family. Like it wasn't like mom
- 54:14Speaker 2: and dad were lined up and they were together and
- 54:16Speaker 2: they knew how to talk. Like they made mistakes and
- 54:18Speaker 2: they and then they like owned them and then they
- 54:20Speaker 2: came together and they tried to sort it out right, Like,
- 54:22Speaker 2: you know, I really loved that depiction of that families
- 54:26Speaker 2: aren't perfect even when they are good to each other.
- 54:29Speaker 2: And I thought that was really I think that's really important. Yeah,
- 54:32Speaker 2: because I think that you can see that, like parents
- 54:34Speaker 2: are human beings that mess up, and I think that
- 54:36Speaker 2: that was really I think that that's really a really
- 54:39Speaker 2: valuable message for kids to see, is that parents can
- 54:42Speaker 2: mess up and that's okay. That doesn't mean that it's
- 54:44Speaker 2: the end of the world.
- 54:44Speaker 3: You know.
- 54:45Speaker 1: That's a great catch. Yeah, because the fact that it
- 54:47Speaker 1: allows it a few brief moments to zoom into their
- 54:51Speaker 1: head and sort of get the perspective, I think helps
- 54:55Speaker 1: show that like everybody's kind of doing the best that
- 54:58Speaker 1: they can in the current situation. You know, sometimes they
- 55:01Speaker 1: zone out, or sometimes they don't say the right thing,
- 55:04Speaker 1: or they can't figure out or understand what's going on
- 55:07Speaker 1: with the other person. But they're all doing their best,
- 55:10Speaker 1: and like even doing their best, they make mistakes, and
- 55:14Speaker 1: so they they sort of I guess, navigate that in
- 55:17Speaker 1: the way that they that they do. But that's a
- 55:19Speaker 1: really good point that I think that it does show
- 55:22Speaker 1: like a dynamic that is I think pretty healthy, Like
- 55:25Speaker 1: it's it's people who are really working together even when
- 55:28Speaker 1: they are sort of butting heads. Awesome. I think that's
- 55:33Speaker 1: all I really have to say to reflection on this.
- 55:35Speaker 1: Any other parts that stand out to you'd like to
- 55:37Speaker 1: sort of comment on here.
- 55:38Speaker 2: I think, you know, to me, if I had anything else,
- 55:41Speaker 2: it would probably be related to like the second one
- 55:43Speaker 2: and how they blend together really well. I think I
- 55:46Speaker 2: would say just I recommend it, Like I think at
- 55:48Speaker 2: the end of the day, like, yeah, we have criticisms
- 55:50Speaker 2: about it from a psychology like anceptual standpoint, but like
- 55:53Speaker 2: also at the end of day, doesn't really matter, Like
- 55:55Speaker 2: it's a great movie and it's a lot of fun,
- 55:57Speaker 2: and I think it's worth Like it's not it's the
- 56:00Speaker 2: kind of movie that you would share with a psychology class.
- 56:02Speaker 3: And be like this is how it works. Yeah, but
- 56:04Speaker 3: like I think that.
- 56:05Speaker 2: You go back and say, like, these metaphors are important
- 56:07Speaker 2: and we should like have a conversation about how these
- 56:09Speaker 2: metaphors work and what this means for people. You know,
- 56:11Speaker 2: Like I think there's something valuable about that interpretation rather
- 56:14Speaker 2: than accepting it as like a factual conceptualization.
- 56:18Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right, Like I do. I do kind of
- 56:20Speaker 1: enjoy the idea the exercise of interpreting the metaphor is
- 56:24Speaker 1: is probably useful one from like a psychological perspective, particularly, Yeah,
- 56:27Speaker 1: if you're learning about it, we're thinking about like this
- 56:30Speaker 1: is not how it works, but that you can interpret
- 56:33Speaker 1: how things work by like zooming out and looking at
- 56:36Speaker 1: this from sort of a broader picture. Yeah, absolutely awesome.
- 56:39Speaker 1: All right, cool. I think that's what we have to
- 56:41Speaker 1: say about Inside Out our first time ever reviewing, like reviewing,
- 56:44Speaker 1: I don't know if I was reviewing. We were discussing
- 56:47Speaker 1: and sort of interpreting a movie. Yeah, it's just one
- 56:49Speaker 1: that like it really felt so close to home for
- 56:52Speaker 1: us because like we're psychology podcast, and this is like
- 56:56Speaker 1: a movie about what makes people tick, if you will, So, like,
- 57:01Speaker 1: you know, this feels in our wheelhouse and like there,
- 57:04Speaker 1: I've always thought, like there are things that would criticize
- 57:07Speaker 1: about how psychology is depicted, but I also like want
- 57:11Speaker 1: to point out that like it works very well as
- 57:13Speaker 1: a metaphor. Yeah, so I'm happy to discuss those things.
- 57:16Speaker 3: But agreed, agreed, All.
- 57:18Speaker 1: Right, Well that's a we're man. I think we're a
- 57:20Speaker 1: great making great time here. We are going to come
- 57:22Speaker 1: back in the next episode and discuss inside out to
- 57:25Speaker 1: the sequel to this because it continues to expand on
- 57:27Speaker 1: these and I think that'll be a fun time as well.
- 57:29Speaker 1: But before we wrap this one up, we will play
- 57:33Speaker 1: it boom. Okay, we're back. The way we like to
- 57:42Speaker 1: end these is by closing out with some recommendations. They're
- 57:46Speaker 1: not related to our movie right now. They're just some
- 57:49Speaker 1: things that we are going to recommend we found joy in,
- 57:52Speaker 1: or are their thoughts that we had that we just
- 57:54Speaker 1: wanted to share. Whatever it is, we recommend some stuff,
- 57:56Speaker 1: and we're going to do that thing. Before we get
- 57:58Speaker 1: to that, though, we are going to listen to credits.
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- 59:16Speaker 1: they're usually unrelated, but sometimes they're related. But that's that's
- 59:20Speaker 1: where we're are with that. Thank you so much to
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- 59:26Speaker 1: Thank you for recording with me today, Shane.
- 59:28Speaker 3: Thank you for making me watch these movies.
- 59:30Speaker 1: Hey yeah yeah. Thanks for taking on the extra homework
- 59:32Speaker 1: scientist time.
- 59:33Speaker 3: Yeah yeah.
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- 59:46Speaker 3: And master of ceremonies and all around fun guy.
- 59:50Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's all around mushroom. So that is the
- 59:54Speaker 1: thank yous. I think is there anything that I'm missing
- 59:56Speaker 1: or you would like to add before we transition to recommendations.
- 59:59Speaker 3: Nope, I think that covers it all.
- 1:00:00Speaker 1: Right, Let's get to one of the most fun parts
- 1:00:02Speaker 1: of any discussion, which is recommending some fun things.
- 1:00:13Speaker 3: Recommendations. I'm gonna recommend a book.
- 1:00:16Speaker 2: It's a short book, so if you are interested in
- 1:00:20Speaker 2: something quick and easy, and it's a collection of short stories.
- 1:00:22Speaker 2: It is a book by an author named J. D. Salinger,
- 1:00:25Speaker 2: never read. The book is called Yeah nobody never heard him,
- 1:00:29Speaker 2: and the book is called nine Stories. If you if
- 1:00:30Speaker 2: the name sounds familiar, you're not sure why, it's because
- 1:00:32Speaker 2: he's the writer of Catcher in the Rye.
- 1:00:34Speaker 1: Oh good rhyme. I was like some slam passion.
- 1:00:36Speaker 2: It does completely by accident too. It's it's almost as
- 1:00:39Speaker 2: if I read all the time and I just I
- 1:00:42Speaker 2: just can't help but write in poems and rhymes.
- 1:00:44Speaker 3: So okay.
- 1:00:45Speaker 2: I think that people are either enamored or soured by
- 1:00:50Speaker 2: the by having to read being forced to read Catcher
- 1:00:53Speaker 2: in the Rye. I think early on we can kind
- 1:00:55Speaker 2: of put Holden caw Field up and go like, well, yeah,
- 1:00:58Speaker 2: you know, he's like he's a rebel. But then later
- 1:01:01Speaker 2: as adults were like, he's just whining so much, and
- 1:01:04Speaker 2: you know, and he's a little bit of a phony.
- 1:01:06Speaker 2: So I would say this, if you have been soured
- 1:01:10Speaker 2: by JD. Salinger having to Recatch on the Rye, please
- 1:01:13Speaker 2: go read Nine Stories. I think it's an excellent read
- 1:01:16Speaker 2: on just very human experiences, you know, like people who
- 1:01:21Speaker 2: that are like they've run off with a boyfriend, you know,
- 1:01:25Speaker 2: and like kind of having experiencing that, having to raise
- 1:01:28Speaker 2: a child as a single parent, like and having to
- 1:01:30Speaker 2: experience that, or being in like a loveless marriage. Like
- 1:01:32Speaker 2: there's they're real stories that like, on the surface sound
- 1:01:36Speaker 2: like they're kind of like, I don't want to say
- 1:01:38Speaker 2: mediocre like events, but they're very just like normal events
- 1:01:42Speaker 2: that happen to people, and he's writing about them in
- 1:01:44Speaker 2: this really beautiful way. I think he's an incredible writer,
- 1:01:47Speaker 2: and I think he doesn't get enough credit. I think
- 1:01:48Speaker 2: he gets all the credit for Catching the Rye. I
- 1:01:50Speaker 2: don't think he gets enough credit for his other works,
- 1:01:53Speaker 2: and this is one of those ones to give you
- 1:01:54Speaker 2: that experience if you want to kind of get outside
- 1:01:56Speaker 2: of that.
- 1:01:56Speaker 3: Wow.
- 1:01:57Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, JD. Salinger nine Stories. I've actually never even
- 1:02:01Speaker 1: heard of this, So this is like nine short stories
- 1:02:03Speaker 1: I'm assuming like a whole a book of nine short stories.
- 1:02:05Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, it's a book of nine short stories. I've
- 1:02:08Speaker 2: had this book for twenty years now. Cool, and it's
- 1:02:12Speaker 2: the first time I read it. I have there's a
- 1:02:13Speaker 2: couple books that I have that I've had for some
- 1:02:15Speaker 2: time because I borrowed them forever.
- 1:02:17Speaker 3: Fair.
- 1:02:18Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, lovely. I am recommending a local restaurant, so
- 1:02:23Speaker 1: you can only find these in Reno, Nevada. Should you
- 1:02:27Speaker 1: find yourself in Reno, sure, yeah. It's a small, locally
- 1:02:29Speaker 1: owned chain, but it is one of my favorite restaurants
- 1:02:32Speaker 1: in the city. It's actually not like the most upscale place,
- 1:02:35Speaker 1: but it's it's also not run down like it's. It's
- 1:02:38Speaker 1: if you were to put it on the like how
- 1:02:41Speaker 1: much are you spending, it's on the slightly higher end
- 1:02:45Speaker 1: of average for like like a dine in restaurant. The
- 1:02:50Speaker 1: reason I like it so much is, first of all,
- 1:02:52Speaker 1: they have a vast, vast menu. They have so many options,
- 1:02:56Speaker 1: and they cater to a lot of different terry preferences,
- 1:03:00Speaker 1: so they have vegan, vegetarian, gluten free keto just like
- 1:03:06Speaker 1: standard no preferences. The owner actually got his start making soups,
- 1:03:11Speaker 1: and so they always have a soup of the day
- 1:03:13Speaker 1: and then a tomato soup, and they are fabulous. I
- 1:03:17Speaker 1: like every single one of the soups that I have try.
- 1:03:19Speaker 1: They're so very good. My favorite one is this mushroom
- 1:03:21Speaker 1: barley soup that he makes that is really really fantastic.
- 1:03:26Speaker 1: They do actually ship a lot of at least the
- 1:03:28Speaker 1: soups I know that they ship nationally, I think, and
- 1:03:31Speaker 1: so you can check those out. The soups are really good.
- 1:03:33Speaker 1: They have like freeze dried one and which I haven't tried,
- 1:03:35Speaker 1: but the frozen ones are very good. Yeah, but if
- 1:03:37Speaker 1: you ever find yourself in Reno checking them out, They've
- 1:03:39Speaker 1: got just such such good options. I'm a huge fan,
- 1:03:43Speaker 1: so grateful gardens than Reno if you find yourself there.
- 1:03:46Speaker 3: That sounds delicious. I love that.
- 1:03:47Speaker 1: Cool. All right, Well, I think that that is what
- 1:03:50Speaker 1: we have to say about restaurants and books by JD. Salinger.
- 1:03:54Speaker 1: Uh huh, definitely all we have to say about inside
- 1:03:56Speaker 1: Out this movie. Well, we probably could come up with
- 1:03:59Speaker 1: more things to say it, but I'm okay with where
- 1:04:01Speaker 1: we landed right now.
- 1:04:01Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel good with that.
- 1:04:03Speaker 1: Perfect All right. Well, then I think We're ready to
- 1:04:05Speaker 1: close this one out and thank you everyone for listening.
- 1:04:07Speaker 1: I think that is is that it? Am I missing anything? No?
- 1:04:10Speaker 1: I think we covered it all right, Well check out
- 1:04:12Speaker 1: the next one. These are really not meant to be
- 1:04:14Speaker 1: like a part one and part two. These are entirely
- 1:04:16Speaker 1: meant to stand on their own. Like when we cover
- 1:04:18Speaker 1: part two, it's going to be just for part two.
- 1:04:20Speaker 1: So yeah, for Inside Out too, it's not a second
- 1:04:24Speaker 1: part episode, but sure when I record them back to back,
- 1:04:26Speaker 1: because why not. Yeah, check us out next time for
- 1:04:29Speaker 1: Inside Out two. That's it. So this is Abraham, this
- 1:04:32Speaker 1: is Shane. We're out.
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