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Inside Out (2015)

Film
DirectorPete Docter
Meta takes4

Figures

Characters
  • The character of Sadness and her ability to alter memories
Locations
  • The "Headquarters" control room
Form & technique
  • The parallel plot structure alternating between Riley's life and the emotions' journey
Tropes
  • The character designs and leadership roles of the five main emotions → The Performed Self
  • The film's resolution, where emotions work together at an upgraded console → The Corporate Self
  • The physical, particle-based forms of the emotions
  • Bing Bong's sacrificial fading in the Memory Dump → Narrative Prosthesis
  • The design of abstract thought, the subconscious, and the memory dump → The Time-Space Crucible

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