The movie begins with the birth of the human consciousness as Joy spontaneously appears inside baby Riley’s mind, a sparkling, Tinkerbell-like pixie who had forever (ahem, forever as in 33 seconds to be precise) to spend alone …show more content…
The concepts and ideas are funny, inventive and make perfect intuitive sense. There’s Dream Productions, the Train of Thought, Imagination Land and abstract thinking, where objects are reduced to simple shapes. I personally liked Anger very much ("Congratulations, San Francisco, You've Ruined Pizza!") for his brash, impulsive, rude-but-humorous personality. Unlike most mushy films, Pixar put across messages in a humorous but sad way – the sweet moments perfectly balanced out the other aspects of the film. I was close to tears 30 seconds into the movie (which must be a record) – it depicted a lone, timid Joy tentatively touching a button on the console and a baby Riley laughs for the first time, creating the first glowing orb of a memory. I reckon the most meaningful character in the movie were Sadness and Bing Bong. Bing Bong is an elephant-cat cross, Riley’s imaginary friend and he exists primarily to show that the creations of an infant mind are permanently fated to extinction. His last words are "Take her [Riley] to the moon for me, OK?,” said to Joy, referencing to Riley’s younger days when she and Bing Bong used to ride an imaginary rocket to the moon (I was reduced to tears, basically). And like any Pixar film, the message was put forward in a humorous, sad, and truthful way. On the technical side, the animation was spot on – there was this particularly bubbly, sparkling texture to Joy’s skin that accentuated her personality very