Inside Out: Is Joy the VILLAIN? – Wisecrack Edition

So of all of the images you could have used for doctor psychologists, psychiatrists, self help gurus, school counselors or human resources department people, you couldn't find ANYbody that would have added…. variety… to that slide?

Absolutely love this! Sp profound!

no joy is evil

3:18
eleventh doctor from doctor who
heheh

okay, NOW i want to watch Inside out

Here's a hypothetical question I've been mulling over: There's an earthquake while Riley's at school and a bookshelf starts to fall towards the Cool Girl. Which of her emotions has her run over a pull the other Cool Girl to safety?

I always thought Riley was the main character… And that the emotions were reflecting what she was feeling, not that they were causing it…

My one issue with this video is bringing into play what Silicon Valley companies do. You should check out The Happiness Advantage as it describes why companies who do this are more successful and legitimately have less depressed employees, and this is based on thousands of anonymous surveys.

Joy is the true villain in Inside Out, because she's the reason why Riley's mind went haywire!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

not that Joy not really the villain if you consider she is literally the emotion happiness so look at that from that perspective you would see Joy is not really a villain but just too positive because he is positive you see where I'm going with us.

This analysis immediately makes me think of similar issues explored in the show Psycho Pass with regards to societal obligation of happiness. Good stuff.

There was no villain in Inside Out but the conflict Riley's emotions tries to avoid. If joy really did something bad it wouldn't be on purpose as none of Riley's emotions are mean to have evil traits, which doesn't mean they're perfect but that they do try, by good intentions, to do the right thing.

I feel a Debbie Downer quip arising when I think about the horrible treatment of professional animators by film studios.

Totally agree with your Joy is the villain expose btw. Makes a lot of sense. What do you call a hero that does wrong because of good intentions?

I blame women! They just won't sleep with a sad realist. They want 'happy' 'confident' fools (ignorance is bliss, you have to be a moron to like the world we live in). This forces men to pretend they are happy and confident fools or not get laid. Since we need to get laid to be happy … oh damn … better be a good actor. Crap now I have to be a sociopath ? argh.

I thought this was obvious… But maybe that's because I have depression.

I love inside out

here's my question:

why do the memories turn sad when Sadness touches them, but none of the other emotions effect them?

I think 'villain' is a bit of a strong word for Joy. 'Antagonist' would suit her better.

no wonder joy annoyed me so much, I decided to not watch the whole movie XD

I absolutely loved your take on this. It feels like you took the thoughts from my head and put them in a video. My 5yo and I only just saw this movie over the weekend. Loved it so much that my son begged me to watch it again. I read so many reviews that people hated this movie, and I think that's because they didn't get the message. As a soon-to-be therapist, I doubly appreciate you putting this out there.

I thinking anger is there villain because I hate himself he isn't fat

The name of the song in the end?

It's not as simple as Protagonist and Antagonist. She's both. She is the societal balance and the enacting ego. Everything else is good though.

I just noticed that Reilly, and her teacher, both single have Joy in charge of their brains. While married mom has saddens, and married dad has anger. Didn't know if that was some comment on marriage. Although their emotions seemed to be better controlled than Reilly's. What's odd is that Reilly is the only one whose emotions are made up of different sexes. Does that mean that her emotions will evolve, and eventually become female? The bus driver's emotions,which retained their original colors, all had the same shape as anger.

This was just remake of Herman's Head.

5:00 Well, if you happy most of the time, there is no question "Why am I working a job I hate?", because job takes most of the time, isn't it?

Judging by the 4K comments here- no one will ever figure out happiness or the lack there of or even of what it is or isn't.

Hey science is my thing!

This was just simply wonderful!

6:01 why is it deemed accidental? This video surely brings more detail to the understanding of that point, but I think everyone who watches the movie understands that Joy was being too bossy. The writers obviously did this intentionally.

4:37 I'd say it's more useful to use the term 'consumerism' here.