INSIDE OUT | Meet Sadness | Official Disney Pixar UK - YouTube Sadness was born on the same day as Riley. In finally revealing her own fears and worries, her parents reveal they share Riley’s as well, and again, a kind of catharsis is reached: it’s an advocation for the talking cure, as it were. Sadness doesn’t do anything, She occasionally sneaks onto the controls governing Riley when no one’s looking and makes her cry, but for the most part she just hangs around, being kind of a bummer. Sadness also can spend a happy workday! Another boring weekday, Inside Out Sadness is so unhappy. Meanwhile, Sadness is seen by the other emotions, Fear, Anger and Disgust, negatively, as they also share Joy's view of Sadness. To reach it, Bing Bong leads them to what he thinks is a shortcut. Given that she's Joy's polar opposite, Joy takes an instant dislike to her. Things seem to be getting worse when the main story of “Inside Out” picks up: Sadness keeps touching, even tainting, Riley’s memories, which she can’t explain or even control. READ MORE: Cannes Review: Pixar’s ‘Inside Out’ With Amy Poehler, Bill Hader, Mindy Kaling & More. But quickly, her blue friend proves useful: her time spent alone reading the “manuals” means that she knows the way out of the maze of long-term memory in which they’re stranded (even if Joy has to drag her around while she does it). This Article is related to: Features and tagged Feature, Features, Inside Out, Pete Docter, Pixar. “There are so many books on how to be happy and what you need for happiness and you want that for your kid too. Sometimes it seems like the best thing to do is just lie on the floor and have a good cry. Although Joy is a little mean to her, it doesn't look like Sadness hates her. Joy sees the value in some of her colleagues —Fear stops Riley from getting hurt, Disgust forms her taste, first in food and then in fashion and social skills. The reason why Joy wanted Sadness to stay in it was because she didn't see any reason for Riley Andersen to be sad, or any reason to use Sadness at all in her plan for a perfect, happy day. The success has likely been led by the glowing reviews. You can play the game on smartphone and tablet (iPhone, iPad, Samsung, Android devices and Windows Phone). As I said above, Joy doesn’t understand the value of Sadness, and at first, when lost with her emotional colleague, sees her as a potential hinderance rather than a help. “In America, you read about people medicating to avoid sadness,” Docter said in an interview to Slashfilm. https://insideout.fandom.com/wiki/Circle_of_Sadness?oldid=8162. I’d respectfully disagree, but there’s certainly some educational benefit to the movie’s necessarily simplified and incomplete but surprisingly rigorous metaphorical conceit. Joy then hands to Sadness the core memories, which all turn sad. With Sadness too discouraged to walk, Joy ends up dragging her around, as Sadness' knowledge from the mind manuals proves useful to navigate the maze-like Long Term Memory. The result, which take our heroes —plus Riley’s long-lost imaginary friend Bing Bong, a part elephant, part cat, part dolphin creation made of cotton candy and voiced by Richard Kind, who stops the film from falling entirely back on the buddy formula that the studio can sometimes use as a crutch— throughout Riley’s mind from Abstract Thought to Imagination Land, is able to match Pixar’s best for gags, excitement and sheer adventure. None of the other Emotions really understand what Sadness’s role is. Her turmoil is shown literally through the emotions that drive her: Joy (Amy Poehler), Sadness (Phyllis Smith), Fear (Bill Hader), Anger (Lewis Black) and Disgust (Mindy Kaling). Sadness is a character of Inside Out parodies. Initially, she and Joy both struggled to become Riley's lead emotion, but within a few years, Joy emerged victorious and has been controlling Riley, giving emotions other than Sadness their roles. The latter in turn comes to gain some self-esteem and to finally take her place at the console. “We all want happiness in our life,” Docter told Slashfilm. Copyright © 2020 Penske Business Media, LLC. Then you can clean the desk up and decorate it, let's make it looks comfortable and fashion. Her doings create a new, sad core memory. World culture, and American culture in particular, sometimes feels like it’s allergic to feeling blue. Look at the increasing call for “trigger warnings” at colleges (, as highlighted by Jill Filipovic in The Guardian, As others have pointed out, “Inside Out” fits in part in Pixar’s long tradition of coming-of-age films: Jen Chaney at. Afterwards, she tended to be more on the wayside than the other Emotions, both because Joy does not see any use to her and because she is not very confident herself. From the Academy Award winning film, Inside Out is the climax of the movie. Yet the film’s value goes much further than pure entertainment, perhaps more than any film Pixar have made to date. Clinical depression is an incredibly, impossibly serious condition, one that more people need to be aware of, not fewer. Sign Up: Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Things seem to be getting worse when the main story of “Inside Out” picks up: Sadness keeps touching, even tainting, Riley’s memories, which she can’t explain or even control. Sadness, who knows it is in fact Abstract Thought, a dangerous place, tries to convince Joy to go around it, but in vain. Sadness is the deuteragonist of Inside Out. Sadness receives little to no appearances in parodies, and has even been omitted from CreativityTheEmotion's channel trailer due to having no notable lines to fit in. We’re talking about Sadness. Sadness and Joy are polar opposites. When looking at the trailers, since Joy put her down so much, it seems she's adopted a "what can I possibly do to help?" As I said above, Joy doesn’t understand the value of Sadness, and at first, when lost with her emotional colleague, sees her as a potential hinderance rather than a help. She has deep empathy and compassion for others and their troubles, and can bring people in need together. Pixar’s ‘Inside Out’ Official Character Descriptions, https://pixar.fandom.com/wiki/Sadness?oldid=216715. Official promotion on the Disney website. Her first memory was making baby Riley cry for the first time. You can play the game on smartphone and tablet (iPhone, iPad, Samsung, Android devices and Windows Phone). Joy named the circle "the Circle of Sadness" and explained that the job would be to "make sure all the Sadness stays inside."