《头脑特工队》

    Directed by Pete Docter, this new Pixar film is fun and smart.

    Although the story follows the difficult adjustment* suffered by 11-year-old Riley when she’s uprooted by her parents from a happy Minnesota life to an unfriendly San Francisco, the real setting* is inside the girl’s head. It’s a control room staffed by the blue-haired Joy; red Anger; purplish Fear; green, eye-rolling Disgust and all-blue Sadness.

    The mind, as we know, is a busy place, with all sorts of things bouncing around in it, and Docter and his team have presented it as a room centered around a control panel and lined with shelves and tubes where memories and thoughts are stored. Joy has always held control in Riley’s happy life before, but now, faced with a new home, a new school, no friends and the loss of her old hockey* team, Sadness, with help from the others, is gaining power.

    It all flashes by* very quickly, but at night, control passes over to the long-term memory bank, and there is a literal* train of thought.

    As it is, Joy and Sadness take a trip down the rabbit hole of Riley’s fighting psyche*.

    Riley is turning away from her caring parents, rebelling* against her new surroundings, becoming unhappy and, for the first time in her life, is depressed, all of which leads her to plot running away from home.

    From the inside, Joy and Sadness travel to some chaotic place, leaving Disgust, Fear and Anger taking control of Riley. The two go through a dangerous journey, during which Riley’s happy childhood all come falling down and the illusions* of innocence* must be left behind.

    What the film reveals, in its highly original way, is the competition* among the oppositional* aspects of human nature. In this respect, Joy is the heroine*, but the script doesn’t pretend that any of the other emotions couldn’t take over* and lead one to the wrong place.(SD-Agencies)A scene from “Inside Out.”SD-Agencies