The ads made it seem like it would just be showing how the emotions control how things are runned in the brain, and that joy was of course was missing so the other emotions had to improvise, but I didn't think it would get so deep. It brought on a lot of topics that I was hoping that would bring up. Sadness was kind of running amuck for a bit because while Joy was keeping things positive, but Riley was going through a really bad time. She just moved away from her home, and everything was different, and her friends were gone and her home was not really a home, and just feeling like nothing was right. It was obvious that Sadness felt like doing something because Riley was depressed, and the fact that a new Core Memory was made from Sadness, it showed that it was getting bad.
They really talked about depression throughout it, to the point where they basically talked about extreme depression where you don't even feel any emotions. I mean, at the end you can just see how the panel was slowly turning off because there was nothing left. She had no emotion, and it was very scary. Sadness was able to turn off the idea to run away, because you need sadness so that you can get it out of you, talk it out, and find people to help you. Riley was enclosed in herself, and she was just making it worse. Once she finally just broke down and had her parents there to help her, it was not so much so happy anymore. Her core memories were given to sadness, because change was needed.
And that's basically what they talked about was just that...change. Fleeting of childhood, fleeting of what you used to be, and having to change. Everything was just breaking down, all her core memories that defined who she was, and her having to change. I think the saddest part was when her imaginary friend sacrificed himself so that joy could escape the dump. I was holding back just breaking down and sobbing, my lip quivering because of just how heartbreaking it was, especially since you knew that he just wanted to spend one more moment with Riley, to see her "go to the moon" in their fantasy rocket ship. Riley was growing up, and her childhood was slowing fading away.
