Pixar’s newest film, Inside Out, just may change how everyone views the human mind.
For a long time the company has remained eerily quiet about the toons studios 15th production, at least until yesterday when Director Pete Docter not only showed the opening number but also explained his entire vision for the film at Annecy International Animated Film Festival in France, reports Entertainment Weekly.
Docter, who also directed Up, explained that his vision from the film comes from the shift of emotions his daughter demonstrated when she turned 12 and ‘grew up.’
“It’s based on a strong emotional experience I had watching my daughter grow up… There is something that is lost when you grow up — and the film became a way to explore that change on an emotional level,” he told Variety before explaining the full plot for the film.
The movie will follow 11-year-old Riley, who remains as the setting for the film, as the plot occurs within her brain featuring five emotions that can control Riley at any moment: Fear (Bill Hader), Sadness (Phyllis Smith), Joy (Amy Poehler), Disgust (Mindy Kaling) and Anger (Lewis Black).
Early screenings of the film has already begun to show that audience members are taking the message and applying it to themselves as Docter laments, “One family came and watched the movie…The son had always had trouble going off the diving board, and that day, he dove off, and he said, ‘I just felt like Fear was driving, and I needed to make him step aside.’”
Docter also admitted that while at first it felt like he was making a movie about his daughter, it is more of about himself in relation to his daughter and being understood. Most of it is told from a parent’s point of view and what it is like to be a parent. He, himself, agrees he now re-thinks the way he grew up, his adolescence and what he is even doing today and why.
Inside Out opens June 19, 2015