But this strategy fails, and Joy and Sadness are lost in “long-term memory” while Fear, Disgust, and Anger are left to preside over an agitated depression during which Riley almost runs away from home. Joy runs the show, preventing Sadness from touching any of Riley's “core memories”, presumably because Riley perceives her parents' need for her to stay the happy, perky, resilient self she was before she left her beloved skating pond. Although it is the story of Riley, an 11-year-old happy, hockey-playing girl who moves with her parents from Minnesota to San Francisco, the movie's real stars are Joy, Sadness, Fear, Disgust, and Anger-anthropomorphised feelings that control Riley's life from behind a NASA-style console. But Inside Out, the Disney–Pixar production marketed with the tag line “meet the little voices in your head”, is different. The classic stepmother films ( Cinderella, Snow White) are Oedipal dramas replete with dead mothers, and Ratatouille is the Proustian psychoanalysis of Anton Ego with courgettes starring as the madeleines. The Lancet Regional Health – Western Pacificĭisney movies often spring from the couch.The Lancet Regional Health – Southeast Asia.The Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology.
