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Inside Out

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Inside Out In 2015, animation studio Pixar released one of the greatest animation movies of all time. The movie is a burst of imagination. It is truly a masterclass on creativity. It's colorful and bright. It is informative, intelligent, accurate and brilliant. Titled "Inside Out" the movie is about emotional intelligence and takes place in a little girl's head. In the limbic system to be precise - the place in your brain that processes feelings and emotions. The main characters in the limbic system aka "headquarters" are Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fearfulness and Disgust. Riley's life dramatically changes when her parents relocate to the city. All the changes in her life leave her without a campus as she has to start afresh. We see the chaos in her head manifesting as she navigates her world through the advent of her emotions in the limbic system. As the chaos brews, Sadness and Joy are cast out of the limbic system. Throughout the movie Joy expre...

Moana

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Moana This has to be one of my favorite movies of all time. It is typical Disney at their very best. It has magic, choreographed dancing and singing and of course Moana is an archetype of the hero like Simba on the other Disney movie "The Lion King" . The animation is excellent and the ideas and concepts are inspired. The movie is inspirational and beaming with imagination and originality. The movie is so intelligent and draws its inspiration from mythology centering on Gods. The movies theme centers around self-realization and the premise of following the voice inside. It is Nietzsche's become who you are. It is the hero navigating chaos to restore order in the world. The movie is about the individuation process, the premise of staying true to yourself. Urban poet Kanye West once posed a rhetorical, he stated "Would you believe in what you believed in, even though you were the only person who believed it? ". We find out the answer to this question i...