Inside Out Review: 8 Reasons It's Pixar's Best Film Since Up

4. It Tricks You Into Forgetting The Real World

Inside Out opens with a wonderful sequence charting Riley's first ten years, focusing on the emergence of her key emotions and creation of her core memories. It's not as movie-defining as Up's Married Life montage, but does serve a purpose that runs through the whole movie; starting out at Riley's birth and having Joy narrate her upbringing from an inside perspective means the audience ends up put in the mindset of an eleven year old girl - all wide-eyed wonderment and unbridled joy. The thing is, in doing all this Inside Out's actually tricking you; you don't just see the world from Riley's point of view, but do so in ignorance of a more mature worldview. Inside Out's overall message is something all adults will have faced in some form or another, yet when it hits you can't help but be shocked, feeling the full emotional whack. Through Joy's innocence (or rather ignorance) it has regressed you to a childlike state of wonder, then forces you to go through the turbulent realisation of the real world along with characters. Now that's impressive. Plenty of films are capable of making something you know is bad seem good (see The Wolf Of Wall Street), but few can make you believe something you know deep down to be untrue.