So it’s been pretty hot outside for the last month or so here and by that, I mean it’s been in the 90’s and not rainy at all. For most people that live in Cairo, you probably laugh and say, “HA HA. We live in a desert where sand and stuff gets in our eyes, like 23 hours a day!” and you would be right, Cairo dwellers. But most people are smart enough to not live in a desert, and choose rather to have dessert. Regardless, most of those people that live in the desert probably have air conditioning on their camels. Well, I don’t. I have a car that’s only extra is a tiny little auxiliary plug that allows me to put a plug for my Ipod. Remember those things? The things before phones that allowed you to store music and TV shows and movies on them? Speaking of getting off track, the reason why I started talking about it being hot, was that I and my daughter decided to go to a movie last week called Inside Out. Some people went to see it because it was a Pixar movie. I went to see it, because of the promise of the title saying that I would be inside.
Once inside I realized that the reason it was called Inside Out was that someone did some surgery and figured out how to get inside the brain of some 11 year old girl and found out that people only had five different emotions in their head. Let’s take a look at the stars of Inside Out:
Joy – The first one emotion was an insane person with blue hair and a yellow glowy figure. She was constantly happy, way too bossy and controlly and always wanted to be in charge. She just couldn’t stand when other people tried to take over the console and that controlled this video game that was this girl’s emotions. She reminds me of all those people that hog the remote so they can watch shows about feelings and never just want to sit and watch ESPN. Also don’t touch my stuff get all your non happy emotions on my memories.
Sadness – She also had blue hair and was just plain blue all over. She was always trying to bring the room down and make people cry. Just seems like a waste of all the water. She was also kind of lazy (which in itself is a great thing to be) but then she made people carry her around. In my experience, a good lazy person just wants to sit on the couch and do what he wants. The last thing they want to do is be carried around.
Fear – This guy was always doing research. And math. And stats. What is the probability that if we touched that thing, we might get germs? Or what are the chances if we eat that banana, that we are going to accidentally drop it on the ground and slip on it and crack our skulls? Or even worse, what are the chances we never get air conditioning and we sweat to death? His job was to keep people safe, but all he did was make them bitter.
Disgust – Possibly a friend of the Hulk. Her shiny green hair and green body and green clothes would have fit right in with the Hulk. Might have been what envy looked like because she was green with it. She’s the one inside all the girls heads who ever went on a date with me. Didn’t like my pants and shirt combo, or the way I did my hair (meaning didn’t keep it), or the way I always had spinach in my teeth. Which is weird because I never ate spinach.
Anger – Short, red, fire coming out of his head. Had a short fuse, maybe also a friend of the Hulk’s, because of his lack of management skills. Mostly management of himself. Would possibly be a good person to have in the wilderness because of his ability to light the way in the darkness, and be able to cook the marshmallow part of a Smore.
My assessment of the movie? I’m not sure what it was, but there seemed to be something missing from the movie. There was a scene in the movie where the emotions of Riley played against the emotions of the dad and the mom and that was pretty spot on. The dad’s emotions were all focused on a game on ESPN, but was rudely interrupted by a family discussion. I think if you know any man, this will ring true. But what was really missing? Were all the emotions a person had included? Or was one emotion left out, like usual?
Yes, as usual, bitterness was not mentioned or discussed or even found somewhere deep in the recesses of the mind. Not one mention. An imaginary friend even had a big role. But just like always, the bitterness was left out. Do you see why bitterness is so bitter all the time?
Now I guess we will never know what Disney thinks bitterness looks like. Typical Disney.
ARRRRRGGGGGHHHHH
Bitterness
You totally left out Bing Bong — the real hero of the movie.
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Bing Bong was good, but not bitter enough. I still think they needed a bitter emotion.
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hahahahahah! You should’ve been a consultant on the film. HOW COULD THEY LEAVE OUT BITTERNESS DO THEY KNOW ANYTHING WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE
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It’s only the most complex and regular feeling people have. And there could have been an epic battle between joy and bitterness at the end.
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Of course bitterness would’ve won–maybe Pixar just isn’t ready to face that truth.
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I guess they are just waiting for that kid to get older to have bitterness take over, but really they just can’t face the truth that it is happening RIGHT NOW.
By the way, I feel like we should be writing a movie together, in the sense that you should be writing the whole thing and I’d be all, “OMG that is the greatest idea ever! Keep writing that!” and then we would get a co-writing credit.
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Yaaa, people can’t handle the truth of RIGHT NOW. And hahaha I’m pretty sure I would be the one saying “OMG that is the greatest idea ever! Keep writing that!”
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I feel like it would be the greatest movie ever, but we would probably be the only ones that would think that. And maybe the only ones in attendance. Maybe Aubrey Plaza would be too.
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For sure.
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I know this Seattleite is glad for a break in the weather.
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And we finally got it. I assume we will be complaining about how cold it is now.
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I think they’re saving bitterness for the sequel (because you know there will be one) when she hits puberty. I bet bitterness, anger, & disgust will be the stars of that show!
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I sure hope bitterness makes the sequel, but then it will be a full grown adult who is bitter all the time. I guess I will have to be in the sequel.
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Maybe you should lobby Pixar… They’d have a hard time saying no to Bitter Ben & His Bitter Brigade. Just a thought.
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Oh I’m sure they wouldn’t struggle too much to find a way to say no to me. And I wouldn’t struggle to be bitter about it.
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I am so bitter that Bitterness was not included! Bitterness should be the star of every show.
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Right, Aurora? It’s about time people start figuring that out!
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I can’t type correctly. Gaaaaaaah!
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I can’t either, so thank goodness for a delete and a backspace button.
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Thought we were going to get a break from Kansas heat when I visited my son in Seattle last week, but all we got a break from was humidity. Which, was actually quite nice! lol
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I know, the weather here has been so bitter without air conditioning. Luckily, we got our wall unit fixed and have our room unit working, but they just aren’t enough to keep out our lunatic neighbor kids.
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My ex had to buy a couple portable units to get some relief.
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It’s pretty painful, especially when my car doesn’t have AC either.
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Yeah, my hubby took the kids to see this. The kids had nothing to do and I was trying to get him to take them somewhere. A movie was one of the few things he could deal with. Why? You guessed it. Inside and air conditioning. Anyway, I hear they are making an Inside Out 2 with a Bitter character. Really? No.
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If they did make an Inside Out 2 with a bitter character, they couldn’t have the happy ending they were hoping for, because bitterness would just take over all the other characters.
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Is that not a happy ending?
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It’s a bitter ending, which is my favorite.
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I’ve been wanting to see this since I worked in a bio-psychosocial emotion research lab in college. Unfortunately, bitter wasn’t a part of any of the studies we reviewed, either. But, I think it should be, dammit! Maybe if anger and disgust got together to procreate, they could have a very nice bitter child! 😀
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That is a long time. How long ago was that lab? Was that movie even talked about back then? I’ve always maintained that bitterness is almost always the last emotion that is talked about, which is why I have tried to raise awareness for it for so long.
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I would bet some good money that the concept of the film wasn’t even close to anyone’s mind when I worked in the lab. It was even before the show “Lie to Me” came out.
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Wow, so you really want to see it. I hope it isn’t a huge disappointment when you see it, though I really liked it minus the bitter guy missing.
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Maybe, this is just the beginning of a voice for bitterness! It’s about time bitter had a voice. You are a pioneer!!
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I’ve always looked at myself as a bitterness activist, but more like the lazy kind that just writes about it, instead of going and doing anything about it.
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I think that writing, and eating pizza can be perceived as revolutionary approaches to activism! 🙂
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Or at least a passive approach to activism. HAHA!
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Yeah! A passive pizza approach! Pepperoni can be very influential! 😀
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Pepperoni definitely has a way of getting me to do way more than the minimum for sure!
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I saw this over the weekend too, with my son. That Sadness chick really got on my nerves. Also I’m bitter about your warm weather as I sit here shivering and wondering if I should turn the heat on in July.
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Where the heck are you getting cold weather? I think they portrayed the dads mind pretty well. I am almost always focused on the ESPN and I get mad when someone changes that train of thought.
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Chicago area, it’s been in the 50’s at night and only reaching the 60’s for the past two days. We’ve got more hot and humid on the way though. My favorite part of the movie was actually the extra scenes during the credits. Funny stuff!
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Now that is a typical day in Seattle. We finally got a day where it isn’t hot. Now we will commence complaining about how cold it is here.
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I’m never happy about the weather. I like fall the best and if we’re lucky it will last two weeks. It goes from triple digits to three feet of snow. I hate it here.
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That sounds like a perfectly bitter place to live. Maybe I need to move there so I have the weather to complain about more.
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Come for a visit at least. I’ll make you an arugula salad, because it’s bitter.
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Bitter food sounds great. Can we add some rhubarbs too?
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And we’ll wash it down with unsweetened lemonade!
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Yes, bitter lemonade. The best way to drink it.
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A few days after seeing “Inside Out”, my son asks, “Mom? If Joy, Sadness, Fear, Disgust, and Anger control Riley’s mind…who controls THEIR minds?” MIND. BLOWN. I told him we’d have to wait for the sequel to find out 😉
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That is the Inception question of that movie. Your son probably wants to stop thinking about that before his head explodes and he becomes bitter like me.
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I think the bitterness comes later, if you had parents who asked you continuously to put on a happy face for their sakes.
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My bitterness was actually the first emotion and has always pushed the others to the side.
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All I know I sitting there feeling angry and bitter toward the parents. The Boffin and I moved the Sprog from Boston to Chicago when she was six, and we were both sitting there ready to smack them because of how craptastic they were.
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I was sitting there. I am still angry and bitter that I can type correctly. The parents did that much wrong.
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Good thing I’m okay with it.
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Those are all kinds of British words that I don’t know. Good job mixing those in. And then also using such an American made up word like craptastic.
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Boffin = a person who is smart in the STEM areas and actually does something with the knowledge. That’s how I refer to my husband. He’s a chemical engineer with several patents under his belt.
Sprog = British slang for kid.
I should come with a glossary.
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I guess you would call me an Anti-Boffin. That is pretty cool that your husband has some patents. I wish I was Boffin enough to invent something like that.
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But you have a cool bitter blog.
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Some people call me bitter, others call me anti-sweet.
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Interesting take on this movie. Everyone who I know has something different to say about it, leading me to wonder what’s up with it? If I were a bitter person I’d think that the movie wasn’t really about understanding emotions, but just a way to make money. I’m just saying, no disrespect intended… 😉
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My emotion is to make money too. Especially after I watched a show last night about all these lottery winners and what they are doing with all that money.
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I’m kind of surprised Jealousy isn’t a character. Or was that basically Disgust? It’s amazing the type of movies Pixar comes up with.
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I think there are a way bigger range of emotions they could have used, but they couldn’t do all of them justice. I think they really only used three really well in the movie. But bitterness could have been great. HA! HA!
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