The animated film illustrates how emotions shape our lives. Fear, anger, irritation, joy, sadness—what purpose do they serve? How do they function in our minds? And even more so in teenagers like Riley, the protagonist of the story.
In just an hour and a half, you can grasp the mechanisms of how our brain works. How memory and attention, thinking and emotions are connected. Why can previously happy memories suddenly turn sad, coloring them in gray and gloomy hues?
The cartoon will be useful for parents of teenagers, as the young girl in the plot moves to a new city, tries to adapt to new conditions, and how to react and help parents in such situations? Especially since the teenager expresses protest, and emotional instability manifests in everything around causing either irritation or boundless joy.
Of course, the viewers are treated to a happy ending, and for me, as a psychologist, a good ending means that adaptation was successful and new age-appropriate developments appeared—feelings of adulthood and self-assertion. Riley returns to playing hockey and finds a friend—a boy named J.
