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Inside Out 2 (2024)

★ 7.5 · 6,631 ratings on TMDB

Make room for new emotions.

Inside Out 2 poster★ 7.5

Teenager Riley's mind headquarters is undergoing a sudden demolition to make room for something entirely unexpected: new Emotions! Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear and Disgust, who’ve long been running a successful operation by all accounts, aren’t sure how to feel when Anxiety shows up. And it looks like she’s not alone.

DirectorKelsey Mann
CastAmy Poehler, Ayo Edebiri, Grace Lu, Kensington Tallman, Lewis Black, Lilimar
GenresAdventure, Animation, Comedy, Family
The emergence reading

In Inside Out 2, consciousness is carried by abstract concepts — a plane of “personified mindscape”. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing emotion, identity, memory, adolescence, self.

↷ abstract conceptsUSemotionidentitymemoryadolescenceself
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E8emotionemotions are autonomous, personified agents that control memories and behavior inside the mind (cognition · personal)
Also inConsciousness hiding in abstractionsFilms about memoryFilms about identityFilms that alter a rule of reality
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Same rung, same subject

Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.

Anastasia (1997)E8/E9 · identity, memoryThe Giver (2014)E8/E9 · emotion, memoryMulholland Drive (2001)E8/E9 · identity, memoryKubo and the Two Strings (2016)E8/E9 · identity, memoryBig Fish (2003)E8/E9 · identity, memoryAlice Through the Looking Glass (2016)E8/E9 · identity, memory

Also bends a rule of reality

Other films that change a standing rule of their world — ranked first by those bending it at the same rung.

Inception (2010)alters at E8 · same rung · looseNight at the Museum (2006)alters at E8 · same rung · looseOblivion (2013)alters at E8 · same rung · looseEternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)alters at E8 · same rung · rigorousSource Code (2011)alters at E8 · same rung · rigorousYour Name. (2016)alters at E8 · same rung · loose

Also hides consciousness here

Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.

Jojo Rabbit (2019)consciousness in abstractions · imagined-hate friendShazam! (2019)consciousness in abstractions · sin-embodied realmThe Book of Life (2014)consciousness in abstractions · mythic afterlifeThe Legend of Bagger Vance (2000)consciousness in abstractions · golf mythic journeyDrop Dead Fred (1991)consciousness in abstractions · imaginary friend realmThe Imaginary (2023)consciousness in abstractions · imaginary realm

Same subject, different mask

The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.

Finding Dory (2016)consciousness in animals · identity, memorySpirited Away (2001)consciousness in the dead · identity, memoryToy Story (1995)consciousness in objects · identity, memoryToy Story 3 (2010)consciousness in objects · identity, memoryThe Others (2001)consciousness in the dead · identity, memoryAlvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (2009)consciousness in animals · adolescence, identity

Same people

Shared director or cast.

Inside Out (2015)Amy PoehlerRiley's First Date? (2015)Amy PoehlerMan of the Year (2006)Amy PoehlerToy Story 4 (2019)Tony Hale21 (2008)Liza LapiraFast & Furious (2009)Liza Lapira