As a kid, I was diagnosed with severe anxiety. I feel like I dealt more with social anxiety than regular anxiety throughout my life but I could relate to Riley's panic attacks extremely.
1 the way anxiety is shown in this movie is amazing . Usually anxiety is a mechanism to make someone feel like they're protecting themselves from something that might happen to them in the future, which is an accurate description for it. Anxiety can make you do a lot of awful things and as you grow older, you do start to pretend to be something you're not in order to feel loved. Although I do not like anxiety being treated as an emotion when it is rather a disorder in someone and is a bigger problem for many people who need to take pills and go to therapy for, still love how it was done in this movie. Though they treat anxiety sometimes like it's just a simple thing people experience, Riley doesn't use any methods in order to control her anxiety actually (disappointing) growing up I had to learn a lot of methods in order to control my anxiety before I grew up and didn't need to no longer. It's not realistic that Riley learned how to control her anxiety that quickly, especially without help. I don't even think Riley actually ever learned she had anxiety in this movie actually.
2 Riley's relationship with her friends was very relatable. Everyone hides how they're mad at someone they love. I loved how her flaws and panic attack actually helped her admit that. I didn't really get why she became friends with those girls in the end, like they treated her like shet throughout the whole movie. What??? Did they just become these angels from heaven automatically in the end? What the hell is goin on? And they made her in into something she's not. How can Riley change and learn how to be confident in who she is if she's still hangs out with these wannabe thugs??? Wouldn't it make more sense if the main girl realized those weren't her real friends because of Riley and made a new team with her friends? The main part of growing up is moving on from people that made you into something you're not, that's how you get over it. Riley never even actually confronts to those girls that she actually wasn't being her real self and she just wanted to be good enough for them, that was really disappointing. I guess screw confronting your true feelings in front of them and moving on, let's just become friends with the a hole girls, yeah happy ending just for kids!
3 I loved embarrassment and envy. Embarrassment was so cute and envy was adorable and funny. I laughed a lot whenever envy was on. I don't really get why enui is named enui, like everybody else has simple names like joy, anger and disgust why not just call her boredom? But her design was very well done for her emotion, she was a fun character to watch. I really wished they had some sort of attraction emotion or mechanic in this movie since that is such a big part of growing up into a teenager. They do slightly imply and mention that but it's not really ever represented. It wasn't represented in the last movie and this was the perfect age for Riley to show that part of her growing up.
4 another thing is the movie only really talks about anxiety and nothing much else. It's mainly about anxiety basically. As a woman, I'm so happy to see this movie was directed by a female creator. Although this movie was created by a woman, The movie shys away from topics like ministration and the female body in general. Riley grows taller I guess but that's about it for her body. I'm not saying they should animate Riley with some huge kardashian tets or whatever but can she at least wear a small training bra or something? Most females do get their breast at 13. I like how they made Riley have acne but she only has one pimple and she doesn't even notice it. None of the other teenager in this movie have acne like at all. Almost every teenager I see in real life has acne. Acne is a serious part of insecurity as a teenager, where's the insecurity emotion?
5 I loved how the main message of this movie is that there is always both bad and good things about us, but whether it's good or bad it's still apart of us and something that we should always accept. The main solution to anxiety is to simply accept the bad parts of you which is a perfect message for a movie about the real world and emotions. It's a beautiful message to teenagers that they are allowed to be imperfect and accept it because the older you get, the harder it is to face that you will never be perfect.
Overall I just think that this film shys away from many things in order for parents not to sue their film. I think turning red represents puberty better in general since it didn't shy away from any more personal topics. Turning red represented sexual attraction, but not in a way where It was gross or inappropriate. This movie could've done the same thing as turning red such as attraction and ministration, it doesn't have to be a big thing in the film but it could at least actually exist in a good amount but rather those big parts of life (especially in a woman's life which Riley is a woman) are simply out of the picture in order to avoid conflict from guardians.
But I just have to say, I could relate to Riley's video game crush asfff. That is fknnn me sis.
1 the way anxiety is shown in this movie is amazing . Usually anxiety is a mechanism to make someone feel like they're protecting themselves from something that might happen to them in the future, which is an accurate description for it. Anxiety can make you do a lot of awful things and as you grow older, you do start to pretend to be something you're not in order to feel loved. Although I do not like anxiety being treated as an emotion when it is rather a disorder in someone and is a bigger problem for many people who need to take pills and go to therapy for, still love how it was done in this movie. Though they treat anxiety sometimes like it's just a simple thing people experience, Riley doesn't use any methods in order to control her anxiety actually (disappointing) growing up I had to learn a lot of methods in order to control my anxiety before I grew up and didn't need to no longer. It's not realistic that Riley learned how to control her anxiety that quickly, especially without help. I don't even think Riley actually ever learned she had anxiety in this movie actually.
2 Riley's relationship with her friends was very relatable. Everyone hides how they're mad at someone they love. I loved how her flaws and panic attack actually helped her admit that. I didn't really get why she became friends with those girls in the end, like they treated her like shet throughout the whole movie. What??? Did they just become these angels from heaven automatically in the end? What the hell is goin on? And they made her in into something she's not. How can Riley change and learn how to be confident in who she is if she's still hangs out with these wannabe thugs??? Wouldn't it make more sense if the main girl realized those weren't her real friends because of Riley and made a new team with her friends? The main part of growing up is moving on from people that made you into something you're not, that's how you get over it. Riley never even actually confronts to those girls that she actually wasn't being her real self and she just wanted to be good enough for them, that was really disappointing. I guess screw confronting your true feelings in front of them and moving on, let's just become friends with the a hole girls, yeah happy ending just for kids!
3 I loved embarrassment and envy. Embarrassment was so cute and envy was adorable and funny. I laughed a lot whenever envy was on. I don't really get why enui is named enui, like everybody else has simple names like joy, anger and disgust why not just call her boredom? But her design was very well done for her emotion, she was a fun character to watch. I really wished they had some sort of attraction emotion or mechanic in this movie since that is such a big part of growing up into a teenager. They do slightly imply and mention that but it's not really ever represented. It wasn't represented in the last movie and this was the perfect age for Riley to show that part of her growing up.
4 another thing is the movie only really talks about anxiety and nothing much else. It's mainly about anxiety basically. As a woman, I'm so happy to see this movie was directed by a female creator. Although this movie was created by a woman, The movie shys away from topics like ministration and the female body in general. Riley grows taller I guess but that's about it for her body. I'm not saying they should animate Riley with some huge kardashian tets or whatever but can she at least wear a small training bra or something? Most females do get their breast at 13. I like how they made Riley have acne but she only has one pimple and she doesn't even notice it. None of the other teenager in this movie have acne like at all. Almost every teenager I see in real life has acne. Acne is a serious part of insecurity as a teenager, where's the insecurity emotion?
5 I loved how the main message of this movie is that there is always both bad and good things about us, but whether it's good or bad it's still apart of us and something that we should always accept. The main solution to anxiety is to simply accept the bad parts of you which is a perfect message for a movie about the real world and emotions. It's a beautiful message to teenagers that they are allowed to be imperfect and accept it because the older you get, the harder it is to face that you will never be perfect.
Overall I just think that this film shys away from many things in order for parents not to sue their film. I think turning red represents puberty better in general since it didn't shy away from any more personal topics. Turning red represented sexual attraction, but not in a way where It was gross or inappropriate. This movie could've done the same thing as turning red such as attraction and ministration, it doesn't have to be a big thing in the film but it could at least actually exist in a good amount but rather those big parts of life (especially in a woman's life which Riley is a woman) are simply out of the picture in order to avoid conflict from guardians.
But I just have to say, I could relate to Riley's video game crush asfff. That is fknnn me sis.