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Disgust, Anxiety and Joy in Inside Out 2, screenshot courtesy Disney\/Pixar trailer<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>
Inside Out 2<\/em> is great. While not quite peak Pixar (which hit its artistic zenith with WALL-E, Up<\/em> and Toy Story 3<\/em> in the late 2000\u2019s), it\u2019s awfully close. Moreover, the movie is all about belief: Not belief in God, exactly, or what we believe happens when we die, but what we believe about ourselves.<\/p>\n
But don\u2019t fool yourself into believing that Inside Out 2<\/em> isn\u2019t spiritual. In its own way, it\u2019s deeply so.<\/p>\n
As the Disney\/Pixar film opens, we renew our friendship with Riley\u2014the girl at the center of the two Inside Out<\/em> movies\u2014and her five emotions: Joy, Sadness, Fear, Anger and Disgust. And, naturally, everything is going along swimmingly.<\/p>\n
And then, the puberty alarm goes off\u2014quite literally. And even though Joy successfully rips the alarm off and flings it across the expanse of 13-year-old Riley\u2019s mind, there\u2019s no stopping it. Soon, construction workers are tearing up the emotions\u2019 nice little control room to make room for \u201cthe others,\u201d which is just as ominous as it sounds.<\/p>\n
New emotions arrive soon after: Embarrassment Ennui, Envy and\u2014most especially\u2014Anxiety.<\/p>\n
It doesn\u2019t take long before Anxiety gently pushes Joy away from the controls. She has her own ideas of what Riley needs.<\/p>\n
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Anxiety in Inside Out 2, screenshot courtesy Disney\/Pixar Trailer<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nAnxious Days<\/strong><\/h2>\n***
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We\u2019re going to get into some spoilers from here on out, so if you haven\u2019t seen Inside Out 2<\/em>, you might want to stop here and return once you have.<\/p>\n
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In Riley\u2019s emotional control room, we see a symbol of Riley\u2019s core beliefs\u2014a beautiful, flower-like thing that glows in the background. This is a product of countless memories that feed into those beliefs. And because Joy\u2019s been conscientiously culling Riley\u2019s negative memories, that flower is pretty beautiful. Every memory strand that goes into it re-affirms that Riley is \u201ca good friend\u201d or \u201ckind\u201d or, very simply, a \u201cgood person.\u201d<\/p>\n
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But when Anxiety takes over, she creates memories that can run counter to that self-identity.<\/p>\n
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Anxiety\u2019s not bad<\/em>: She just wants Riley to think about the consequences if she doesn\u2019t work as hard as she ought to or makes a bad decision. She compares herself to fear, who keeps Riley safe from all the things she can see: busy streets, hot stoves, that sort of thing. Anxiety\u2019s around to keep her safe from the things she can\u2019t<\/em> see: If Riley doesn\u2019t pay attention in hockey camp, for instance, Riley might not make the hockey team. If Riley doesn\u2019t make new friends, she could be all alone in high school.<\/p>\n
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***But while all that\u2019s well and good, Anxiety rips away Riley\u2019s existing flower of core beliefs and starts sending new formative moments into the lake of Riley\u2019s core beliefs\u2014memories that remind her when she let people down or didn\u2019t work hard enough. And as those messages grow ever more numerous, Riley\u2019s core belief about who she is begins to twist. It moves from I\u2019m a good person<\/em> to I\u2019m not good enough<\/em>.<\/p>\n
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Riley in Inside Out 2, screenshot courtesy Disney\/Pixar Trailer<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nWorthless<\/strong><\/h2>\n*******
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I\u2019m not good enough.<\/em><\/p>\n
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Those words can haunt many of us\u2014especially those of us who\u2019ve struggled with anxiety or depression at some point. And when we watch Riley\u2019s own struggle with out-of-control anxiety, we remember that beautiful little flower of core beliefs and we wish that we could go back to that. That\u2019s so much healthy, right?<\/p>\n
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*******Well, maybe. In a way. But honestly, both<\/em> versions of Riley\u2019s core beliefs are built on a misperception of who Riley is. In a nice mirror of the first movie, the goal isn\u2019t to get Riley back to the state she was in, but bring her forward to a more realistic\u2014and dare I say it, more biblical<\/em>\u2014state. Let me explain.<\/p>\n****
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Fear, Sadness, Anger, Joy and Disgust in Inside Out 2, screenshot courtesy Disney\/Pixar Trailer<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nMixed Messages<\/strong><\/h2>\n*********
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As Anxiety plays havoc with Riley\u2019s emotional state, Joy leads most of our familiar emotions across Riley\u2019s mind, hoping to retrieve her childhood flower of core beliefs. And as the trek gets ever more challenging, one of Joy\u2019s fellow emotions tells her that she\u2019s delusional. Joy snaps at him: Of course<\/em> she\u2019s delusional! She has to be sometimes, giving all the sniping her workmates do. It\u2019s not easy being so sunny all the time, y\u2019know.<\/em><\/p>\n
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And honestly, Riley\u2019s old flower of core beliefs was built on the same sort of delusion.<\/p>\n
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We mentioned that Joy had long catapulted unpleasant memories to the farthest recesses of Riley\u2019s brain. Joy\u2019s intentions, as always, were good: Let\u2019s not let inconvenient facts get in the way of how you see yourself.<\/em> (You\u2019d think she would\u2019ve learned from the first Inside Out<\/em> movie, right?) And Riley\u2019s so much happier\u2014and honestly, better\u2014if she thinks of herself as a good person. If she thinks of herself as kind, for instance, she acts more kindly to feed that reality.<\/p>\n
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But none of us our kind all the time, and the Bible tells us so. We are fallen creations, and if left to our own whims, we\u2019ll do some pretty terrible things. We have the capacity to be cruel and hateful. We can\u2014and do\u2014hurt the people we love.<\/p>\n
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Riley\u2019s previous core belief told her that she was a \u201cgood person.\u201d But according to Christian doctrine, we\u2019re not. We\u2019ve all fallen short of what God had hoped for us. We\u2019ve all been bad. We\u2019ve all sinned.<\/p>\n
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*********But what Anxiety ultimately brings to the party is no better.<\/p>\n
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Riley in Inside Out 2, screenshot courtesy Disney\/Pixar Trailer<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nFallen Creatures<\/strong><\/h2>\n***********
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When you deal with depression or anxiety, as I have, Riley\u2019s statement that she\u2019s not good enough <\/em>can hit like a swinging 2-by-4. I was probably a little younger than Riley when I\u2019m not good enough<\/em> became my own core belief. And I deal with those feelings even now.<\/p>\n
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But I don\u2019t think you need to be clinically depressed or anxious to struggle with a sense of worthlessness. Maybe most of us feel like we\u2019re not good enough during a season, or in a particular environment. We can feel that we\u2019re failures at a job. That we can\u2019t do anything right with a group of friends. We can feel like we\u2019re perennially disappointing our parents, or our spouse, or our kids. We\u2019re not good enough.<\/p>\n
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But if we embrace that message, we\u2019re embracing another lie\u2014one far more debilitating than the first.<\/p>\n
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In Inside Out 2<\/em>, we see what Riley does to get better. To try to wipe away those feelings of failure. But ultimately, she freezes: She suffers a panic attack. And inside her, Anxiety has locked up, too. And all the other emotions with her seem almost helpless to redirect.<\/p>\n
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And man, that\u2019s the way anxiety and mental illness can truly feel. Our fears become ruts that we can\u2019t get out of. Our regrets can throw us into holes we can\u2019t climb past. We freeze. Joy? It doesn\u2019t get through. Anger? Not much better chance. It\u2019s even hard for Sadness to make a dent. We\u2019re frozen, like a computer that just can\u2019t boot up.<\/p>\n
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***********Our anxiety can overwhelm us\u2014leaving us powerless in its wake.<\/p>\n****
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Bottled-up emotions in Inside Out 2, screenshot courtesy Disney\/Pixar Trailer<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nHug It (Inside) Out<\/strong><\/h2>\n*************
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Those overwhelming feelings of worthlessness are lies too, of course. I think they\u2019re lies straight from the Evil One\u2014whispers meant to tear us away from God, from hope, from everything we value and love. But those lies can be so convincing. Why? Because they are lies rooted in our own memories. Lies that ultimately form the core of who we believe ourselves to be. And as such, they can be so hard to fight.<\/p>\n
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But I love what Inside Out 2<\/em> does to combat those lies.<\/p>\n
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In the midst of Riley\u2019s panic attack, her friends\u2014people who\u2019ve been treated pretty shabbily by Riley for most of the movie\u2014skate over to her to make sure she\u2019s OK. They make sure Riley knows they care. They love her. And they\u2019re with her, no matter what.<\/p>\n
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At the same time, we see something similar take place in Riley\u2019s mind. Anxiety is utterly locked up\u2014spinning faster than you can see and yet, utterly frozen in place. And what does Joy do? She comes alongside. She touches her. She holds her. And soon, all the emotions are hugging.<\/p>\n
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And that, I think, is the key for those I\u2019m not good enough feelings.<\/p>\n
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I\u2019ve sometimes described mental illness as being locked away in a dungeon. Maybe there\u2019s a barred window 20 feet up or something, but not close enough to look out of. Certainly not close enough to reach. The jail door is locked, and no one\u2014not your best friend, not your mother or father, not your spouse\u2014has the key.<\/p>\n
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So what can you do if you\u2019re on the outside? What can you do if you\u2019re desperately trying to help the person locked inside?<\/p>\n
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You sit by that window and remind them that you\u2019re there. That you love them. And that won\u2019t change.<\/p>\n
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*************To know that you\u2019re not alone\u2014that\u2019s big. To know that you\u2019re loved when you\u2019re at your most unlovable\u2014that\u2019s even bigger.<\/p>\n****
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From Inside Out 2, screenshot courtesy Disney\/Pixar Trailer<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nThe Cosmic Takeaway<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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That\u2019s what God does with us, after all. And really, Riley\u2019s story arc is an echo of one that began in the Garden of Eden itself. We were created to be beautiful. To be wonderful. To be God\u2019s crowning glories. To be, in Riley\u2019s words, good people. But along the way, we fell. And no matter how hard we try, we will fail again. There will be times we won\u2019t be good enough<\/em>. And we\u2019ll never be good enough to bridge the gulf between us and God.<\/p>\n
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So what does God do? He loves us. He holds us. He forgives us. He reminds us that, no matter what we\u2019ve done, we have a place with Him if we ask for it. And we broken creatures can still be beautiful.<\/p>\n
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Yep, Inside Out 2<\/em> is a pretty great film. And one of the reasons why is simply this: It reminds us that we don\u2019t have to be lovely to be loved. We don\u2019t have to be perfect to be redeemed.<\/p>\n
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