Joy In Inside Out

In the movie “Inside Out”, Joy played an important role in keeping the little girl Riley happy all the time and making Riley’s every day joyful and amazing. Joy performed high on extraversion, high on conscientiousness, high on openness, low on neuroticism, and low on agreeableness. For example, in the movie, Joy had infinite energy and a thirst for happiness. For Joy, every day need to be an amazing day, and everyday would be a new adventure in Riley’s life, so that she had no time to think about negative feelings, and just be conscientious to make Riley feel happy. When some obstacles existed, she could be positive and creative to find a way to fix the problem. However, she was too quickly forward-moving to care about others’ feeling because
At the beginning part of the movie, Joy succeed managing and controlling Riley’s good memory and that made Riley fulfilled her self-esteem needs. For example, in the movie, Joy picked a memory ball which was recorded that Riley was cheering her hockey team’s victory with her team members, friends, and family together, and her team members swinging her up over their heads to celebrate victory, this memory made Riley fulfilled her self-esteem needs; in other words, Joy used the memory ball to arouse Riley’s happy memory that she helped her team to win in the hockey match; that enabled Riley to love herself more and feel that she was valuable. Otherwise, at the end of the movie, Joy realized Sadness played an important part in Riley’s memory as well, so she gave Sadness the memory balls to enable Sadness to restore the machine; because of this, Riley realized the most important was that the family lived together rather than wherever she lived. Thus, self-actualization level was
During almost the whole movie, Joy always would have Riley do something fun because Joy wished Riley to just get fun or we can say that Joy wanted to get fun; this could be seen as selfish actually. For example, in the movie, Sadness touched the memory ball and made a sad core memory ball, she really would like to keep it because it was a core memory, but Joy resolutely stopped her, and that made her and Sadness were stocked later. From this example, it was obvious that Joy kept Riley from experiencing any sad feelings so that Riley just need to create happy core memories, which reflected the Id that represents people’s unconscious instinctual trends. At the end of the movie, Joy had realized her problems and would like to balance each character’s work and made a good cooperation with Sadness, Fear, Disgust, and Anger; that seemed reflect Ego. I hypothesize that Joy would act as a coordinator in Head Quarter to balance Riley’s emotions and finally developed Riley’s personality, which reflected