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Of course, what makes that transformation so affecting is the stunning performance of Joaquin Phoenix. In Phoenix's hands Arthur Fleck feels like a fully realized human, albeit one who is deeply damaged and disturbed. But this is no surprise, we know from experience that he can endow even the most repulsive and despicable character with depth and raw emotion and do it in such a way that the resulting sympathy we feel for that character only serves to make him that much more frightening.

Just the presence of Bing-Bong is bone-crushingly heartbreaking. It reminds me of the song 'More Than a Feeling" by Boston (which was in fact used in the trailers, excellent choices of music). Actually, it may describe the entire film. Bing-Bong can, "still recall as I want to know" (lyric from the song), but Riley no longer has interest. On the flip side, Riley can remember all the wonderful, spotless things about Minnesota, but reality doesn't allow her to go back in time. Inside Out is a film that can be described as a sparkling, energetic collision of emotions and memories, they crumble, and then are shaped in a different form, improved, as we grow up and enter chaotic society, and when we look back, "the faces fade as the years go by", but the experiences, the touching moments and the heart-pounding thrill rides of bonding and separating, ceaselessly beating back and forth under a lonely night view remain inside us, and complete us. It is obvious that the writers studied actual psychology, instead of movie versions. Inside Out captures the sublime beauty of all of the above in simply 102 minutes.

I really just want you all angry and confused the whole time.

Joker (Todd Phillips, 2019)

Aspiring stand-up comic Joaquin Phoenix feels neglected by the world and decides to do something.

Inside Out (Pete Docter & Ronaldo Del Carmen, 2015)

The inner emotions of an eleven-year-old girl are introduced. She's just moved from Minnesota to San Francisco, so besides trying to fit in at her new school, she remembers what she no longer has.