>>77778960It's not entirely unfair of the mother to request some solidarity from the kid to help the dad through a difficult time, but God damn does the film paint a poor picture of the parents: they seem too caught up in themselves to notice or care about Riley, but then you know they too are also dealing with their own shit so it makes Riley seem like a brat.
It's one of the few aspects of Inside Out that I thought was really underplayed and not fully explored. Riley wasn't fleshed out enough for us to get why she went insular and bitter. She didn't seem headstrong and willfull at all when we first meet her, but her reactions when D, A and F are left to fend for her, indicate so. But then shit like this would have happened before, surely. The way the emotions deal with it suggests otherwise. Fuck.
