The premiere of “Inside Out 2“, a tape that talks about the puberty and the anxiety attacksprovoked various reactions on social networks regarding growth and even the mental health in the teenagers.
In “3, 2… One“, the Unotv.com film podcast, Claudia Lando and Alfredo Narvaez review some films that, as well as the most recent release of Pixarportray the difficulties of growing up.
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“Inside Out 2”, a sequel that explores the difficult path of growing up
With just over two weeks on the billboard, “Inside Out 2” Not only is it the highest-grossing film so far in 2024, but it speaks to the rise of the anxiety during the pubertyas well as other emotions.
In the first installment, the protagonist Riley faced a problem of depression and, on this occasion, suffers from an anxiety disorder due to the emergence of emotions such as shame, boredom and envy.
As she grows up, the young girl faces school changes and the possibility of her friends moving away. She also struggles to deal with the fact that her future is in the process of being defined.
Other films that portray the difficulty of growing up
“The Pan’s Labyrinth”
Eighteen years before “Inside Out 2“, Guillermo del Toro He launched “The Pan’s Labyrinth“, in which Ophelia He faces the fact that his mother married a Francoist captain of the Spanish postwar periodShe will take refuge in fairy tales to alienate herself from the horrors of the war conflicts that surround her.
“The Children of the Street”
An unfortunate mistake will define the rest of four’s lives teenagers who live in a slum of NYfacing horrible consequences that no growing child should have to suffer. Kevin Bacon, Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman and Brad Pitt star “The Children of the Street“.
“Coraline and the secret door”
In addition to “Inside Out 2“, another animated film that talks about the challenges of growing up is “Coraline and the secret door“. A girl moves to a remote village, far from her friends, unleashing a strong conflict with her mother. To get away from her gray reality, she enters a door that takes her to a colorful world where everything is better, for a moment.
“Where the monsters live”
A child will learn to obey his parents and exercise the value of responsibility in “Where the monsters live” when he is sent to bed without dinner. Angry with everything, he escapes to a world where he will coexist with beasts that compete between the wild and the innocent.
“Lord of the Flies”
What worse scenario to grow up in than on a desert island with a bunch of kids? Based on the novel of the same name by William Golding“Lord of the Flies“portrays the story of a group of children who must learn to organize themselves in order to survive in the face of adversity.
“If I had 30”
Jenna Rinkinterpreted by Jennifer Garner, wants to be 30 and skip all the humiliations of school. However, in “If I had 30” He will realize that by skipping adolescence, he did not learn the necessary lessons to be a good person, realizing that he has become someone he does not want to be.
Other movies about teenagers growing up like “Inside Out 2”
“The advantages of being invisible”
A few years after Riley’s age in “Inside Out 2“Charlie unknowingly faces trauma as she writes letters to someone special about her new school, her introduction to substances, and her first contact with a strange love of many faces. Logan Lerman, Emma Watson and Ezra Miller star in “The advantages of being invisible“.
“The club of five”
A brain, an athlete, an irresponsible woman, a princess and a criminal star in “The club of five“. This movie about hard growth confronts its protagonists with the stereotypes that adults have made about them, forcing them to see that no prejudice is true enough to define them.
“Sing Street”
In “Sing Street“A group of young people take refuge in music to forget that their respective family nuclei are broken and that Ireland lives in a still incomprehensible conflict with England. Teachers and authorities do not make the path of growing up easier.
The global launch of “Inside Out 2” is the pretext to talk about how cinema has portrayed the youth and the adolescence as a forward process in people’s lives.
