English, do you speak it?

Over the summer, Disney Pixar released the film Inside Out.  This film features a young girl named Riley's emotions in her head as she moves from Michigan to San Francisco, California.  The film was a truly excellent portrayal of a young person's thoughts and emotions throughout this transition.  At one point in the film, Riley falls into depression and her emotions cannot control her anymore.  In the end, what was understood, is that it's OK to be sad about change and growing up and that life won't be just one emotion at a time but many emotions all together.  I felt that this movie was truly ground breaking in how society and individuals view depression.  However, Riley's depression is solved in the movie by talking to her parents, which is not accurate because, in most cases, depression doesn't just go away all at once.  I really appreciated that depression in young people is now becoming a mainstream topic of discussion because that topic really hits close to home with me.  The portrayal of a person's thought process, interest, and experience of emotions was truly excellent.  I also loved seeing the contrast of how Riley's parents' emotions behaved and how her emotions behaved.  There was also this portrayal of becoming more emotionally fluent as the emotions in Headquarters got a bigger "control panel."