Joy The Movie Essay

Although Joy is presented as the ideal feeling, Sadness is a valuable and necessary emotion; therefore the film asserts the importance of embracing sadness instead of ignoring or attempting to correct it.
Throughout the movie, the other emotions, predominantly Joy, talk down upon Sadness, and she receives the foot of the blame in most situations. Joy’s condescending diction is directed toward Sadness when she touches the memories, and they begin to turn blue. Joy’s carefully chosen words and tone of voice, similar to that used when scolding a dog, are not one of someone who is being kind. They are patronizing and rude to someone who is just as valuable as everyone else. Joy’s negative attitude and language toward Sadness reveal her views on the disposability of the down-in-the-dumps character. Joy, along with the other emotions, are not sure of Sadness’s purpose, and feel as though she causes
This worthlessness is exemplified in the amount of physical space she takes up. Sadness recognizes that the other emotions see her as a burden and takes it upon herself to try and stay out of their hair. For the most part, she keeps to herself and stands apart from the others, remaining quiet out of fear of judgement and disappointment. Sadness’s isolation not only reveals how others view her, but how she views herself--useless and unworthy. Feelings go hand-in-hand with sad people--uselessness and unworthiness. However, these feelings didn’t just arise, they were created by society. Society chooses to see feelings of sadness as wrong. Society decides to attempt to correct these feelings. Society dictates how people view others in times of joy and anger, disgust and fear. In times of sadness. Sadness being the only one society deems wrong, even when it is a necessary emotion that everyone must feel at some point to move on. A feeling that is completely