"Brain Agents" is a family-style film produced by Disney in the United States, which was released in 2015 and received rave reviews, winning many awards such as the 88th Academy Awards for Best Animated Film, the 73rd Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature film and the 69th British Academy Film Awards for Best Animated Film.
"Mind Agent Team" takes the growth of the little girl Riley as the main line, telling the sour, sweet and bittersweet of the child's growth process. Among them, the emotional management of children's growth is particularly important, how parents should do it, the film gives 3 good ways to raise children.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" >, cognitive emotions: learn to accept every emotion</h1>
The famous American psychologist Paul Ekman put forward a view in 1972 that there are 6 main emotions of human beings: anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, and surprise. Drawing on this view, the film defines the five basic emotions that control human behavior as Joy, Sadness, Fear, Disgust, and Anger, and openly visualizes each emotion as a little person in the mind.
The five little people in the little girl Riley's mind are: lele (representing happiness), sadness (representing sadness), fear (representing fear), disgust (representing disgust), and anger (representing anger).
The five mood forms are different, the main color of lele is yellow, dazzling and pleasing; the sorrow is dark blue, and its sad emotions linger; fear is lilac, he is always vigilant; disgust is green, which is consistent with the color of Riley's most hated broccoli; anger is red, and he loves to be angry when things happen. The reason why the film is so designed is closely related to the psychology of color. Yellow is usually associated with sunlight and is therefore associated with happiness; blue represents tranquility, sorrow, and sadness; red is the color of fire, associated with violence and anger, and so on.
In people's subjective cognition, they often feel that the value of happiness is greater than sadness, and children cannot be sad and cry. We always want our children to embrace joy and stay away from sadness. Social culture also encourages us to be lively and extroverted, positive and sunny positive human beings, but this is not the case in actual life, and everyone has their own unhappy and sad times.
Sometimes crying is a good way to vent negative emotions and is a necessary stage in facing life again. As "Melancholy" in the film says, "Crying can help me slow down and not be crushed by the adversity of life." Crying is a way for people to adjust their state, a way to express their inner emotions.
Riley missed a key goal in the hockey game and sat in the tree in the yard crying silently, and it was because of the sadness that her parents listened to Riley's heart and helped her break into laughter. Whether it's joy or sorrow, or fear, disgust, or anger, each is an emotion that people have. Essentially, it doesn't matter if it's good or bad. What parents need to do is to accompany their children, listen to his/her happiness, sadness, anger, disgust and fear, and do not simply and rudely say: be happy, do not be sad, do not be angry, do not be afraid.
Method 1: Let the child correctly recognize the emotion and learn to accept each emotion. Let children understand that every emotion is a part of life, do not have a psychological burden, do not suppress certain labeled emotions, but learn to accept each emotion.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > second, to guide emotions: let emotions not get out of control</h1>
Brainstorm is a movie about growing up. The film was inspired by director Peter Doggett's observations and feelings about his daughter's upbringing. At the age of 11, the daughter suddenly became reticent from lively and active, and director Pete Doggett was both curious and disappointed, and the once eccentric little girl inadvertently completed the transformation and growth of her personality.
Riley, the little girl in the movie, spent a happy childhood in Minnesota and has happy memories that are almost all golden. And when my father's job changed and the family moved to San Francisco, everything changed.
Say goodbye to the familiar way of life, leave the intimate friends, face the unfamiliar environment alone, and meet new friends again. All of this is the test that Riley has to face as she grows up.
On the first day of entering the new campus, Riley messed things up. Back at home, facing her anxious father and hard-working mother, Riley suppressed the emotions in her heart and tried to be an optimistic and cheerful daughter. But for a little girl, it's just too hard.
At the dinner table, all kinds of unpleasant things intertwined, and finally caused a big explosion. Riley loses her temper with her parents, and for the first time, her father scolds Riley loudly, telling her to go to her room to reflect. The mother also had a new dispute with her father, and the family's emotions were agitated, and they could get out of control at any time.
In the process of parent-child growth, there are often cases of emotional loss of control. The child cries for no reason, deliberately contradicts the wishes of the parents, and finally can only end with a big quarrel.
The parents in the movie did relatively well, controlled their emotions in time, and did not let the situation expand further. Then quickly communicate with the child to guide the child out of the negative emotional distress.
Method two: In the process of children's growth, parents' understanding and care is what children need most. Children's emotions are always unstable, and many times there is a danger of getting out of control. Parents need to put themselves in the shoes of empathy with their children, correctly guide their children's emotions, and "cool down" their children's emotions so that they do not exceed the critical value of emotional outbursts, so as to avoid unnecessary consequences caused by emotional loss of control.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > third, manage emotions: let go when it is time to let go</h1>
Most of the production team of "Mind Agents" are parents, and this movie has a lot of their personal feelings. The film's producer, Jonas Rivera, said, ""
The path of human growth is also a process of gradual letting go. As the little girl Riley grows up, the best fantasy playmate popsicles are abandoned in the depths of memory and gradually forgotten; leaving their hometown to study in the big city, the original friends are gradually lost, and the memory is limited to the childhood time; the children grow up step by step, more and more independent, and the parents can only look at their backs and live their own lives...
In the film, Riley has five themed memory islands in her mind, namely Naughty Island, Friendship Island, Hockey Island, Honesty Island and Family Island. In the face of the test of life, Riley's five islands collapsed, the whole person and life were terrible, and the mood was at a low bottom. However, with the understanding and support of her parents, Riley adjusted her emotions and regained her strength, and she rebuilt her memory island. The themes are richer and the emotions more complex. Growing up, Riley adapted to a new environment, made new friends, and started a new life.
Method three: In the process of children's growth, parents should help children manage emotions on the basis of cognition and guidance of emotions. Life cannot be perfect, imperfection is the real life. Life goes up and down, and everyone encounters setbacks and failures. For the past, cherish those good times, but when it is time to let go, you also need to let go. The cost of growing up will be accompanied by pain, and only after experiencing setbacks and experiences can children grow more vigorously.
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On the one hand, the depiction of good childhood memories in the film evokes the good memories of many adults, making it easier for us to enter the inner world of children. On the other hand, the film conveys the importance of emotional management to people in an edutainment and educational way. How to correctly recognize emotions, guide emotions and manage emotions is worth learning and thinking about by every parent.
"Mind Task Force" can not only make the family happy, but also learn the growth recipe of parent-child education, which is worth watching.