2024.
We join Riley's world when she is 13. Her now stable emotions of joy, sadness, anger and disgust have created a sense of self and she is happily going along when puberty strikes and a host of new and complex emotions land up - anxiety, envy, disgust and ennui - and they make Riley do things she normally would not. Well, until she gets a grip on herself.
So much is stuff that teenagers go through that at many times we were laughing at how similar the circumstances are - clearing up rooms, mobile usage, apathetic answers, belligerence at being questioned. Anjali said she could not stop crying when she saw what Riley was going through - perhaps identified with herself. It ends with the thought that yes, we all have these complex emotions that make us behave less than perfect but that's ok - we love our kids just as they are.
Brilliant as always.
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