Inside Out

Hello, Riley! Look at you, aren't you a little bundle of joy!

Come back here you little monkey! Oh you're silly!

It's official: I'm a dad. And I found so many themes in this movie to be all too relatable, which may explain why this movie was a 90-minute cry-fest for me. It is a fascinating artistic vision of an incredibly deep and complex topic: What makes us who we are?
From the moment Riley first opened her eyes, she began to experience the world and make memories. And the very first memory she made was a happy one. We see her formative years and how the experiences she had influenced the young woman that she became. And it was impossible for me not to think about my own kids and the memories that they're making. Every experience, good or bad, happy or angry, scared or sad, leaves an impression.
From Wikipedia: Josh Cooley and Meg LeFauve were credited as co-writers of the screenplay following their contributions during the rewrite. Like Docter, Cooley and LeFauve included experiences with raising their own children into the screenplay. Cooley said "... we treated the emotions like parents for Riley and because all of us in the writing room are parents ourselves, we just reflected on our own experiences as parents to create the characters."
And when Goof-Ball Island came crashing down into the abyss, lost forever, I broke down sobbing. She was growing up, no longer Daddy's silly little monkey. And she never would be again.
The artistic imagination of this movie is something I never could have come up with: the working relationship between Riley's different emotions is not what I would have expected, but it made perfect sense in the movie. And as we peer into the inner-workings of Riley's parents' minds, we see how differently their emotions worked together.
This movie tackles some very deep issues, and does so brilliantly. It's without doubt one of the best movies I have ever seen.