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Mind Squad 2: Embracing the complexity of people

Entertainment Value Officer 2024/07/11 20:20

Written by丨Liu Nana

Editor丨Meiqi

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Although it is a movie for children, "Mind Squad 2" is also a movie that adults are hotly discussed. On social media, adults expressed their feelings after watching the movie, calling it a psychology textbook-style movie. Some netizens even said on Douban that watching this movie was like a psychological counseling.

The entertainment value officer observed in the movie theater that there were many children who laughed and many adults who shed tears. Perhaps, this is the huge emotional impact that the anxious part of East Asian culture brings to the audience when it is visualized.

Walking out of the theater, we finally learn to reconcile with our own anxieties.

Entertainment Value Officer, "Mind Squad 2": Accepting the complexity of people

Entertainment Value Officer, "Mind Squad 2": Accepting the complexity of people

Not just for adolescence

Qinqin, a sixth-grader in Beijing's Haidian District, watched Mind Squad 2 with her friends. After the movie, the children discussed their thoughts on the plot of the movie. "I don't want to let my focus get out of control just because of 'I'm great.'" Her best friend made a fuss and thought that the mourning was actually very cute. Another friend believes that people should not only have two situations: "I'm great" or "I'm bad", but the movie plays a "complex" whole.

Qinqin's mother didn't expect her three 11-year-old children to get so much inspiration from this movie, and her mother also said that she had a more specific understanding of Qinqin's "rebellious period".

Qinqin's mother told the entertainment value officer that "Mind Agent 2" is a movie worth watching for all children around 10 years old. Qinqin, who was in pre-adolescence, often lost her temper for no apparent reason, and the well-behaved little girl now became jealous and even lied about some trivial things.

Mom's mother is very helpless about Qinqin's rebellious performance, but this movie is like a psychiatrist who helps Qinqin understand her "growing pains". It also allows parents who watch movies to find a way to get along with their children. 

Entertainment Value Officer, "Mind Squad 2": Accepting the complexity of people

Although the story is based on the overseas market, the important scene "Jiaojiao" in "Mind Agent Team 2" is very much in line with Chinese families.

"Anxiety" may be a point of empathy for Chinese children, and even for children in East Asia. Under the high expectations of parents hoping for their son Jackie Chan, children start to learn ahead of kindergarten and compete with each other from learning to honor, and the theater effect accompanies middle-class parents and children to run blindfolded together, and life is often controlled by anxiety.


On social media, you can see the audience's collective reflection, "East Asian kids want to cry just by hearing lines like the core consciousness tree saying that I'm a great person" "Love yourself, accept yourself, embrace all experiences and emotions" "Jiao Jiao should be an East Asian" "Anxiety At the end of the day, when I cried in front of the console because of too much pressure, Joy said let it go. I literally cried to death. It's really hard to learn to live peacefully with your various emotions" You see, triggering positive thinking is the embodiment of the social value of a literary and artistic work.

Entertainment Value Officer, "Mind Squad 2": Accepting the complexity of people

Children can understand it

Psychology textbooks

"Mind Squad" has a close connection with psychology, showing the concepts of emotions, memory, and the subconscious mind in psychology in a concrete way. "Mind Agent" is one of the must-see movies recommended by Zhao Yukun, a positive psychology tutor at Tsinghua University, to psychology students, which shows that the academic value of this work is very high.

Emotions and Memory: The film personifies basic emotions through characters such as anxiety, happiness, sadness, disgust, fear, anger, frustration, etcThese emotions not only represent the basic emotional experience of human beings, but are also an important part of personal memory and mental health. Through the interaction of characters, the film explores the influence of human emotions on memory formation and memory storage, and how emotions affect individual behavior and decision-making 

Entertainment Value Officer, "Mind Squad 2": Accepting the complexity of people

The film emphasizes that every emotion has its meaning and valueFor example, behind anxiety is the desire to perform better, and sadness is not only negative and depressed, but also intellectual, empathetic, and healing of one's own soul. Through the storyline of the movie, the audience learns how to correctly recognize and accept emotions.

Entertainment Value Officer, "Mind Squad 2": Accepting the complexity of people

In the movie "Mind Squad 2", the character of Jiaojiao, who represents "anxiety", becomes a central setting in the film, reflecting one of the key changes from childhood to adulthood. One of the costs of adulthood mentioned in the film is diffuse anxiety, which coincides with the idea of emotional development and expression in psychologyIn adulthood, people no longer express emotions as directly as they did in childhood, and learn to suppress certain emotions such as anxiety, guilt, and shame, which develop in order to adapt to the social environment and meet social expectations.

This change is reflected in the increased complexity of the emotional system, people begin to learn to disguise their emotions, and emotional manifestations become more social, i.e., the desire to present an ideal self in front of others. This change is a sign of maturity, but it also means that the individual is gradually moving away from his true self.

Entertainment Value Officer, "Mind Squad 2": Accepting the complexity of people

"Mind Squad 2" can give us some deeper understanding of the emotional mechanism of the brain and the psychological problems of teenagers, and it will also be a good inspiration for how children perceive success and failure. This movie actually inspires and guides the characteristics of adolescent behavior and psychological problems, as well as the help needed. It is no exaggeration to say that this is a handbook for adolescent counseling for parents who are caught off guard by their adolescent children.

Entertainment Value Officer, "Mind Squad 2": Accepting the complexity of people

Unpopular themes

Double box office + word of mouth

As of the writing of the entertainment value officer, Maoyan Professional Edition data shows that "Mind Agent 2" has a cumulative box office of 287 million yuan and has earned more than $1.25 billion at the box office worldwide. This achievement made it surpass "The Incredibles 2" and become the highest-grossing animated film in the history of Pixar. To date, United States domestic box office revenue has reached $543.5 million, compared with $708 million in other regions.


"Mind Squad 2" currently ranks fourth on the list of the highest-grossing animated films of all time, behind only "Frozen" ($1.29 billion), "The Super Mario Bros. Movie" ($1.36 billion) and "Frozen 2" ($1.45 billion).

9 years ago, the creator of Pixar's "Mind Squad" had a whim and decided to make such an indescribable topic as "emotion" into an animated story, and there was no villain, with the emotional impact of the little girl Riley after moving and the wonderful adventure of emotions in the brain as the main line, and the market did not expect it high before the release of the film.

When the audience found that our daily emotions of joy, anger, sorrow and fear were personified, and intuitively saw how they manipulated the ups and downs and fluctuations of our emotions, the first wave of word-of-mouth effect took effect, and soon the box office followed, "Mind Agent" had a global box office of 800 million US dollars, and Metacritic and Douban scores of 94 and 8.8 points, winning the scenery decently.

Entertainment Value Officer, "Mind Squad 2": Accepting the complexity of people

Human emotions are diverse

Nine years later, the story of the sequel, Mind Squad 2, does not disappoint, and as Riley grows up and enters puberty, the 12-year-old begins to develop pimples, anxiety about the new environment ahead, lying, and rebellious...... What she encounters is the "emotionality" that all adolescent children can empathize with.

Entertainment Value Officer, "Mind Squad 2": Accepting the complexity of people

The main creative team has grasped the most critical factor in adolescent children's emotions - anxiety for deconstruction, and there is still no setting of negative characters, because all emotions are worthy of acceptance, and only after being accepted can they regain their calm. Stories are not only inspiring to teenagers, but also soothing.

When we fully accept the complexity of human beings after watching the movie, and honestly face our own insecurities and anxieties, it will be easier for us to perceive happiness and peace.

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