The Ideological Implication of Inner Conflict in The Animated Movie Inside Out (2024): A Multimodal Critical Stylistic Analysis

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  This paper presents a multimodal critical stylistic analysis of inner conflict in the American animated movie Inside Out (2024), the second part of the franchise. Being a recent release, the movie reflects current societal and cultural ideologies related to emotional expression and identity as the sequel introduces new characters, settings, and visual techniques, providing a rich ground for multimodal analysis. It aims to explore the key verbal and visual elements employed to deliver the characters’ inner conflict and show their integration to produce a combined narrative of such conflict. Additionally, it seeks to uncover the ideologies related to inner conflict embedded in the characters’ language and visual modes. This study adopts a qualitative approach for analysing two selected scenes of Inside Out that convey in their layers the theme of inner conflict during adolescence. The analysis is based on an eclectic model that covers the visual level and the linguistic one. Jeffries’s framework (2010) is devoted for the linguistic part while Kress and van Leeuwen's model (2006) is utilized for the visual one. The researchers find out that the concept of inner conflict is obviously exposed through the integration between the character’s expressions as well as their non-verbal language. Moreover, such mixing contributes in revealing various ideologies like resistance, doubt and regret that accompany inner conflict.