Indulgence

A lot of people expressed a certain irritation with the lack of emotion in Inside Out. I do not imagine that the same reaction is felt towards The Front, since it is jam-packed with human emotion ; fear, lust, anger and more!

Still, I find that there is something fickle about it. Perhaps it's the Brecht in me but I find that there is a fine line between eliciting an emotional reaction from and audience, and inspiring an intellectual one. The latter is considered ( at least in the theatre world) to be longer lasting. If you present an audience with a plot in which they become emotional invested, their feelings and thoughts towards it undergo a kind of catharsis once the play/book/movie is over. Putting emotional distance between a story and an audience causes them to contemplate their own stand on the issues discussed. This contemplation is more likely to result in action.

In short, when I read Inside Out I wanted to do something about censorship because my brain wasn't being sedated by sentiment. When I watch The Front, I relax my mind and enjoy a movie, without too serious a thought to the topics discussed.