Psychology and Music in Up

Disney Pixar's 'Up' has been widely praised for its sensitive, and accurate, depiction of old age. It follows the life of Carl, who, having lost his wife Ellie, decides to go on the adventure they had always been planning. In this essay, I look at how the music in the film, written by composer Michael Giacchino, acts as an expression of Carl's emotional state, and how the film follows Carl's internal conflict between his integrity versus his despair. This conflict was suggested, by psychoanalyst Erik Erikson (1902-1994), as the key part of the last stage of his psychosocial theory of human development, where a person asks of themselves - 'Is it okay to have been me?'. Through the music in 'Up', I believe we find the answer to this question.

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FURTHER READING/RESEARCH
Erik Erikson - Eight Ages of Man (Childhood and Society): http://local.psy.miami.edu/faculty/dm...

Sam Buttler - ‘Married Life’?: The Intra-diegetic, Thematic Transformation, and Disney Pixar’s Up (2009): https://static.wixstatic.com/ugd/3764...

Ben Winters - The Non-diegetic Fallacy- Film, Music, And Narrative: https://www.scribd.com/document/15152...

MUSIC
Up! Original Soundtrack (Michael Giacchino): https://open.spotify.com/album/4Pr2UB...

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