If the impression you got was &quot;anger is bad and abstract thought is risky,&quot; then I&#x27;m not sure what movie you watched, but it definitely wasn&#x27;t Inside Out.<p>You&#x27;re mistaken about &quot;anger&quot; being purely a cultural&#x2F;linguistic construction, and about the authenticity of Inside Out&#x27;s psychological model in general: the film was inspired by (and admittedly somewhat simplifies) solid psychological research, particularly the work of Paul Ekman and Dacher Keltner, whom Pixar brought on as consultants.