PopcornScale Rating: Caramel PopcornYou'll walk out of the theater with your thoughts stirred and your heart warmed, because this is a completely genuine little movie with an intriguing scenario: Earth, 700 years from now, is completely deserted, and all that is to be seen are mounds and mounds of garbage, stretching on forever. There is no organic life to be seen, except for a cockroach.
Meet WALL*E [Waste Allocation Load Lifter, Earth-class], who we meet as he carries out his function as a robot, turning piles of rubbish into neat cubes and piling these into buildings. He doesn't say anything, but has a wholesome charm to him, because he is interested in quaint little things that humans left behind, and he has a huge collection of things ranging from gnomes to sporks to fire-lighters. And in particular, we see his obsession with a videotape of an old musical, with two humans singing a love song to one another. It is so enchanting to watch this metal-and-bolts thing so drawn to something so full of humanity and life, and so full of humanity itself.
The movie revolves around his encounter with a new robot who has arrived from the spaceship where all humans now reside, and his romance with this robot. Though the idea seems silly - two robots in love - it is done with a refreshingly beautiful simplicity, like an old silent film, that it is really believable.
The movie is more than just a cute robot romance, it also has political and social implications - we see that a consumer brand "BnL" is also the global CEO...so we see that materialism and luxury has taken over the world..and destroyed it. And when you meet the humans of 2700 on the spaceship, you are in for a huge shock....actually, it isn't a shock, it is shockingly predictable what the state of humans is. It is something of a cautionary tale, because this could be the direction that we are headed.
I wholeheartedly recommend this film - it is one of Pixar's best, if not their very best. See this movie - it does not matter whether you are 5 or 50, this movie will move you in the most unexpectedly nostalgic way, while making you think.
5 comments:
Good post...though I have not seen WALL-E, Ravleen, I will definitely now see it..thanks to you.
By the way, how did you get the image of WALL-E and glue it to your post..I have been trying to do that for my Raiders of the Lost Ark film review.
Yeah, you should go see it. :D
So, to post an image, first you get the URL of the image. That is important, the URL of IMAGE, not of the PAGE it is on. Then, when posting, there's a little image icon, click on it and it tells you what to do. Call me if you need more help.
Uh...please help me over the phone....or whenever you come here.
Did you go see it with Manne?
Yeah, Manne and also Titu Tyaji's family (he's your relative as well).
I know...Jason Castro has a beautiful voice!
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