Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Wall-E


This will win the Oscar. This is how computer animated movies used to be. None of this Cars, Madagascar, Shrek shit, but some actual very thought out plot, stellar animated work, and a conscious moral. This one will be a classic and always remembered and the other 1oo computer animated family movies will be forgotten. This is how movies are supposed to be made. This movie is basically about a robot left on Earth to clean up the garbage so that humans can come back to Earth. 700 years later and Wall-E is the only working robot left. Finally someone returns to Earth and instantly Wall-E falls in love with Eve. Eve is on a mission and once she finds it, she sends her signal to go home with the goods. Wall-E's, Eve's and all the human's journey begins.
This movie was so adorable. A very realistic account of first love. An innocent love. The humans on the cruise were adorable. The specialized robots were so cute. The whole movie was just down right heart melting. In fact, I'm sure I heard my heart melt. I had warm fuzzy feelings long after the movie. The message of the movie was that everyone needs to be taken care of, and the longing to belong and be part of a community and to be loved was very prevalent in all animal drives.
Probably the one thing looking back at it now is that the creators didn't need to make it so obvious that Wall-E was a boy and Eve was a girl. To be clear, these are robots. They don't have a sexual orientation. That the only kind of love there is, is the one that exists between a man and a woman. That Wall-E was lonely, but even having a friend he could actually talk to would have precipitated his loneliness. This is the sort of image that is forced down everyone's throats. It's the kind of imagery that will make its mark on children. Boys have to be with girls. What an uproar this movie would have been if say the robots both seemed male. Is that where children's movies will ever go? Or is this a place where children's movies will never go? It's very confusing for children to think that they need to be in a sexual relationship with someone at an early age. This is why children have sex so young. Our sexual gender roles are being compromised by the over stimulation of it in the media. Any tween and teen who is single feels like a freak, and out of place because they don't have a sexual relationship with anyone. This is the kind of stuff that creates insecurities for people who don't know how to let other people in and for people who don't know how to be single and completely dependent on another person to make them happy. Certainly Pixar films are loaded with content that can be discussed and carefully looked at. This is the reason why Pixar films are so much better than Disney and Dreamworks films... Pixar had it right the first time.
Anyways. This is a must see. If you don't see this, you are missing out on a classic. This movie is just good 'ol fun to watch and be a part of.

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