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Film & BooksIssue: Aquarius 09 - The Change Issue

WALL-E

walle_200Adorable, funny, and eerily post-apocalyptic, WALL-E is, in short, brilliant, and if you haven’t seen it yet, you must rent this fabulous film made by the Pixar division of Disney.

A cute little robot, WALL-E (the acronym for Waste Allocation Load Lifter - Earth Class), continues his insurmountable task of collecting and compacting trash long after humans have vanished from the Earth. He goes on about his business in the dust-filled, ravaged landscape, collecting treasures and stockpiling them in his little enclave until a robot named EVE arrives on the scene. Instantly smitten, WALL-E follows her on a space journey that will ultimately change the fate of humanity.

This G-rated, computer-generated tale envisions future humans as fat, mindless automatons who have escaped the lifeless earth to a space station where care-taker robots attend to their every need. These lifeless, jelly-like people cruise around on reclined chairs while focused on video screens, drinking out of giant cups. No one can walk or pull away from their computer screen long enough to contemplate where they are and what they have become, until WALL-E.

WALL-E’s pursuit of EVE transports him from earth to the space station and sets off a sequence of events that spurs the captain of the station to action, which stimulates the population. There is a fun homage to “2001, a Space Odyssey” with a HAL-like computer that must complete its contradictory mission. The romance between WALL-E and EVE is fun and silly and totally entertaining, despite the heavy messages in the film.

You will laugh, you will cry, and you will get up from your couch and think again about how to live your life. dots

by Ann JandaSagittarius

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