Sunday, December 18, 2011

Wall E


Nobody likes to be lonely, not even Wall E, a robot, who leads a lonely existence on earth.  Earth is covered with litter and human beings live in a large space ship in outer space.  His job is collecting waste (e-waste), and compressing them into cubes and then arranging them.  The year is 2775 and 700 years ago, human beings left for outer space in a giant ship called Axiom.  This ship is controlled by machine "Auto."  Human beings have still not lost hope of living on a planet, and so send probes periodically to other planets to check for signs of life.  One such probe robot named Eva lands on earth and Wall E is head over heels in love with her.  He befriends her and invites her to his home and shows her his latest collection, a young plant that he has discovered.  Eva immediately places the plant inside her and goes into sleep mode as her mission is accomplished.  Wall E tries to revive her but to no avail.  When the mother ship comes to collect Eva, Wall E also jumps on it and thus reaches Axiom, where he sees human beings for the first time.  Human beings are now obese, fully machine dependent, unable to walk.  Wall E befriends a few of them.

The captain of the ship is happy on seeing Eva’s finding on earth, and decides to take Axiom back to Earth but Auto, the machine, which controls the Axiom is against it and a mutiny ensues and how Wall E, Eva, and his friends overcome this major obstacle forms the rest of the story.

The movie touches many aspects of life such as friendship, loneliness, environmental degradation, too much dependence on technology, artificialness of virtual life.

Direction, screenplay, and story by Andrew Stanton, this is yet another winner from Pixar studios. A must watch even if you are no animation buff.

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