Wall-E

Despite the fact that the main character of the movie is robot, the story itself is about qualities which are so common to human beings and define them as such: curiosity, love, courage, friendship, loyalty. The story line starts with the last creature on the Earth, the remains of its late human inhabitants, the only survivor among robots left to clean the planet from the enormous piles of garbage left behind – Wall-E (narrated by Ben Burtt). His curiosity makes him an enthusiastic collector and a friend of cute cock-roach. It later helps him to fall in love with lady-robot, Eve (narrated by Elissa Knight), which is really nice even though very bad-tempered. Wall-E’s struggle to love leads him to discovering where the humans are now and what are they nowadays.  Bravely and loyally following his feelings, Wall-E makes lots of new friends and helps humans to find themselves again and their way home.

One more masterpiece from Disney and PIXAR in addition to being extremely beautiful amazes us with the amount of love devoted to every robot. This time the cartoon-makers were again true creators. Every robot has the scent of his own “personality”, which awakes him from the duty when meeting Wall-E. In this intent humans do not feel to be superior to their creations, they are truly equal, which is immediately felt with the watcher’s heart. In some respect, this time robots are even better than humans, as they still contain some habits and emotions, humans seem to have lost along ago.

The movie is full with positive attitude. You can’t stay sad after watching it. Here and there there will be a joke to make you laugh and remember. The anxiety of Wall-E being in love and trying to approach his perfect queen will make you smile. The robots forced to choose between logical imperatives in their heads will make you giggle. The stupidity of humans, us, being just round bags of lazy flash will make you laugh. Indeed the situation in which we appear in the movie is ridiculous and funny. Despite this we still are the same inside. My beloved character, Mary still feels the same – she is tired of the repeating internet dates and searches for something different, some live feelings – and sais the same – “John, get ready to have some kids!” even though in the conditions, which make us roll laughing.

The story written by Andrew Stanton and Pete Doctor, which allowed Andrew Stanton and Jim Reardon to create their incredible screen play, has variety of philosophical issues touched and left for us to think about. What are we doing with our planet? – We had to abandon it and escape to space in order to survive, it is piled with garbage, satellites soil the atmosphere, even Moon has ads. What our laziness is leading us to? – 700 years later we do not remember how to move and do not know that we have a swimming pool and jogging track on the space ship or how to open a book. Can we think independently? – “Try blue! It’s the new red!” the buyers are recommended by a digital voice and everyone buys it the same instant. The main idea though is announced by the captain “You came a long way for a drink of water…” to the plant – the ball in the game for our freedom. The same way humanity made a huge 700-years trip in order to come home, back to Earth, in order to rediscover that the curiosity is still common to us and “captain” is a state of mind not a position only.

Despite its main audience, the movie itself is not that childish as you might anticipate. There are plenty of layers, where every age and personality can find something for him/herself. There is romantic line of love story worthy of any novel. There is philosophical judgment of our natural laziness and tendency to follow instead of to think. There is humor in the best traditions of light and at the same time very clever, the best movies’ humor. There is enough of science fiction for whose who has a habit to search wisdom among the stars. There is a great mix of ours everyday life and dreams that can’t leave anyone indifferent. In the end, how can anyone miss Mary finally finding her John?