There's a list, based on a book, called 1001 movies to see before you die (or 1079 according to supplementary editions), and I intend to see them all, along with two other bloggers: La cinerata (from Argentina) and El café de Rick (from Spain) who already are pursuing the same quest..
Right now, I'll start with a lovely movie, wich, beside being one of the latest inclusions on the list, I just saw it last night, again.
Pixar is one of those producer companies that arrived and changed everithing regarding animation. They just took gigant steps and blew our minds. But I think, that a main virtue they have, is the range of animated scripts they brought to a niche before taken only by fairy tales.
In 1995, Toy Story amazed us with wit and creativity. Thirteen years later Wall-e showed up. And it became an instant epic film...
Taking place more than 700 years in the future, this movie shows us a hypotethical moment after Earth has been abandoned by mankind because of the detriment provoked by our species: The planet in post-apocalyptic state.
Wall-e is "a survivor" in Earth. A robot. A true lover of old human culture. Created to compact and reorganize trash; he will find another reason to live and move forward: Eve.
Eve is a female robot, destined to find any trace of photosynthesis on the planet. Which theoretically, would allow men and women to go back home.
While Earth is shown deserted, living human beings remain in a space ship managing to survive for hundreds of generations, but living an shallow and artificial life.
People don't even need to walk. Then, humans became a weak mass adhered to a computerized device that practically does everything for them. Virtual chat is the first option to talk (even though your interlocutor would be seated next to you). Physical contact has dissapeared. And the command of the ship, kind of a monopolic corporation-goverment; tells everyone what to do, eat or dress. Like a mall-kind-of-life.
At the end of the day, Wall-E and Eve are no other thing than an allegory of a couple of human beings destined to perform one function but, later, who will find a helping calling. And who will find each other.
In a few words, this film hits our consciousness like a bucket of cold water. Reminding our race is destroying its habitat while suffering from ignorance. A race who finds difficult to revert damages. Is an attention call. But is shown as a sweet lesson trough inocent eyes, Wall-E's eyes. And in his quest, he will find a new reason to be better and help others.
The grandeur of the film, beside its aesthetic animation beauty, lies on narrate an ecological, transcendent story. A movie that accomplishes on creating conciousness of the chaos we make, showing a possible future and also, a solution. A feature film that will leave you thinking and, at the same time, will leave a smile upon your face.
2 comments:
great film, poetic...
It's so nice that you also liked it!
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