wall e

i recently caught wall-e on the big screens and i must say i am very impressed with pixar's lastest animation installation.
in case you haven't heard what wall-e is about (which planet are living on?!),

here's a little synopsis :

What if mankind had to leave Earth, and somebody forgot to turn the last robot off?
Academy Award(r)-winning writer-director Andrew Stanton ("Finding Nemo") and the inventive storytellers and technical geniuses at Pixar Animation Studios ("The Incredibles," "Cars," "Ratatouille") transport moviegoers to a galaxy not so very far away for a new computer-animated cosmic comedy about a determined robot named WALL*E.

well, we all ( based on the trailers) know that it is also part love story when wall-e falls in love with another robot called eve.
while this love story is heartwarming and puts you in the lovey dovey mood for romance, i felt that it was more of the underlying message that the director's were trying to put across that impressed me throughout.

of coz, the humanization of wall-e blew me away as well even though he hardly spoke a word that was audible.
haha.

i'm gonna spoil this for all of you guys that haven't watched it yet, heh.
i think what sets wall-e apart from the other animations is that interestingly as it sounds, the movie deals with current issues.
not your usual cliched issues like treasuring your loved ones, family values etc but rather, the issue of consumerism which is definitely prevalent in today's time and age.
we just buy and buy and buy... even though we don't really need them.
and what happens in the end?
we end up with alot of thrash and forecasting into the future, we'll have no space for thrash and we end up living somewhere other than on earth (which happened in the movie).

and of coz they touched on the topic of the over-reliance on technology.
everything would very much be automated in the future, just a touch of a button and you get whatvever you want.
your servers would be robots
your meals are liquidated
you communicate through virtual screens
you dont even have to walk - electronic chairs would carry you around.

and because we can do everything virtually,
you will grow fat
grossly fat that you have problems standing on your own feet because you haven't used them in ages.

you don't even know how the human touch is like -
something that really irked me when i saw it.
and i thought for a moment would we really forget how the human touch feels like in future?
esp due to the proliferation of the use of instant messaging, skype etc that we lose the essence and joy of face-to-face meetings.

its just scary.
at least for me.

and like in the movie, you'd realise that one day, technology would turn its back on us but the good thing is tat we are humans after all, the ones with the brains.
we just have to know how to use them.


well i'm just hoping that i won't live long enough to experience all that's to happen.



go watch wall-e soon for the comedy and its hidden agenda for us earthlings! :)