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Plot
The year is 2805, and due to human carelessness, the Earth has become desolate and lifeless. Only a little robot named Wall-E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class), one of the devices created to reduce the amount of trash on the globe, is capable of moving and walking on this vast cemetery. Wall-E gradually acquires a human personality as his existence progresses slowly, quietly, and in complete solitude.
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Why you should watch it?
It takes more silicon than heart to be unmoved or unimpressed by a movie like WALLE. One is left speechless by Andrew Stanton and his creative team's achievement in creating a piece of art that is so complex and rich in artistic and moral meanings. In this regard, the opening act of the movie is absolutely magnetic because of the way it manages to hold the viewer's interest and make her/him follow WALL-E's travels and excursions through the enormous garbage heap that is now planet Earth with the wonder of a young child. Due to unavoidable circumstances, WALL-E has spent the past seven hundred years living alone on a deserted planet. All that is left for him to do is study the relics of human stupidity, learning its secrets and understanding its fundamental nature.
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The story is incredibly gloomy from the moment we catch a glimpse of the planet in front of us, and it doesn't feature a living thing until halfway through. However, the one and only protagonist, a machine, easily makes up for this absence with so many traits that are uniquely human that it is impossible to not feel compassion for him.
But the loneliness of the poor Wall-E will be broken when EVE, the tiny robot that Wall-E falls hopelessly in love with, arrives, and the apathy of a reality imprisoned in emptiness is shattered. A love that extends over the limits of our planet and into the stars. Wall-E clings to the vehicle that is stealing her eternal love away from her and travels between the two realms of sci-fi existence with it. These realms are space and earth.
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It was the director's intention to give the robots a more human appearance. However, this humanization wasn't supposed to happen by changing the robot's components to make them look more human-like. The goal was to infuse a pile of robotic components with the traits and soul of a person. These robots now possess a warmth and empathy that is uncommon in technical beings, according to the director. The audience is used to seeing robots as cold, impersonal machines created by human intelligence. But like with every artistic creation, the finished item inexorably takes on some of the creator's personality. The same is true for Wall-E, Eve, and every other robot. After a certain point in the movie, viewers will stop remembering that the main characters are robots. And they'll start to believe the robots in the ship are people. In Wall-E, Stanton imagines a not-so-impossible reversal in which people get completely transformed by the new technology after becoming more and more embedded with it. Technology-dependent people eventually turn into automatons themselves. Human interaction vanishes, leaving a person with only a technology tool as a source of intimacy. The director included a warning for viewers in this far-off future: our constant dependence on technology will turn us into incompetent slaves. Man will eventually no longer even need to walk to go somewhere, just like in the movie. Robots will take care of all of his requirements, including the most basic actions like getting out of bed and engaging in physical contact with other people (which is already happening). The robots' humanity, which has a profound understanding of caring, stands in stark contrast to man's inactivity on both a physical and emotional level.
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Finally a note on the strengths of Stanton and Jim Reardon's flawless writing, that can be discovered in my opinion in the words that are omitted. There is so much mimicking present that the jokes and verbal communication between the characters are reduced to the bare minimum. The opening section of the story, which is more than 30 minutes of pictures and no dialogue (clearly pays homage to the early 20th-century cinema) is a case in point. Its style is very different from anything being produced in this genre now.
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Conclusion
A funny story, told with sarcasm and supported by Andrew Stanton's compelling directing and script, that can amuse the youngest audience members thanks to an intriguing and engaging plot while also able to make everyone, adults included, reflect on the current state of modern society. Wall-E, which received both a Golden Globe and an Oscar in 2009 for Best Animated Film, delighted viewers and critics alike while earning more than $533 million globally.
So, of course, an absolutely recommended movie!!!
Rating
My personal vote is:
9.0/10
