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Wall E | Movie Review

Wall E - 2008
Directed by : Andrew Stanton

Robots are fundamentally blank, cold and emotionally void. They are meant to be. They are made to do work. Thats all. Nothing more nothing less. But that is not the case with Wall-E and Eve. Its all about their emotions this time. Nothing else matters. Well? Yeah, of course they save the whole humanity on the journey of their love. But thats out of context. Its their journey we are concerned about. Its strangely alluring, profound and human. 

Meet our main protagonist, Wall E, a cleaning robot who is responsible for collecting and piling up all the garbage of lifeless future earth into the form of giant skyscrapers. He lonely single robot left alone and his only companion is a friendly cockroach. He is strange looking and personable. He has habit of collecting the important things found for himself from from the garbage. These include, rubix cube, a light bulb, a TV and CD of an old Musical. He has become humanlike but with the exception that he is more kind and full of life. 

Its 700 years in the future and all the human species is shifted on the Axiom, a giant spaceship carrying the likely future human generation, which is obese, sluggish and dumb. And is controlled and taken care by the company called Buy n Large, which is also responsible for the dehumanisation of earth. 

Wall - E is occupied with his usual work, collecting and piling up the garbage, but something unusual happens when a gigantic spacecraft lands on Earth and drops a egglike stone. This stone, we later learn that is, Eve, a robot sent from Axiom to search for life forms on Earth. Make no mistakes about their genders here. Eve is she and Wall E is he. She is classy, elegant future robot with great many features including destroying the whole submarine by a single blast from her one single blow. And our poor Wall E, an old scrapper, who needs self repairing every other day. Soon they get closer, he shows his lovely living place to her, his stuffs to her, the old Musical where human dance and hold hand, and the journey begins!

And its a great journey. It has childlike credulous and is great to watch. It vanish all the cynicism and make us feel greatly sympathetic towards them. Which is great feat. And more so considering they are two little lifeless robots, who cant convey anything.

Its admiring how they achieved the feat of 
conveying so many sentiments from robots and from literally no wordly communication. Just great music and sound editing. The non living things here are more full of life and kindness than that of human. Its smartly made film which took few references from classics like 2001 and Star Wars, and I really loved those(instead of getting pissed off by). 

It is special movie in its own way. Profound and deeply moving which stays with you for a long long time.

Rating: ★★★★½
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