Wall-E
Wall-E is the story of a trash compactor robot and a probe robot who fall in love. Wall-E was left behind on a garbage-ridden Earth when the human race abandons it to live in space. He is left there year after year until one day, a ship lands and the beautiful probe EVE comes to look for signs of life. Wall-E shows her a plant he had found, and she takes it back to the space station where the humans are living. After a struggle with the resistant auto pilot, EVE and Wall-E, together with the captain and a slew of other characters, manage to get the plant into the machine that programs the ship to go back to Earth.
While Wall-E is a wonderful children's movie and contains great lessons for kids, it also has a myriad of lessons for adults. One of these is the prevailing theme of love and its inconvenience. One thing that strikes the viewer throughout this movie is that the robots seem more human-like than the humans, and the love story between Wall-E and EVE is a perfect example of this paradox.
When EVE first comes off of the ship, Wall-E simply watches her in dumbstruck awe. She is sleek, sophisticated, and ethereal. She is the pinnacle of technology, emphasized by the ship that accompanies her and activates her. The whole spaceship and all of its gadgets exist merely for her transport. Light, feathery music follows her wherever she goes. She is fast, powerful, and the most beautiful thing Wall-E has ever seen.
Wall-E, on the other hand, is depicted as a clumsy, dirty robot. He surrounds himself with little oddities that he collects while he carries out his trash compactor duties. He is spunky and sporadic to EVE's sleek sophistication. To him, EVE is the picture of the unattainable lady that was popularized in the Middle Ages.
At first EVE plays the part of the lady very well. She continually blows off Wall-E's awkward advances and attempts to impress her. From the start, he sees past her awe-inspiring power and stiff outer shell to the sweet beauty beneath.
While Wall-E is a wonderful children's movie and contains great lessons for kids, it also has a myriad of lessons for adults. One of these is the prevailing theme of love and its inconvenience. One thing that strikes the viewer throughout this movie is that the robots seem more human-like than the humans, and the love story between Wall-E and EVE is a perfect example of this paradox.
When EVE first comes off of the ship, Wall-E simply watches her in dumbstruck awe. She is sleek, sophisticated, and ethereal. She is the pinnacle of technology, emphasized by the ship that accompanies her and activates her. The whole spaceship and all of its gadgets exist merely for her transport. Light, feathery music follows her wherever she goes. She is fast, powerful, and the most beautiful thing Wall-E has ever seen.
Wall-E, on the other hand, is depicted as a clumsy, dirty robot. He surrounds himself with little oddities that he collects while he carries out his trash compactor duties. He is spunky and sporadic to EVE's sleek sophistication. To him, EVE is the picture of the unattainable lady that was popularized in the Middle Ages.
At first EVE plays the part of the lady very well. She continually blows off Wall-E's awkward advances and attempts to impress her. From the start, he sees past her awe-inspiring power and stiff outer shell to the sweet beauty beneath.