Catched yet another great cartoon from Disney & Pixar, WALL-E.



Since I watched the trailer, I have been wanting to watch this movie, cos WALL-E is simply cute! His innocent eyes especially, and I am amazed by the creators and directors and all those who worked on this piece that they actually successfully infuse emotions into this robot, and make "him" so human, and I followed his emotions throughout the movie! I was attracted to the movie cos I love to watch cartoon and the story seems interesting to me, love between two robots, how cute!! But it is more than just love between the robots, some other things in the one plus hour movie hit me harder than love.

This little robot, cleaning up the mess the human created, alone in the place where the human used to stay, the Earth. Everyday, not knowing and not counting the days, he diligently pulled in the trashes using his arms into his tummy, squeeze them into a cube, and arrange them nicely. By doing so for as many years and he can remember, he builds towers of "cube trash". He has this little treasure box which he keeps the knick-knacks he found during his daily routine and will take these treasures back to his little container, his home.

Then on one fine day, as usual he churns out the cube trashes and arranges them, he came to a refridgerator, and to his delight, he saw something he has never seen before, a plant. A green small baby plant, peeping out from a boot filled with soil. This of course, went to his treasure box, and this plant brought him his girlfriend, EVE. EVE is on a mission to discover signs of life in the Earth, and she is to bring back the info to the space craft where the humans are living there since the Earth is no longer suitable to live.

What hit me the most is what happens in the space craft where the human lives, the AXIOM. ALL the people there are overweight to the extent they loss their bone mass and they cant even stand!!! Everyone is talking to everyone via the little TV screen in front of them, which comes together with the "car" they use to travel. Everyone is so engross in their own world that they do not pay attention to the things around them. All they need to do in the space craft to live is just to give command, either by pushing buttons on their cars or call for the robots (equivalent to the maids in modern days). They are actually degenerating!!

Everything seems so possible to me, all the high-tech gadgets and inventions are suppose to solve our problem and for our convenience, but it has come to a stage where we become dependent on them and we loss our ability to live.

We become numb to the world around us, we loss our gift to be able to listen, feel, and see. We become dependent on the internet that the first thing we do when we come in contact with a PC is to connect to the internet and get "connected" to the whole world, but we are get less connected to the people in our lives and the surroundings. That is the paradox of life. It is suppose to connect us and bring us closer, but somehow we just drift further apart. The thought that we will have to live in outer space and survive on artificial sunlight, moonlight and life pleasures just scare me.

WALL-E, a humble robot taught me a lesson.


Before I get "disconnected" to the world, let me finish my online drama first.....


p/s: WALL-E stands for Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-class

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