He's one for the ages, no mouth, but good strong eyes, and maybe in the post-apolyptic dystopia he lives in in Hollywood Pixar land, he can also see what polar cities will be like... Go go, Wall-E!
Much has been made already of the film's lack of dialogue, communicating its robot love story largely through pantomime. Here are some other ways WALL·E may surprise:
•It's the end of the world, kids. Few family-friendly films can claim a post-apocalyptic wasteland as a setting. In WALL·E, Earth is a cinder, humans are gone, and the trash-collecting robot does his futile duty in a vast landscape of destruction.
"What makes it different is that it has a much darker vision than it looks like on the surface," says Annalee Newitz, editor of the sci-fi website io9.com. "Some of the dystopian elements are between the lines, but if you watch carefully, you realize that all the humans on Earth are destroyed, implicitly."
Much has been made already of the film's lack of dialogue,
ReplyDeletecommunicating its robot love story largely through pantomime. Here are
some other ways WALL·E may surprise:
•It's the end of the world, kids. Few family-friendly films can claim
a post-apocalyptic wasteland as a setting. In WALL·E, Earth is a
cinder, humans are gone, and the trash-collecting robot does his
futile duty in a vast landscape of destruction.
"What makes it different is that it has a much darker vision than it
looks like on the surface," says Annalee Newitz, editor of the sci-fi
website io9.com. "Some of the dystopian elements are between the
lines, but if you watch carefully, you realize that all the humans on
Earth are destroyed, implicitly."