Brought on by a lazy film-watching New Years Day, I'm going to do a film review of the Disney film Wall-E.
Well, it's brilliant really.
The general animation, narrative and voice acting is superb. The idea of two robots falling in love is one of my personal Disney favourites
But I also like this film a lot because of its allegorical ideologies.
I can see the human race doing this.
We get new technologies, new superstores, new everything and we binge. Overuse resources and leave the Earth ruined - in real terms, we're about halfway there. We're not drowning in rubbish - yet.
So, what do we do?
We run away, leaving the responsibility of cleaning up our regretable act to someone - or this case - someTHING else.
And we stay in a spaceship - getting lazier and larger and generally drowning in technology and leaving the Earth a brown, dusty memory.
Disney were just being creative. They saw contemporary issues and put them within a brilliant film - subtly hidden by a mute robot falling in love with a swanky piece of kit.
In today's terms? It's like a PlayStation 1 loving an Ipod.
Anyway - a film with modern and shocking (yet potentially truthful) ideologies.
And it's also the last film in Disney's good run. Besides 'Up', their latest work including 'Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs', 'The Princess and the Frog' and their latest others have not reflected their best work.
And Wall-E was the last great film before they went downhill.
So watch it, enjoy it, laugh and coo over the love between the two opposties.
And secretly think to yourself: So this is what the end of the earth looks like.
Interesting. I don't tend to like Disney films because of the unrealistic eventualities that tend to occur. Sod's Law, for example, doesn't seem to apply to most of the characters. It sounds like this one gives us something more profound to look at, though. Maybe I'll watch it some day. Maybe.
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