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(NaturalNews) Released in the Summer of 2008, the animated feature film "Wall-E" from Pixar is flat out one of the best animated feature films you'll ever see. It easily takes the title of best animated film of 2008, and perhaps of all time. If you haven't seen Wall-E yet, you owe it to yourself to pick up this movie and see what you've been missing.
The film is set in the far future when Earth's climate has been destroyed by humans, and the surviving drifters live on a distant space station, awaiting the return of life on planet Earth. More than 700 years have gone by, and during that time, humans have become a race of obese, lazy, stupid and weak-willed cowards who transport themselves on hovering lounge chairs, slurping up the latest artificially-colored sugar beverages and allowing their minds to be brainwashed by the mass media blasted through a barrage of display screens throughout the space station.
Does that description surprise you? Wall-E is advertised as a film for children, and in a way it certainly is, but this film has a far deeper and more intelligent message, too: Its subtext contains a warning about the future of human civilization and what might happen if we don't protect our planet and our health.
The film's scenes depicting the population of "human sloths" in their hovering lounge chairs is nothing short of astounding. That scene alone is worth buying the DVD and watching the whole film.
Pay attention to this film: The subtext is powerful and far more enlightened than you might expect from an animated feature. Most NaturalNews readers will find it fascinating that such a film actually got made and distributed by Disney, a company that has been traditionally staffed by intellectually challenged executives who probably didn't even catch any of the underlying themes in the film.
Disney executives are so short-sighted that they actually fired the first guy who approached them about producing CG (Computer Graphics) animated films (Lasseter, I believe), thinking that computer animation would put traditional 2D cell animators out of work. This is sort of like banning the printing press because all the scribes still need their jobs...
Of course, now Lasseter IS a Disney executive, since Disney bought Pixar a couple years back, but he's still got the perspective of an outsider, and Disney is lucky to have the guy.
Getting back to Wall-E, there's a lot more to this film that will interest you, and I haven't even mentioned the primary character yet: It's a garbage collecting robot that has been on auto-pilot for 700 years, gathering and compacting small cubes of garbage left behind by the deserting humans.
His name, of course, is Wall-E, and he's gifted with advanced artificial intelligence that allows him to experience the full range of human emotions.
That's a hugely important reason the film works, by the way, and nobody understands this better than Pixar. For mechanical characters to resonate with human audiences, they have to be humanized with human-like gestures, voice intonation, emotions and other subtle elements of expression. Most animated studios completely miss this point, and they put out films with stiff, jerky animated robots, or cars, or even human-like characters that have no humanity in them! But Pixar's characters just radiate human qualities which are expertly captured by their animators, sound effects creators and voice talent actors.
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