Review of the movie "Wall-I"

Title : Wall-I
Genre : animation, comedy
Director : Andrew Stanton (Andrew Stanton)
Actors : Yuri Rebrik, Katerina Braikovskaya
Composer : Thomas Newman
Country : USA
Year : 2008

Studio Pixar, just do not know how to shoot bad cartoons, managed to shoot a real movie about the great love between robots. In this case, the director Stanton got something anti-utopian and not very flattering for the human race.

Approximately 700 years after people left the cluttered Earth for indefinite space vacations on some kind of Floston Paradise from the Besson's "Fifth Element", the surviving robot Wall-E operates in the ruins of Manhattan.

In the process of harvesting the planet and creating a personal museum of human civilization, some human qualities developed in it, the most important being curiosity. So this "last of the Mohicans" would work, until the last spare parts that he himself repairs, if one day nearby would not land a mysterious creature of the perfect oval form, in which Vall-I (and with him and the viewer) unmistakably identifies the female being related to him. True, the acquaintance almost ended for Vall-I with a lethal outcome, and continued at the beginning not in the most successful way for him. But how can a poor robot know that all true love stories begin this way ...

Andrew Stanton, already trying on human behavioral patterns on beetles and inhabitants of the sea depths, this time got a picture in which the thoughts of Aldous Huxley and George Orwell are set out in a language accessible to preschoolers. In addition, Stanton touched the delicate question of the nature of human feelings, to which thousands of books and films are dedicated. Making "the most human of men" and liberators of mankind from the consuming slavery of the robots, the director (and concurrently the script writer) Stanton pushes the viewer (perhaps involuntarily) to the question: are not human feelings merely the result of complex electrochemical processes (which just simulate in an artificial creation), and as a consequence, is not love the consequence of a short circuit of some kind of microcircuit. Although in the case of Vall-I itself, the answer is not so important: it closes by the fifth minute of the film, and this dysfunction;) the system lasts until the most final credits (which, by the way) are not recommended to be skipped - at least because the action continues and on them, while not under the worst song of Peter Gabriel).

Alexey Pershko