Wall-E

Wall-E is the story of the compressing robot left behind by humans centuries ago to ‘clean up’ the Earth. He shows many anthropic qualities, in being able to trinkets, keep a pet (a cockroach) and feel love (while watching tapes of old musicals). Often during his day of compressions, there comes a huge dust storm and gale that he hides from in another machine. As he continues collecting trinkets, he comes by a plant growing inside a discarded refrigerator and adds it on to his collection. One day he sees a bright red spot that remains uncatchable and he curiously follows it, only to find that it from a huge machine landing on Earth and out of it comes the prettiest little robot. It is love at first sight for him, but it takes a while for him to confess since the pretty robot also had a quick hand in shooting down anything that she thought was harmful. He finds out that her name is Eva and takes her to his home to show all he has. After a few clashing interactions, he shows her the plant and suddenly Eva becomes unresponsive, save a beeping green light. Wall-E tries everything in his power to bring her back but nothing happens. This was probably the cutest set of scenes.

Then a few days later, the big machine comes back and sucks up Eva. Wall-E refuses to leave her and follows her along into the machine. Here he finds a whole new world and we, as audience, have some funny moments to watch. He finds out a whole bunch of bloated humans stuck to their seats and their screens without any movement. Although the thought is scary enough, sometimes it does feel that the world might just come to that. Eva after scanning and searching makes it to the captain’s cabin and he is unable to fully realize the impact of the plant. However, after a day’s lesson on Earth, during which Wall-E and Eva have fatal adventures, he is firm on returning back to Earth and after battling his rebelling autopilot, the craft returns to Earth. Mankind resumes and Wall-E is fixed!

A very sweet and thoughtful story. Definitely a must see.