I think the theme of this film is, the essence of man, or the ultimate pursuit of man, is it rational after all? Still emotional?
[The following contains spoilers, be careful] At some point in the
future, the earth will become a large garbage dump. This film is very fashionable and even depicts space junk. There are no people on the surface of the earth, nor any animals or plants. The task of the robot WALL-E is to sort out this garbage.
As a robot, WALL-E actually has a friend. It is an insect, and since it has been run over by WALL-E many times without dying, it is suspected to be a robotic insect. Not only that, WALL-E is actually like a real worker, carrying a lunch box to work every day, and even watching TV and sleeping after returning home. For the solar-powered WALL-E, his lunch box is certainly not for food. In addition to cleaning up the garbage, WALL-E used the lunch box to collect some small toys for itself. This is more human-like.
The robot Eva looks like an egg. In fact, her mission is to find traces of life on the earth. Very naturally, after seeing Eva, the always human WALL-E has feelings for her. Eva is a very advanced and professional robot, so once she sees the plant seedlings in the WALL-E collection, she immediately puts them in her body, no longer moves around, and doesn't play with WALL-E anymore. At this time, Eva doesn't seem to have emotional functions, but WALL-E is very persistent with emotions.
WALL-E followed the spacecraft that picked up Eva to a base in space. It turns out that humans are still there, but they all live on a large spacecraft in the depths of the universe. It's just that they all live like machines.
Everyone has become fat and can't walk on their own. Fortunately, there are robots to take care of everything. Although everyone is close to each other because of the small area, people's daily lives are mainly sitting and watching TV shopping channels and making phone calls. There is no emotional exchange between each other. All people are rational people set by economists, and their main purpose of survival is consumption.
Eva was originally a cool robot, but under the influence of WALL-E, she slowly became the heroine of Jin Yong's novels.
When humans become machines, robots have emotions. The feeling of WALL-E is not only love, he even has a love for life, insisting on proving life on earth to mankind.
A mere seedling cannot prove that the earth has the conditions for human beings to survive again. From a fully rational point of view, it is obviously far from the time to return to the earth.
But the sensibility of the human captain defeated reason, and the life of the earthlings attracted him. He said: I don't want to survive! I want to live! Not only was it exciting, he even stood up epic!
At this time, the description of the movie and the humans in the movie also began to have emotional exchanges. So with the help of WALL-E and Eva, everyone was convinced of the life conditions of the earth and really returned to the earth.
I don't know what people feel when they step off the spacecraft and see a piece of ruins on the earth. The living conditions on the spacecraft are quite good, and the sanitary conditions are impeccable. I don’t know how long it will take to rebuild the earth, or whether the immune system they have cultivated under excellent sanitary conditions can adapt to the earth’s air? The advice of the host computer to the captain is completely rational. Maybe for everyone, this life is so short, or is it better to stay on the spacecraft?
Since the Enlightenment, everyone seems to believe that the most rational people are the most rational people, feelings are an obstacle, and impulse is the devil. There are always people in the world who have counted everything out, but there are always people who use their will. The most interesting point is that every movie ends in a happy ending with the enthusiasts defeating the organs. Whenever we see this ending, we feel warm. Isn't this a good wish of mankind?
The film WALL-E prompted me to think, maybe this is not just a good wish, it is human nature. Emotion may be higher than reason, and impulse may be higher than calculation. Because the former is human nature, and the latter is a machine. WALL-E proves that only human nature can make machines great.
The pictures in the subtitles after the end of the film hint to us that under the transformation of this group of people, the earth has really turned into a garden again. Perhaps such a great achievement can only be achieved with will!
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