First of all, this movie is full of clichés and all kinds of clichés: the first is the worldview-the earth full of garbage, the future humans who are overly dependent on machines, simple-minded, and the big companies that control everything (and visible conspiracy theories), As well as the irony of fast food, etc., reviewing the American movies in recent years, we have watched too many of these segments. Maybe we should not have any hope for the originality of the animation works, but the same segments The use of is indeed a cliché. Speaking of this, I think of a movie. In 2006, in the 20th century, Fox released a third-rate comedy called "The Evolution of the Stupid". The worldview described in the film is surprisingly similar to the wall-e ( It’s just that the people in the fool are even more stupid. Fortunately, wall-e is a cartoon, otherwise I can almost think that this is a sequel to the fool. As for the latter part of the film, when standing up with the captain strenuously, the background music uses Zarathustra's overture... I think third-rate comedies don't bother to use this, so I can only smile when the music starts. . (As for the horrible problems such as the control of the world by large companies, I don’t think I need to talk about it.) Unfortunately, even with the same similar and conventional worldview, wall-e does not show more depth and brilliance. place.
The most important thing is that, in terms of theme performance, this film can basically be attributed to the end of life. The two main themes of this film-environmental protection and love (it seems that these two words are a bit inconsistent when put together). Regarding environmental protection, wall-e's explanation is a joke. First of all, regarding environmental protection, in terms of the causes of environmental pollution, pixar's explanation is problematic. Although it is not pointed out, we can see vaguely that the cause of environmental degradation is vaguely attributed to the abuse of technology and technology in this film. . We can see that pixar subconsciously divides technology into two symbolic images. The first is wall-e and dirty earth, which symbolizes the image of the old industry—dirty, garbage, and low efficiency. This can also be shown on the wall-e—the old-fashioned exterior design, crawler style Deconstruction of the transmission, components that will wear out at any time. The second is EVA and spacecraft, which symbolize the image of the new industry-beautiful and efficient, which seems to be the same as a perpetual motion machine. Especially for the description of spacecraft, except for the stupid part, there is no pollution, self-sufficiency, and resources are always sufficient ( Although pixar can't explain why this is), it's a paradise on earth. This division and plot show the contradiction of pixar-pixar vaguely feels that the abuse of science and technology will cause environmental problems, but it also found that only science and technology can save the environment, so it adopts a dichotomy and blames the destruction of the earth's environment on the old Industry, and then pin their hopes on the new industry to save the earth damaged by the old industry. But the new industry and the old industry are just two processes that must be passed through in the process of technological development. We cannot skip the first one and directly reach the second one. More importantly, even for a new industry, we cannot do things like The spacecraft and EVA are in full compliance with the scientific development concept, which reflects pixar's vague and unrealistic expectations for new industries. As for "abuse", I think this part can be completely skipped, because this film does not condemn abuse, and we can see that junk food on the earth is still everywhere on the spacecraft-but it has become official food. , The cars on the earth still exist on the spacecraft-they are just turned into small ground-effect aircraft. The so-called American life is still continuing, and there is no such thing as abuse. Because he didn't even realize that the so-called "American way of life", that is, excessive indulgence of individualism, is one of the root causes of environmental degradation.
We can also analyze the characters' perceptions of "environmental protection" or "environment" in the film. The first is the protagonist wall-e: Wall-e doesn't know much about "environmental protection". He recycling garbage is his own job. He discovered that plants were accidental. He brought back plants just because of curiosity. As for the spacecraft, he helped humans return to their homeland. It’s just a simple reason—for eva; then another protagonist, eva, who doesn’t know anything about environmental protection, and it’s just her job to find plants; the two protagonists’ knowledge, besides, the knowledge of other characters is not much better. , The captain’s knowledge of the earth is only based on images from a long time ago. As for the reason for knowing that the earth is polluted and going back, it is simpler-because the earth is home, for a leader who seems to have no worries about food and clothing and never has environmental problems (you can notice the film The spacecraft in China is simply Noah’s Ark, with endless energy and resources and no environmental problems on Earth), this reason is simply incredible and illogical; as for ordinary people, they have no knowledge of this problem. They just follow passively. Obviously, the film's environmental protection, the producer's own understanding of environmental protection is very superficial, so its explanation is even more superficial. Without an understanding of the problem (not to mention a full understanding), let alone how to implement it. Therefore, the process of returning to the earth to save the earth in this film is simple enough to find the seeds back to the earth to plant, but in essence it is still It was an accident (or a byproduct of the theme of love), like a blind feline accidentally bumping into the carcass of a rodent that died accidentally.
Finally, as for another key issue, how to deal with the polluted environment and restore the ecology, this film proposes a novel method, that is, as long as you return to the earth and plant seeds, the problem will be solved, and the pollution will disappear. The rubbish disappears naturally, like the line: "It's as if I tell those farts, and those farts can be released like a fart." Perhaps this is the so-called "optimistic spirit." At this point, I think the conclusion is very obvious-wall-e shows the standard "American film characteristics" on the theme of environmental protection-regardless of the reason, no thinking, no attempt to solve the problem, all hopes are only pinned on " "Tomorrow will be well" on the vague hope.
Regarding the description of the theme of love in wall-e, compared to the theme of environmental protection, it is considered a pass, but it is only considered a pass. The love between the dirty wall-e and the translucent frosted toilet white eva in this film is basically the story of "the poor boy falls in love with the princess". Wall-e fell in love with eva at first sight. After paying silently, eva was deeply moved after understanding wall-e's feelings and fell in love with wall-e. Here we can find that Wall-e’s interpretation of love is still classical: Wall-e’s feelings for eva are love at first sight, and eva’s love for wall-e is because: "Although he is not handsome enough, he loves me enough, so I love him.” The film emphasizes an old view that love is giving. In any case, at least this view is widely recognized. But apart from these, the description of wall-e's love is just that. Let me add another sentence. In addition to symbolizing "nature", the green plant in the film also plays a secondary symbolic role-the so-called token of love or a shiny wedding ring. Finally, I want to pity the Xiaoqiang classmate in this film. The friendship between him and wall-e lasted for so long. When an eva came, they separated the two. It was completely broken. Look at wall-e. With a serious face, Xiaoqiang ordered Xiaoqiang to stay still, and then turned his head and called eva's name to pounce on the spacecraft. The eternal theme of siblings and clothes was once again expressed.
So far I remembered Anno’s criticism of Hayao Miyazaki, “Miyazaki is no longer doing animation but painting, but a boring so-called Japanese movie.” I think this can be used to comment on pixar’s work. The core is - "American values", or the values of the American dream, the family love of finding nemo, the incredible social responsibility, the friendship of toys story, and the unchanging theme of success. The reason why the problems of other films are not as obvious as wall-e is because Among them, a lot of gag humor or action scenes are relatively compact, attracting the audience's attention so that the main line is not so obvious. However, wall-e is different. We can see that pixar is trying to change and interpret more serious themes. For this reason, the narrative style of humor in previous works has changed significantly. Therefore, for wall-e, it is inevitable to raise the requirements. of. But unfortunately, wall-e did not do this well. For the more realistic and serious theme of environmental protection, pixar's explanations show his superficiality everywhere. This superficiality exists in all previous movies, but it is only forgivable. That's it.
I'm done squatting, let's shoot
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