WALL-E and the meaning of life
December 28th, 2008
Puzzling it out for himself
Watching WALL-E, I was impressed. There were not nearly as many silly, superfluous visual gags as there could have been. The minimalistic, dialogue-less opening was a bold move for Hollywood.
But there was one even bolder move, plot-wise, that they could have made, that would have lifted the movie up to a level of real art:
When WALL-E followed EVE back to the mothership Axiom, wouldn’t it have been great if that, too, had been as deserted as Earth was? And both robots were pointlessly following “Directives” to prepare Earth for humans that would never return?