Insomnia

Image via WikipediaThis week-end was a rainy week-end. So I went to the movies and saw Wall-E. To my opinion, this is the best Pixar movie so far. The visuals are stunning, the story is interesting and is different from their other animated movies. Plus, there is no dialog in the first 40 minutes or so. Only robotic bleeps that carry more meaning and emotion than any Ben Affleck scene ever recorded. Oh and the short animated movie they show before the main feature is really cool.

I knew little about the movie before I went. I had just seen one preview and it had nothing to do with the central theme of the movie. It was just the preview with robots flying around in space.

But right at the opening scenes... I was very pleased. The visual approach to the movie was reminiscent of Idiocracy. A relatively little-known film by Mike Judge. The story is different but there is a definite connection between the two movies. Especially in the way the movie portrays people as ignorant, wasteful consumers. The way that they are lazy and stupid and happy in their ignorance.

There are obviously differences between the movies. The fact that people didn't become idiots, they always were idiots. Another difference in Wall-E is that they had the technology to leave earth. So they did and their behavior didn't change. There's just more room in space to throw out your garbage.

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