yays my strawberry cheeseshake alas! (:

wall-e.
short for Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class.

i don't really know what to feel about the movie, amid the cosmic comedy of it all. but i confess that i enjoyed the familiar premise of humankind's dependence on technology. i reckon there must have been other like-minded beings out there who got rather peeved and upset inside as we saw how those humans, having their hiatus out in space, became filled with such lassitude and complacency and had every aspect of their lives sitting (pun intended) on their chairs.

"And in the armchair there sits a swaddled lump of flesh - a woman, about five feet high, with a face as white as a fungus."

...our favourite line back in our old days in secondary school (: if you're interested, The Machine Stops by E.M. Foster is a good refreshing read. a twentieth century short story.

oh yes, the show also coalesced love (the classic sort) and sci-fi into something rather, classic? but anyhow, the point that the show's bringing home, at least to mine, and quite blaringly while at it too, is that Man (yea i know he's a robot) can't hold out solitude. social creatures we are anyway. need companionship we all know.

he meets eve, some sleek search robot whom he doesn't really know. you get the idea.

it's also pretty interesting how he developed ideas of relationships and love. classic example, again. the mass media. no i'm not going to start anything about its pervasiveness and all. but i can't help but point toward it for the biasness and predisposed notions that many of us fortuitously hold as a result.

that is why my friend's dad advised her against watching too much television serials broadcasting all those love-themed dramas. disagree? well for me i'd admit that i pretty much inadvertently fall into the tides of such, and the curve gets steeper as the hours spent on them grows too.

same goes for how violent games lead to increased aggressive tendencies.
but i digress.