ROBOTS IN LOVE

[defrog]

The bridal unit and I went to see WALL-E last night, and holy crap, Glenn Beck was right! It’s a big liberal movie about big liberal global warming that teaches kids that capitalism is bad and we should all become hippies and plant trees and then hug them all day and ... and ...

Ha ha. Right. Good one, Glenn.

I liked it, me. Good fun, good story, pretty clever satire, great character design. The ending could have been a little braver, but that’s a lot to ask of anything backed by Disney.

Speaking of which, while we’re imposing our own sociopolitical filters on what in reality is just a cute film about robots in the future, one thing I find interesting is that in order for this to work, the filmmakers had to impose genders on what are basically sexless machines. There’s no reason for WALL-E or EVE to be either male or female, other than to sell a love story. Imagine if the characters had been designed as androgynous machines – or at least had been given voices that were gender-neutral. How would audiences have reacted to that?

Besides Glenn Beck, I mean. He probably would have just ‘sploded all over the place. “PIXAR ADVOCATES GAY MARRIAGE! ONOES!!!”

Anyway, I’m not complaining. Just over-intellectualizing out loud. Sorry about that. Forget what I said. Cute robots, loved it, the end. The opening short with the magician and the rabbit? Totally ROFTLMAO. Okthxbye.

We do the Batman tomorrow. Right after we pillage the annual Hong Kong Book Fair. In theory, anyway.

Who’s the woman who’s the man,

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