The Weedlets talk sense. Eldest Weed's first comment is the sort of advice the Russian people could have used in 1917.
I managed to avoid seeing it, and thanks to the Missus for sacrificing herself.
I don't quite hear in these remarks the answer to my wondering about why she is called E.V.E.? Presumably Wall-E is an A.D.A.M. So is the trash-filled earth a Garden of Eden after all, or is AXIOM the Garden of Eden? Or perhaps AXIOM is the land outside Eden, and the humans are there because they committed the sin of expelling themselves?
I am supposing the writer/s indeed knew something of the "parable" they wrote about here.
Indeed they did! The first part of the movie is beautiful and will have extra appeal to Theology of the Body fans. Wall-E lives in peace and harmony in a world created for him (it's a trashed earth to us, but since he's a trash compactor...) He has dominion over the "garden," and shapes it to his will. He has companions (a video, various "treasures," a cockroach...) but no fit partner to share his paradise. As I mentioned, the moment he sees Eve, it really is a "here at last" moment, and somehow this cartoon manages to give the scene true emotional content. The subsequent scenes in which he shows her all the delights of his home are sweet too.
After that I lose the trail of the Adam & Eve theme and it becomes more about humans and the flight from responsibility.
Hmm. I may have to go see it again.
The Axiom is Noah's ark gone wrong. Eve is the dove.
Commenting by HaloScan
