Wall-E Film Analysis

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Bilguun Dashdorj
A Doll’s House Assignment
True love has no boundaries
Like the sun, love radiates independently of our fears and desires. Love is inherently free. It cannot be bought, sold, or traded. Love is more easily experienced than defined. You cannot make someone love you, nor can you prevent it. Love is a force of nature. That is why “love” has always been a major theme in filmmaking and in writing. Films such as “It’s a Wonderful Life” or “Pretty Woman” or even the recent animated film by Disney, “WALL-E”, are representations of the theme “Love” in films. “WALL-E” is an animated motion picture that depicts the world 700 years from now. WALL-E (whose name is an acronym for Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class), the last robot left on earth, goes through his lonely …show more content…

He works, that is, until love blasts in from outer space, a robot named EVE (Extra-Terrestrial Vegetation Evaluator). The director Andrew Stanton, supported by brigades of artists, voice artists and computer wizards, has produced a tender irrational love story between two robots whose feelings for each other seem as deep as any film in modern live action drama we are likely to encounter these days. Love depicted in films today is different from how love was depicted in the eighteen hundreds. Henrik Ibsen’s play “A Doll’s House” depicts a society in which the roles of both genders are rigidly fixed and structured and both genders are expected to abide to their respective duties. Henrik Ibsen shows a marriage built merely on appearances, and not love. While Andrew Stanton’s “WALL-E” and Henrik Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House” both follow the theme of love, Stanton’s story adheres more closely to the theme by allowing its central

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