Movie Review on Wall-E
Andrew Stanton, an Academy Award®-winning writer-director had produced a new animation called WALL-e. In this animation, the leading role is the robot Wall-e (short for Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) which is programmed to clean up the planet "Earth", where Earth have become a "garbage planet". However, after 700 hundred years of cleaning he developed a personality and curiosity of his own. The second leading role is EVE which is a robot sent to Earth on a classified scanning mission which is to find plant. The content of speech which is logos is interesting because Andrew Stanton had made these robots personalise which they have the ability to think and have emotion.
The show started off with a song to introduce the universe and slowly focused on the Earth and on Wall-e this made all the audiences focused on the big screen. In the beginning, it "robot" languages shown that he was curious on things that can be used and he will keep them in his "home", also when he feel scared he will keep shivering, and he seems to be very lonely. After hundreds of lonely years WALL•E discovers a new purpose in life when he meets a sleek search robot named EVE. Wall-e was attracted to Eve and he tried to impress Eve by making a fake robot; however he felt depressed when she walked away and when Eve was hibernating he shown anxiety. This is the emotion he developed which is pathos in communication.
Additionally, when Eve was hibernating he took care of her and tried all the possibility to wake her up. I feel that this is very touching, this shows that Andrew Staton made the robots to have a caring action and humans like us, we also need to concern other people too.
The style and delivery of the movie, lexis, by the both robots were using nonverbal communication as most of the time they did not speak. Andrew Staton has managed to use actions, and music to bring out the feeling of the robots.
In the later part of the show, Eve found the plant and went back to Axiom (where the entire human lived). In Axiom, humans there used robots to do all the jobs and they just sit on a moving chairs with a screen in front of them which allowed them to communicate to each other and moving around without walking. Communicated by the screen will discourage them to have transactional communication. I think face to face communication were important for human beings if not we will neglect the things that happen around us.
However, beside all these, personally i feel that the most important message that Andrew Staton wanted to send out to the audiences by using this channel (the movie) was that we need to save our earth by applying the 3R method, Reuse, Recycle and Reduce in order not to make Earth become a garbage planet. I feel that this is the most important message for everyone now.
From the movie, we can see that pathos and ethos are used by the two robots and the important message like saving the environment not only can send through medium like newspaper, television and website but also animated movie on the big screen. haha
posted by shelly at
2:49 PM
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Personally I have not watched the show Wall-e. However, from the trailer I saw I think it is quite interesting! He is very cute too (from his action).I am quite impress by what Andrew Staton did, he used action and music to make the effects rather than using verbal communication which i think is very difficult especially animated film.
It was a clever move by Andrew Staton to make use of the mass media such as the movie animation to make people of all ages understand the importance of saving the earth while at the same time providing some entertainment.
I agree with you on the point that face to face communication is very important in our daily activities, where one should not be constantly facing the computer screen. There was a part where two humans met face to face for the first time, and got a shock at each other's existence. Furthermore, by being separated from the computer screen, they were finally able to enjoy the scenery that they did not notice before.
It's a nice movie. Even robots know how to communicate. Although they are unable to talk much, but the facial expressions were great. The eyes movement and everything had clearly showed the feelings of Wall E and Eve.
Robots can understand each other. However, sometimes humans failed to understand each other. Isn't that contradicting. I guess that's why it's important for us to learn communication! =)
I have not watched Wall-e. But the way you have described it has totally intrigued me to watch it soon!
The way you've put it. I do think Andrew Staton was a genius for being able to get his message across to the viewers through animated characters even when they are normally nonverbal communication. =) amazing.
oh, unlike elaine, i've watched the movie Wall.E already. i really did enjoy the show! and it's true, there was hardly any verbal communication. the movie appeals very strongly to our knowledge of non-verbal communication and the meaning we attached to it. thus everyone watching the same movie,may have different opinions about it.overall, i thought that the movie was an amazing one. Everyone should catch it.
I watched Wall-e afew hours ago and i really feel that the director actually aims to create an impression by making the audience interpret the message that wall-e is trying to bring across just by using actions. the appropriate use of music also further emphasizes the importance of saving our environment. on the overall, although there is little use of verbal conversations,the interesting use of nonverbal conversations intrigues us to think deeper.
Hello, fellow PSY 101 group mate! :)
Saving the environment is important, if not crucial to our planet - who amongst us does not know that our planet is dying, thanks to our misusage of our resources? However, not much has been done in conserving our environment, and Wall-E has done an excellent job in highlighting this important issue that has been mostly overlooked in the face of other pressing problems, such as the lack of resources.
My opinion is that Andrew Staton has done a very good job, and perhaps much can be followed up from here, e.g. holding rallies with regards to the environment?
Just some food for thought.
I have to admit I have not watched the show. The non-verbal style of communication is reminiscent of the silent movies of old. Remember Charlie Chaplin?
The show's projection of human beings in the future is a scary one. We developed technology to make our lives easier. If we are not careful, we may end up depending on technology to live.
After all, can you survive on a deserted island with no modern tools?
i feel thats the director did a very good job in conveying the 'go green' message to the audience.
moreover, the use of animated robots, add to the difficulty of conveying the message.
the director cleverly weaves aspects of non-verbal communication into the movie which brings life to the otherwise 'deanimated' robots.
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