wall.e and ending up close reading it, and onto even bigger stuff

I watched Wall.e, and i think its one of the best films of the year. It is well-composed - multiple story threads put together into a single coherent narrative without too many complications. The stories themselves are easy to follow - the love story between wall.e and eva can be thought of as the city girl - country boy love story arc, and then there's the defiance over the machines story arc, and then the usual redemption of humanity part. For most movies, the story ends with the ending credits, but not so for wall.e. If you bother to stay long enough, the story continues, and there are views here and there about humanity rebuilding civilisation back on Earth. The way the story is told is itself beautiful - how different components are put together - the captain marveling at the past history of Earth wants to know the meaning of dance - dance having made unnecessary due to the convenience of hover chairs. And as the definition is told, wall.e and eva are dancing outside in outer space - eva moving around with her thrusters, wall.e using an extinguisher to propel himself in space, in an intricate dance... It is beautiful. And of course, the scenes where wall.e attempts to hold eva's hands, trying to cure his loneliness...

Then in the movie, there is the concept of Plato's cave, of the conception and perception of reality, and how people accidently realise the external reality around them and REALLY realise what the heck is going on, and realising the richer world out there.

These are the emotional scences that struck me the most, and the robots dancing in outer space is really a tear-jerker, and i guess i would have cried if there was someone i love in the seat next to me, or held her hand or something. But there wasn't.

Oh well. Who would have thought a love story between robots could mean so much...?

Cheers to Pixar. Hope they make better movies every year!