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The Environmentalism of Wall-E |
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Sunday, 13 July 2008 |
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The decade's most powerful environmental film doesn't star Al Gore or Greenpeace activists, but a trash-compacting, Hello Dolly-loving robot with a cockroach for a best friend. Backdropping the Chaplin-esque romantic robot comedy is a barren Earth smothered in junk, deserted but for the movie's eponymous hero, who is fated to compress garbage under sandstorm skies until his battered processors wind down. When Wall-E meets the not-so-subtly-named Eve -- Extraterrestrial Vegetation Evaluator -- love is as inevitable and precious as a seedling that emerges, against all odds, from the waste. But overriding Eve's heart is her prime directive, and Wall-E hitches a ride as she takes the sprout to her ship. Read the rest of this story at Wired's Wired Science Blog
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