Joanna: “I’ve seen the trailers (all of them), and I honestly don’t get where you’re coming from. What revolting images? How did you read “America is evil” into a robot playing with a paddle-ball game?”
I just forced myself to view the trailer once again. “Leaving earth’s cleanup” to Wall-e, says the ecstatic announcer. Earth’s cleanup? Cleanup of what? The answer did not tarry: The cleanup of all man’s creations. We produce our creations, and turn the planet into a garbage dump. Wow, that’s a sophisticated critique of contemporary society.
And it’s done with no dialogue, to boot. A blitzkrieg of images, super-high speed special effects, with no depth, no charm, no history. Like the vaccum-cleaner vignette the official website so proudly offers us. Spraying filth in every direction.
They are chewing you up and spitting you out in the great collectivist propaganda machine, and you can’t even feel it.
Wall-e should be cleaning up the remnants of Western intellect, which will be scattered about like ashes well before 700 years from now.
