Is Wall-E a conservative movie?
What was the motivation for the AXIOM’s autopilot (the ships wheel) to destroy the flower?
I say: The ships original purpose was to act like a lifeboat while the earth was cleaned back up; the EVA robots were originally designed to detect just such a reclamation success. But when the “all is hopeless” emergency override “DO NOT RETURN, ever” order was received, the ships wheel became unable to accept any data that would initiate the voyage home by the ships autoreturn subroutine. He goes full HAL. He kills the flowers that EVAs brings back.
Unable to accept new data that conflicts with a doom and gloom all-is-lost message? Hello? Paging Algore! LOL One of this movie’s messages is open your eyes to new data and new hope.
I also note that EVA likes to dance when “she” thinks no one is looking, yet when her DIRECTIVE kicks in, she become truly robotic. I think this movie should play quite well to the victims of the former soviet empire.
