Love and Robots

So, to start my Stay-at-home feminist series, I'm going to look at Wall-E. Let me clarify a few things. I love this movie. It might be my favorite Pixar movie. It's definitely up there with Monsters Inc. and Toy Story 3. Now, my favorite part isn't the robot romance. We'll get to that in a second. My favorite part is the story of humanity, summed up by line, "I don't want to survive! I want to live!" Perhaps a little on the nose, but I love it. The sense of simple wonder found in making old things new ("We have a pool? I didn't know we had a pool!"), by bringing hope back to a long-abandoned Earth - I don't fuss about the heavy-handed ecology message, because it's just a vehicle to get humans off Earth and back again. The end credit sequence alone gives me goosebumps.

( As for the romance )