The Best Animated Feature Award at the Oscars this year went to a Pixar animation film called Wall-E. Wall-E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) is a cute little robot who has been trying to clean up the Earth for the past 700 years. Things are pretty much stagnant until a cute little robot probe comes along to check the Earth for life. And that's when things get moving.
I was quite amazed at just how imaginative this film is. They have this cute little robot collector, who has both intuition and curiousity.
It reminded me of a conversation between Fox Mulder and Dana Scully once on the X-Files
"Whatever happened to playing a hunch, Scully? The element of surprise, random acts of unpredictability? If we fail to anticipate the unforeseen or expect the unexpected in a universe of infinite possibilities, we may find ourselves at the mercy of anyone or anything that cannot be programmed, categorized or easily referenced. "
Very rarely do films surprise me these days. It all becomes mundane.... the plots, the story lines... sometimes there's so much gore and blood that you just don't know why you sat through that film in the first place (like the Saw series).
I just hope I remember one thing - and that is to always stay positive. I like these upbeat movies that leave you with hope. Even if hope is supposed to be an evil, I don't care.
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