Pixar’s Magnum Opus

 Pixar is a star-studded studio with era defining classics such as The Incredibles and Ratatouille. Wall-E however might be the studio’s greatest achievement and one of the greatest productions to ever grace the silver screen with a definite nod for one of the best and most thought out first acts in the history of cinema.

The films first act contains hardly any dialogue and this extends to the films early moments of the second act when Wall-E is thrusted into a space saga for the ages. And despite the film’s extraordinary set piece of a sun scorched future earth barely held together, it contains perhaps the most bare bones human depiction of a character ever told. The films beauty stems from its lead Wall-E who holds all of the core attributes we consider in a great figure. His unique persona, charm and bravery catapults him into cinema history and makes the little robot one of its most human character’s despite his lack of any true human physical characteristics.

Even when people are introduced in the second and third act it is Wall-E that is the most human character by far in the film. His creativity, personality and charm exudes to an unimaginable degree and represents deep down what we all want within ourselves. We wish to live a self sufficient life with a love life and career path as secure as a robot that can’t string a sentence together. It is rather a scarce reality that within the film the robots showcase are creativity and our true human emotion and the humans exude our laziness and scary future of solitude, loneliness and lack of real human well, humanity.

Obviously a screenplay and film as ambitious as this is held together by a mesmerising score and visuals that will stand the test of time for as long as I can imagine. 

This combination of on screen beauty and characteristic beauty shared between Wall-E, Eve and many others in the film makes what is perhaps Pixar’s magnum opus.