From the ingenious humans at Pixar came the tender-hearted story of…a machine – imbued with so much feeling that it won over audiences in the year of its release, and also earned recognition as one of the most of outstanding achievements in the art of the moving image with an AFI AWARD in 2008. According to the official rationale, “WALL-E proves to this generation and beyond that the film medium’s only true boundaries are the human imagination. Writer/director Andrew Stanton and his team have created a classic screen character from a metal trash compactor who rides to the rescue of a planet buried in the debris that embodies the broken promise of American life. Not since Chaplin’s ‘Little Tramp’ has so much story — so much emotion — been conveyed without words. When hope arrives in the form of a seedling, the film blossoms into one of the great screen romances as two robots remind audiences of the beating heart in all of us that yearns for humanity — and love — in the darkest of landscapes.”
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