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...fear not; “Wall•E” is not a tragedy.“It’s a love story, a love story between two robots,” Stanton said. Wall•E meets a fellow robot Eve, who arrives in a spaceship from another planet and brings adventure into lonely Wall•E’s life. Even robots, Stanton says, have to eventually ask the question, “Does what I’m doing matter?” Eventually Wall•E comes to the understanding that...
...have noted there's something sci-fi about an election in which two leading candidates are a woman and a black man. "By the time this came," a Pennsylvanian told the New York Times Magazine, regarding Barack Obama's run, "I thought I'd be flying around in a spaceship or driving in some kind of Jetsons vehicle...
...directed Conrad in some of these films, was also present.Many of the shorts depicted absurd situations and had a trippy feel. In one, actors emerged from a metal tin of spaghetti wearing pink dresses and were doused in tomato sauce. Then, the container blasted off into space like a spaceship. The silliness of such films, which contrasts with the avant-garde formalism of his earlier projects, was a point of interest for the audience. In the question-and-answer session following the screening, one viewer addressed this issue, pointing out that the comical shorts not only appeared radically different from...
...Erez Crossing looks like the empty set of a sci-fi film, an alien spaceship that crashed into a field of rubble. This gleaming metal structure is the sole entry and exit point for human traffic between Israel and Gaza, a territory of 1.5 million Palestinians held by Hamas Islamic militants. Erez was built in more optimistic times, when it was envisioned that every day 30,000 Palestinian laborers, merchants and students would be flowing in and out of Israel...
...Universes within universes - the interdependency of all living things everywhere - is Geisel's theme in Horton. In the Jungle of Nool something foreign lands on a piece of clover. It's not a spaceship but an entire alien world: the nearly infinitesimal planet of Who-ville. Horton the elephant, his large ears giving him the most acute hearing, detects cries from the clover speck. He can't see the little Whos, but he deduces, believes, knows that sentient creatures are in there; and his caring instinct tells him that they must be protected. He builds a rapport with the tiny...