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Also, this would make a fun open-world game, perhaps a sythetic-bio themed sandbox a la Minecraft. Or like Spore, but without sucking.
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It’s a very worthy, but very difficult thing to tell stories that inspire people to face their role in the anthropocene. I think that’s the point of this film, to underscore the hubris of our species and a doomed attempt to recreate what we have destroyed. But I think the film is content to just set up a sad joke, rather than really make us think about our participation in creating Mokapzu Park. Are there other films you have seen that you thought closed the circle better?
I imagine this was their inspiration:
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Yes, the passengers of WALL·E are one of the most pointed critiques of Western culture I’ve seen in a mainstream animated film.
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Hilariously? I find it terribly sad, all that sweet green icing flowing down. I don’t think that I can take it.
What’s that?
Oh.
Never mind.
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It’ll be all right. Unless you lose the recipe.
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Awww, spore wasn’t so bad.
Oh… Upon replaying, it is.
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“Ooh, ahh. That’s how it always starts but then later there’s running and screaming.”
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I suppose I might be able to find some humor in a dying planet…
…if I had some other planet to live in after the punch line.
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