I always think it's weird that this aspect to the movie didn't get discussed! The plot revolves around the coded-female robot being given a seed by a coded-male robot and trying to keep it alive in her belly. EVE doesn't really read as "pregnant woman" because of all the stereotypes we have surrounding THAT (although, mood swings), but WALL-E definitely reads to me as "worried husband of pregnant woman."
The comment that I made to my sister afterwards was, "Is this Children of Men with adorable robots?"
I don't know if that, by itself, is a problem for me. Maybe it's sort of brilliant and sort of ooky to tell such a biological and gender-coded story using characters who have no biology and no gender. We have to root for EVE's success because, well, the continuation of life on earth is a good thing, and she's a robot without actual emotions or free will, but--it's still ooky, to me.
Thinking on Pollan a little more, he gets himself in trouble when he's trying to negotiate the boundaries between public policy and personal responsibility. Government food policy is a disaster and there's HFCS in everything--therefore you should buy whole foods at the farmer's market. Which is true, but can we stop blaming people who don't have that luxury, and change the food policies already?
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Date: 2009-09-27 04:40 am (UTC)The comment that I made to my sister afterwards was, "Is this Children of Men with adorable robots?"
I don't know if that, by itself, is a problem for me. Maybe it's sort of brilliant and sort of ooky to tell such a biological and gender-coded story using characters who have no biology and no gender. We have to root for EVE's success because, well, the continuation of life on earth is a good thing, and she's a robot without actual emotions or free will, but--it's still ooky, to me.
Thinking on Pollan a little more, he gets himself in trouble when he's trying to negotiate the boundaries between public policy and personal responsibility. Government food policy is a disaster and there's HFCS in everything--therefore you should buy whole foods at the farmer's market. Which is true, but can we stop blaming people who don't have that luxury, and change the food policies already?