I and my friends went to watch Wall-E a couple of weeks ago. I was really curious about it because one of my friends said, he wanted to watch it on the big screen even after watching it on the DVD. There must be something amazing about it.

 

So, there I was. Watching, laughing, feeling touched and marveled at the same time. The story is so simple yet convey deep messages to the audience. Though this movie speaks only a few words that we can hear, but it speaks thousands of words that we can see and feel. It’s about some time in the future where the Earth is no longer a nice place to live in. Rubbish is everywhere as far as your eyes can see. No body lives on Earth anymore. The inhabitants have escaped themselves and live in a spaceship somewhere in the universe. They live lazily, leaving this dusty Earth with some kind of robots who are supposed to clean the mess up.

 

Wall-E is the name. Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth. The only robot that is still “alive” and gathering all the rubbish, pressing them into boxes and piling them up to the same height as the Empire State Building. Watching Wall-E so busily work day by day reminded me of the busy lives that we all have everyday. How we, like him, try to pack and press our twenty-four hour time to meet the deadlines. But there is one thing missing. Wall-E lives, works, finds excitements all by his own. No one he can share his life with.  He’s all alone and lonely.

 

Then one day, everything is changed. A spaceship comes bringing EVE to Earth. Wall-E is so excited that he finally has a friend. You can tell from the way he is trying to show to EVE everything he has found: the bulb, the toy, the old movie (which I don’t know what it is…), the plant…And how he gets panicked when EVE seems to be “dead” and doesn’t react no matter how hard he tries.

 

It’s not that EVE doesn’t care. It’s just she has this mission to find a living thing on Earth to prove that it is not harmful anymore and that people can live on it. Mission has to be completed while the friendship is maintained. But somehow during the completion of this mission, Wall-E sacrifices himself and he is crushed. The only thing that can save him is to change his internal memory. But changing his “hard disk” means that erasing the whole thing in his memory. Now it’s him who forgets EVE and the whole happenings.

 

However I was glad to see the end of the story. When EVE is about to leave Wall-E and holds his hand, there seems to be something striking him. He regains his “consciousness” and recollections. He remembers her again as before. It’s the same as when some one is in coma. He may not be able to do anything, not even to open his eyes. He is like someone drifting away, very far from us. But some kind of recollections are still in his mind. The bond between people can’t easily be broken. He knows and feels our presence.

 

How many of us have found true friends in our lives? What would life be without these friends? Life would be meaningless as we go on with our busy lives everyday. Friends to share stories, to cry and to laugh with. The kind of friends that you don’t need to feel afraid to be with because you know they will accept you as who you are and will see the best in you?? The kinds that you can say “Hi” all the time and call just to tell silly stories??

 

It’s so easy to lose a friend, yet so hard to find a true one. One small misunderstanding can make us lose a friend. But finding one true friend is like finding a needle in a haystack. Of course, if we already find it, the hard work is worth it. J

 

I’m really thankful that I’ve got some true friends. More than I could ever think of. Without these friends, my twenty-four hour time won’t be the same. We’re not always together of course, but like one proverbs says “Friends are just like stars. You know they are always there even you can’t see them.”