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		<title>By: Mark Blankenship</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mark Blankenship</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:51:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wait... seriously? Who has called the movie &quot;too liberal?&quot; That&#039;s clearly just an empty, knee-jerk reaction. Like you said, the movie embraces a lot of traditional values, though it also makes room for a pluralistic society. (Hence the presence of a Christ allegory next to an Isis/Osiris reference.)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wait&#8230; seriously? Who has called the movie &#8220;too liberal?&#8221; That&#8217;s clearly just an empty, knee-jerk reaction. Like you said, the movie embraces a lot of traditional values, though it also makes room for a pluralistic society. (Hence the presence of a Christ allegory next to an Isis/Osiris reference.)</p>
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		<title>By: Frank Hope</title>
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		<dc:creator>Frank Hope</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:55:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Mark. Thanks. I&#039;ve been reading many reviews on the web and have been amazed at the amount of dialogue that this film has generated. 

Some have gone as far as to describe the film as a sort of Rorschach test. I think that&#039;s a bit cynical. I would say that it is a work of art. Were not used to viewing art in American society. We like our information predigisted. When faced with art which must be interpreted some people seem perplexed. 

Of course the most ridiculous have been some conservative critics who have bashed the film for being too liberal without taking the time to examine the good old fashioned conservative principles that are embraced by the film as well.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Mark. Thanks. I&#8217;ve been reading many reviews on the web and have been amazed at the amount of dialogue that this film has generated. </p>
<p>Some have gone as far as to describe the film as a sort of Rorschach test. I think that&#8217;s a bit cynical. I would say that it is a work of art. Were not used to viewing art in American society. We like our information predigisted. When faced with art which must be interpreted some people seem perplexed. </p>
<p>Of course the most ridiculous have been some conservative critics who have bashed the film for being too liberal without taking the time to examine the good old fashioned conservative principles that are embraced by the film as well.</p>
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		<title>By: Mark Blankenship</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mark Blankenship</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 05:40:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks, Frank! And thanks for directing me to that quote from Stanton. 

I really enjoyed your review as well. The analysis of the movie as a post-Communist manifesto is really thought provoking.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks, Frank! And thanks for directing me to that quote from Stanton. </p>
<p>I really enjoyed your review as well. The analysis of the movie as a post-Communist manifesto is really thought provoking.</p>
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		<title>By: Frank Hope</title>
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		<dc:creator>Frank Hope</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 02:28:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I enjoyed your review of WALLâ€¢E. I&#039;ve written my own review which I hope you will take the time to read.
http://futurenewstoday.blogspot.com/2008/07/walle-post-fascist-utopia.html

I picked up on some of the biblical references in WALLâ€¢E, and even have a brief line in my review about WALLâ€¢E being a &quot;savior&quot;. But it was only after I finished writing my review and did some more exploring on the net that it ocurred to me that WALLâ€¢E could have been intended as a Christian allegory.

This is reinforced by some comments from the creator/director, Andrew Stanton, in this interview.
http://www.worldmag.com/articles/14127

STANTON: Well, what really interested me was the idea of the most human thing in the universe being a machine because it has more interest in finding out what the point of living is than actual people. The greatest commandment Christ gives us is to love, but that&#039;s not always our priority. So I came up with this premise that could demonstrate what I was trying to sayâ€”that irrational love defeats the world&#039;s programming. You&#039;ve got these two robots that are trying to go above their basest directives, literally their programming, to experience love.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I enjoyed your review of WALLâ€¢E. I&#8217;ve written my own review which I hope you will take the time to read.<br />
<a href="http://futurenewstoday.blogspot.com/2008/07/walle-post-fascist-utopia.html" rel="nofollow">http://futurenewstoday.blogspot.com/2008/07/walle-post-fascist-utopia.html</a></p>
<p>I picked up on some of the biblical references in WALLâ€¢E, and even have a brief line in my review about WALLâ€¢E being a &#8220;savior&#8221;. But it was only after I finished writing my review and did some more exploring on the net that it ocurred to me that WALLâ€¢E could have been intended as a Christian allegory.</p>
<p>This is reinforced by some comments from the creator/director, Andrew Stanton, in this interview.<br />
<a href="http://www.worldmag.com/articles/14127" rel="nofollow">http://www.worldmag.com/articles/14127</a></p>
<p>STANTON: Well, what really interested me was the idea of the most human thing in the universe being a machine because it has more interest in finding out what the point of living is than actual people. The greatest commandment Christ gives us is to love, but that&#8217;s not always our priority. So I came up with this premise that could demonstrate what I was trying to sayâ€”that irrational love defeats the world&#8217;s programming. You&#8217;ve got these two robots that are trying to go above their basest directives, literally their programming, to experience love.</p>
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