Question

Observation Techniques: Film Analysis

This week, you will analyze a three- to five-minute segment of a movie or a television episode depicting attraction, intimacy, friendships, and/or altruism.

After watching the movie section, create a in-depth report on your analysis. In your report:

• Mention the name of the movie.
• Describe the setting and overall story line of the movie.
• Describe the main characters in the observed movie section.
• Describe the situation that you analyzed and interpret the action of the characters depicting attraction, intimacy, friendships, and altruism.
• Draw conclusions based on social psychological concepts and theories.

Answer 1

I chose the movie WALL-E. This is a love story between a robot made for clearing the waste on post apocalyptic world and another robot EVE who is programmed to find out signs of life on the earth. They set out together on a path that would change mankind 's destiny. When EVE finds a seedling she goes into a standby mode and a probe collects her and returns to her mother ship Axiom where the humans now stay as a result of earth turning into waste land. The proof of life will prompt the spaceship to return to earth and restart recolonization. The robots are united as humans begins to live on earth.

The main characters of this film are two robots who met in the most unlikeliest situation and fall in love. The film is set on a post-apocalyptic waste filled earth. The humans are living abroad a spaceship Axiom which is light years away from earth whose passengers are a human race oblivious to planet earth. The story changes when EVE ,programmed for detecting life forms finds a seedling .

In the movie when EVE finds the seedling she goes into a standby mode. WALL-E who is in love with her tries out everything to wake her up. He holds an umbrella to protect her from rain and in turn gets hit by a lightning, twice. He covers her up from the sandstorm and even tries to use his solar powered battery to bring her back to life. The relentless trying to take care of someone in love brings a human emotion to the solar powered robot. The way he is in love with her ,with no way of communicating with her is sweet. Doing everything in his power to not loose her ,which involves a space trip to an unknown place makes this Pixar movie a relatable one where, we forget the logic about artificial intelligence and see as simply as two people in love.