The animated film is as good as we’ve seen it in a long time
New Delhi:
As wild and wacky as moving and magical, wild robotA DreamWorks Animation production written and directed by Chris Sanders (of Lilo & Stitch, How to Train Your Dragon and The Croods), it marks the medium’s emphatic return to its vibrant and vibrant hand-drawn moorings. Based on Peter Brown’s 2016 children’s book of the same name, the wonderfully accomplished The Wild Robot tells the story of a hapless helper-robot and an orphaned Gosling whose paths cross in tragic and turbulent circumstances on an uninhabited island.
A deep connection develops between the two, one a familyless avian and the other a lost machine intrinsically made for emotionless work. From their bond flows a moving mother-adopted daughter story that crosses the boundaries separating instinct from mechanics.
The superbly edited animated film blends technology, nature, wildlife and the vitality of humanity (though there are no human characters in the plot) to embark on a vivid exploration of motherhood and cross-species solidarity in a forest where predators roam free and the vulnerable are perennial. threatened with destruction.
Is peace and harmony possible in an environment where power is right, survival is a matter of chance and kindness is unheard of? As the robot explores the island and encounters the likes of Pinktail (Katherine O’Hara), a maternal possum, Longneck (Bill Nighy), an elderly Canada goose who helps the lonely gosling come of age, and Thunderbolt (Ving Rhames). He discovers new possibilities (initially, beyond his comprehension) that light the way forward for him and Gosling.
The lovely animations are superbly immersive and the storytelling quality is of the highest order. Wild Robot is all heart and all flair as it weaves a rich tapestry of color, emotion and dramatic situations into a simple yet evocative story of learning, learning and integrating across the lines that separate one species from another.
Rozzum Unit 7134, Roz for short (voiced by Lupita Nyong’o), is the sole survivor of a shipwreck that destroys a Universal Dynamics shipment of half a dozen robots. He washed up on an island, saying: “A rozum always gets the job done. Just ask.”
But there is no one to ask on the island. The creatures he encounters in an alien setting with no buyers and consumers are understood by his constant pleas for direction. Roz is a loose end, too. He toys with the option of going back to where he came from but is thwarted by a damaged transmitter.
Constantly looking for a task, he is chased by a grizzly bear (voiced by Mark Hamill). While escaping he crushes a goose nest and kills the mother. Only one egg survives. Rose saves it from a hungry fox, Fink (Pedro Pascal). The egg hatches and a Canada goose is born. Roz finds a purpose on the island. He also befriends Foxy Fink.
Rose raises Brightbill (Keith Connor) – a name she and Fink thought up for Gosling – and teaches him to swim and fly but not without grappling with difficult obstacles that make the tasks nearly impossible.
Early in the film, as he labors to underscore his reason for being, Rose states that he is “programmed for physical imitation”. Although no one has an immediate use for that feature, he goes on to demonstrate the benefits of adaptability, however difficult it may be. He makes slow but steady progress and learns to respond to feelings as opposed to acting only on instructions.
Deceptively complex stories range from the benefits of peaceful coexistence to themes of marginalization and misunderstanding in an ecosystem controlled by the power of the majority.
Both Rose and Brightbill are on edge of the world that they must find their way out. The island’s creatures keep Rose at an arm’s length, perceiving her as a monstrous pariah, epitomizing the classic plight of the quintessential outsider.
Brightbill is the litter’s rant, a weakling who doesn’t fit in. The struggle to belong to his kind balances him, but Rose and Fink, who laments that no one likes and believes in him, make common cause with him and form a team on an island where the laws of nature dictate that some animals are predators. will and others will be their victims.
Vontra (Stephanie Hough) arrives in an airship to take Rose back to Universal Dynamics. You don’t belong in the desert, Rose said bitterly. He insists that he does. I’m a wild robot, he insists. You are in the wrong place and you are the wrong thing, says Vontra. “You shouldn’t feel,” she says.
The Wild Robot has a sustained sense of drama power, a film that never flags even when some of its ideas come out to be a little stilted. It is never a bad idea to repeat facts that will never or should not become irrelevant and redundant.
Composer Chris Bowers, in his first animated film outing, provides a rousing score that flies, dives and floats as the creatures we see on screen struggle against the odds to survive predator attacks and other disasters.
If you love animated films, and even if you don’t, give your inner child a chance to enjoy its beauty and sheer power. wild robot. It’s as good as any we’ve seen for a long time.
