'The Child is father of the Man'
Great Frank Rich column in the NYT today about the animated film Wall-E:
At the end [the children in the audience] clapped their small hands. What they applauded was not some banal cartoonish triumph of good over evil but a gentle, if unmistakable, summons to remake the world before time runs out.
You have to wonder what these same kids make of the political show their parents watch on TV at home. The fierce urgency of now that drives "Wall-E" and its yearning for change is absent in both the Barack Obama and McCain campaigns these days.
