Philip Vandy Price’s review published on Letterboxd:
“Sometimes, hearts have their own conversations.”
Bold in that it doesn't shy away from the unforgiving nature of...nature. The first hour of The Wild Robot is a truly beautiful, honest, sometimes crushing take on both the hardships and rewards of parenthood. The often unforgiving and overwhelming choices you and your partner have to make in choosing to take the tougher, more difficult but ultimately more rewarding path in favor of the dismissive, absent option that undoubtedly causes lifelong repercussions is a daunting weight that overshadows every decision after seeing that sweet little face for the first time. I'd like to think the choice seems obvious to all and the truth is most of us land somewhere in the middle because we're all imperfect, but we all know actions speak louder than words and the "try" is often as good as the "win"; deciding to take action in the first place is half the battle. The final half hour kind of devolves into plot machinations and loses the metaphor in favor of what feels like a rushed resolution, but man - the migration sequence alone is a litmus test of the soul. Full-on waterworks for this beautiful, in all aspects, movie.
“What happened was not your fault, but what you did to try and fix it was everything.”
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