WALL-E: Love, Pollution, and Pizza Plants In 2008, Disney and Pixar teamed up once again, this time to create an animated film that not only had an unlikely, yet adorable romance, but a powerful anti-consumerism message as well. Sure, we are aware of the pollution and wasteful practices of the humans in real life, but this film took the drastic future consequences a step further, making it a real eye-opener to the problems we have in store for Earth down the road. The main characters were not human, yet their love story was one of the purest of all the animated films in existence today. With its astronomically high number of positive reviews from all fronts and countless awards (including six Academy Award nominations and TIME Magazines #1 slot for “Best Movies of the Decade”), WALL-E will go down in history as one of the greatest animated films of the century. It is the story of the last functioning Waste Allocation Load Lifter, Earth class (WALL-E), a robot designed to clean up the immensely-polluted earth. The year is 2805, and there are no humans left on Earth, as life is now unsustainable thanks to our over-consuming and over-polluting with the help of the mega corporation with the catchy advertising jingle: Buy-n-Large (BnL). Unable to restore Earth back to its former glory, BnL sends the human race to live in space for a few years while the crew of WALL-E’s clean up. After a few years, however, they realize the project is simply impossible and humanity is forced to remain in space until further notice. A high-tech robot named EVE comes to Earth to look for remains of life, and eventually finds one lone plant. After a run-in with WALL-E, the story becomes a chaotic adventure for the two of them. Audience members are eventually led away from Earth, and its trash-piles in the shape of skyscrapers and toxic gases, to the space station Axiom, where we see whats become of the human race since leaving Earth. The humans are morbidly obese and operate in the same daily schedule, just like robots. In a sense, the movie is more of a role reversal, with humans moving and thinking like robots while the robots themselves possess more humanistic qualities, such as creative thought and a range of emotions. With brilliantly composed songs such as “Define Dancing,” and the opening song, “Put on Your Sunday Clothes” from Hello Dolly!, WALL-E is a musical masterpiece that flows well with the flawless animation and purposes of each scene. The story of WALL-E and EVE is not just a cute love story between two individuals, but an animated projection of what is to become of the human race if we continue consuming and polluting our planet as much as we do currently. We are shown a society where humans are not treated as individuals but exist together as brainwashed beings with no motivation to do anything but consume, consume, consume. They are clueless about what life would/could be like on Earth, as the captain mistakenly thinks that this foreign food object known as “pizza” can be grown from plants. It provokes a strong message against promoting consumerism to children through obsessive brand marketing and an overabundance of advertising messages from the time theyre infants, much like the real world today. Wall-E is an emotional rollercoaster that is humorous, thought-evoking, and may even qualify as a tear-jerker in some parts. Director Andrew Stanton even described it as “irrational love defeats lifes programming.” For more information or questions regarding buying or selling used family DVDs from Wall-E to Tangled, visit used-familyentertainment. If you have any questions, please email us at customerservice@secondspin.
Posted on: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 06:10:28 +0000
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