Wall-E

Wall-E is a film I always enjoy watching because I feel like it portrays an important message regarding waste and brings awareness to the need for conservation and increased environmental protection.  Since it was produced under the Pixar realm, it doesn’t have much similarity to typical Disney films, but is just as entertaining to watch.  In fact, it is very interesting how futuristic this movie is, incorporating robots as its main characters, which is one of my favorite parts of the movie.  I especially love their voices – one of my friends and I even try to say each other’s names like how Eve says “Wall-E” and Wall-E says “Eve.”

Watching Wall-E again, I noticed how the beginning of the film is a slow and contains no talking or interaction between characters, which are not usually appealing aspects of a film.  However, I feel that the lack of speaking emphasizes the message of the film.  It makes it easier to portray the earth as a dead, empty, waste-filled region, where the skeyscrapers are made out of trash, rather than actual structures.  Instead of a typical city we have today, the city depicted in Wall-E is just a city of trash.

It is sad and repulsive how the only humans shown are basically incapacitated and on a vacation while the world they destroyed is dying.  Instead, the humans let all their waste compile taking over the world and destroy their environment, while the poor Wall-E is left to clean up the mess.  Even Wall-E shows more care and compassion for the environment than humans do.  For example, when he sees the green plant, a sign of life on Earth, he carefully picks it up from the group and nurtures it.  Also, the humans are so obese that they can’t do anything on their own and must rely on robots to do the most basic actions for them, like traveling around and getting up from the ground.  Their inability to do anything is truly shown in the scene when hundreds of extremely obese people start helplessly rolling down the slanted spaceship.  Clearly, this is a problem and hopefully not a prediction for people in the future.

Since the commercials from an earlier time depict humans, and the rest of the movie contains only animated characters, is Wall-E supposed to represent our future?  Is our current time period the one from which the old commercials are from?  If so, Wall-e is a warning and a prediction for the future – a future consumed by obesity, food, and robots – if we don’t change our ways.  As a society, we must stop using, consuming, and wasting, and make more of an effort to conserve Earth’s natural resources and the environment.

I also think it is very interesting how the “villain” in this film, Auto, is a robot that was created by humans.  Since humans created robots like Auto, do humans naturally create evil?  Depicted in Wall-E, humans were the cause of the first problem, which was destroying the Earth, and each subsequent problem that followed, such as the robot taking over.

We should be more aware of our actions, and make changes now, before it is too late.