WALL-E

July 16. 2008, under Blog with 5 Comments

Yesterday, Kat and I went to see WALL・E after going out for dinner with both of our mums. Dinner was good (even though I got like the biggest meal ever and couldn’t finish it) and the movie was awesome! It’s honestly one of the best movies I’ve seen recently and I would tell everyone who hasn’t seen it to go see it. RIGHT NOW.

If you haven’t heard much about it, it’s about a robot named WALL・E who was left on Earth (with others of his kind) to clean up the mess the humans had made. Meanwhile, humans are floating around in space on a luxery starship. The other robots have all broken down and WALL・E is the only one left, making buildings out of trash that he compresses into blocks. He has a little cockroach friend who travels around with him. Being a curious little robot, WALL・E collects things he finds interesting and keeps them in his home. He also loves musicals (I think it’s Hello Dolly he’s watching in the film) and constantly plays music as he does his work.

Then a spaceship lands on the planet, and WALL・E meets Eve. A pod sent from the human starship. Long story short, WALL・E ends up following Eve back to the Axiom (where the humans live) and we see that humans are now lazy, obsese and have no idea of anything that goes on around them nor do they have any contact with each other or appreciation of what they are surrounded by. Their meals come in drinks, they’re told when to sleep and when to wake up, the children are basically brain washed by the company (BnL) that built the starcraft. There’s a captain who really doesn’t do much except make announcements and follow orders from AUTO, an auto pilot robot. Everything is run by machines.

The other robots in the movie were totally great. I LOVE M-O! He’s a clean freak and is constantly cleaning up after WALL・E’s track marks because they contain “Foreign Contaminate”. The love story between Eve and WALL・E is also too cute. And I love the fact that they ‘rescue’ the ‘malfunctioning’ robots.

A lot of the movie basically seems like a prediction of what we may become in the future, and really, it’s not too inaccurate. The humans have trouble walking, because they’ve never had to before. The captain spends hours learning what the Earth is. . . what the sea is, what dancing is. . . It’s hard to imagine a human being not understanding those simple concepts, but in WALL・E they’ve never had to.

Anyways, all in all it was a great movie and it really makes you stop for a minute to consider what we’re doing here. If we continue at the rate we’re going, are we going to destroy our planet like they did in the movie? Are we going to become completely reliant on machines instead of doing things ourselves?

There’s a lot of other messages thrown in there as well, but I think I’ve rambled enough about it for now. It really was a fun, cute, enjoyable movie with a message that I think we should all, at the very at least, consider.

The ending is awesome and hopeful. And, the best line ever?

“This is called farming! You kids are gonna grow all sorts of things! Vegetable plants, pizza plants…it’s good to be home!”