Wall-E Revisited

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Before I attended the Friday Film “Wall-E,” I had probably seen the movie about 20 times before, but not by choice. In elementary and middle school, Wall-E was the first choice movie to show students. As a result, I quickly grew tired of watching it and eventually resented it. But I thought watching the movie as an adult would be a different experience so I decided to attend the Friday Film. I turned out to be right: the movie was an entirely different experience watching it as an adult. The hidden messages were much clearer and resonated with me on a higher level. As a student deeply concerned with climate change, the setting of Wall-E was also much more complex than I thought when I was a kid. Overall, revisiting Wall-E made me wonder what other movies would be better revisited as an adult.

2 thoughts on “Wall-E Revisited”

  1. I find that revisiting movies that I watched as a younger child is always a new experience for me as well. I feel like as a child we aren’t aware of the more significant messages that some of the movies are sending out. Rewatching the film as adults with some background knowledge about the issues we face makes watching children movies such as WALL-E different for us because we see that the movie was hinting at more significant issues such as global warming, advancing technology, overpopulation, and even obesity to name a few. I find that there are a lot of adults nowadays that don’t want their children watching princess movies such as Snow White because of the controversy of the plot. A prince comes in and saves the day by giving the princess a kiss, but it gives off the message that the prince is always the dominant character and it also put into play the role of consent and should the prince be able to do that. Animated children movie producers are becoming more aware of these issues and are creating films around these precautions to make movies for children that are both compelling and noncontroversial.

  2. I had a similar experience too! Re-watching this movie allowed me to appreciate the story and its meaning a lot more than when I was a kid, especially the global warming commentary.