Remembering all the hype about WALL-E when it first came out, I was finally able to see it when my eighth grade science teacher played it in class (or at least the first time I could remember seeing it). While many things I remembered about the movie was basically the same regarding the plot, one of the things I understood better was the critique of the growth of powerful megacorportations and rampant consumerism. At the beginning of the movie, as the camera pans through the devastated and polluted landscape, filled with the hollow husks of shopping malls, towering stacks of trash, and the still functioning Buy-N-Large advertisements. We later find out later on was in the American Midwest, near the Great Lakes area (at least based on what I remember as where the Axiom landed). In WALL-E’s world, literally everything is controlled by and owned by Buy-N-Large. The American government (the background of the videos with the CEO in it), and we would conclude the entire Earth as well, the Moon (though they never really got to open that shopping mall like they were planning to), and even the main protagonists and antagonists of the film are BnL creations. Most of us were pretty young at the time when the movie came out, so we might have not even thought that much of what the producer is trying to say about our society. However, I feel that the younger generation now seems to realize that this could be the future that our world is heading towards, hence the popular ideal of sustainability. Maybe we were all consciously, or subconsciously, influenced by the warnings presented in the film.