Accessibility

Every single time I have watched WALL-E in the past I have thought of it as a cute family movie, which it is, but this time around there were so many more aspects that stood out for me. While the environmental issue in WALL-E has always been at the forefront for discussion, I found myself relating to the humans that had been in space waiting for Earth to become inhabitable again. The commodity of accessibility and effortless attainability of goods is seen everywhere today. Through Amazon, online shopping, and technology in general, there is an entire world at our fingertips that we have to put little to no effort in obtaining. We don’t have to go to stores, banks, or even restaurants to get the things that we want because they can be delivered to our front doorstep. Over time, this accessibility becomes second nature and we do not realize that many of these things didn’t even exist 15 years ago. We become unaware of our dependency and expectations of it, just in the case of the humans on the ship. Although WALL-E is a great movie to watch with a family and young children, it brings us to think about our need for easy access.

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  1. While re-watching this movie I too saw the parallels between wasteful consumerism and corporate monopoly that WALLE warns about. Prescient if not thought provoking.