Prior to this experience, I never really liked the movie Wall-E. I didn’t like how little dialogue there was for much of the movie but watching it again, I was able to see the beauty in the silence of the movie. I feel like the writers and directors decided to eliminate much of the dialogue for the movie to be representative of the “hiatus” that the Earth needs from humans’ everyday activities and overall nature. Another relevant theme explored in this movie was capitalism’s effects and what it is doing/has done to the Earth. This is especially relevant in this time because climate change is a heavily debated topic in politics with one side denying climate change as a problem and the other disputing the opposite. Regardless of one’s views, it’s crucial that we are mindful of what we are doing to the Earth.

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.

Wall-E depicts a dystopian world in which humans have abandoned an environmentally degraded Earth for a life of abundant leisure in space. While the space-bound lifestyle was originally intended as a temporary solution while the Earth was being resorted, the human race finds itself still living extraterrestrially several generations later. Entirely detached from the the Earth-bound experience of generations past, people live entirely out of chairs, staring at screens, being catered to by an extensive fleet of robots. Wall-E is a robot left of Earth for the now-forgotten cleanup job. He finds love with another robot, Eve, who comes to Earth to search for signs of biological life. Together, the two robots bring about a mass-awakening of the humans aboard the ship, leading a triumphant return back to Earth. The film stands out for its powerful commentary on the human condition and our consistent disregard for the environment. While it is undoubtedly a well-animated, entertaining children’s film, it does not shy away from its direct criticism of modern society, our hedonistic ways, and our blatant willingness to accept permanent environmental destruction for temporary comfort. The film’s portrayal of humans as obese, unaware, and over-indulgent easily draws from contemporary culture. While such representations rang true at the time of the film’s 2008 release, they are undoubtedly even more evident ten years later. In a society ever-driven by consumerism, self-gratification, comfort, and content, these seemingly comical representations of human life become an unavoidably dark warning of what is to come. That these themes have only intensified in the decade since its initial release speaks to the film’s veracity and man’s unnerving indifference. Despite being an animated children’s movie, Wall-E arguably falls in the class of disturbing dystopian works like 1984 and Brave New World, each of which finds greater significance as time passes. Despite countless demonstrations of environmental ruin via human activities and physical and psychological degradation via increased screen time, we remain utterly complacent in our progression towards a dystopian future. While the storyline of Wall-E is still far from our reality, its social commentary is more valuable than ever before. It is important that we recognize such parallels with our own world and use films such as these to engage in active discussion and action.

WALL-E is a Pixar Studios computer-animated science fiction Disney film that won many awards including the 2008 Academy Award for best animated feature.  The film portrays the story of what may happen on earth if life ended due to a global catastrophe.  There are of two main characters, a trash compactor robot (WALL-E) living on earth and a probe (EVE) from an unmanned spaceship.  The two met on earth which has been abandoned by humans and covered in garbage.  One day, while cleaning up the garbage, WALL-E discovers a plant seedling, and soon therefore, an unmanned spaceship deploys EVE to scan the panel for plant life.  WALL-E and EVE communicate with body language and sounds, becomes friends and eventually fall in love.  When the star ship returns to earth to collect EVE, WALL-E tags along and travels to the mother ship.  Passengers are obese due to their sedentary, all automated life style (which sadly is what is happening with our youth now a days with the use of cell phone, tablets, and video games from early on while reducing physical activity and sports).  After a long struggle to protect the plant which Eve brought to the mother ship, Eve and WALL-E return to earth with the humans and robots and together restore earth again to become paradise. A happy ending, that may not be the case for our blue planet unless we all contribute to reduce pollution, climate change, and protect it to save not only humans but all other creatures on earth.

The vast majority of people who have seen Wall-E will agree with me that it is an amazing film. I hadn’t thought about what other goals could the film have besides providing kids and even adults with entertainment but now that i think about it, i realize that its key idea was to send a message to the people about taking care of our planet. If people continue completely ignoring the current environmental threats, one day, Earth could actually look very similar to the way it is shown in the film. Even though that would not happen in the near future, taking notice of the current issues would still be very beneficial to us and the nature.

He is sad and alone with a cockroach as his only friend on a mission to box all garbage on the planet. Waiting for someone to swing dance with, one day meets his one true love. But she isn’t looking for love she is there for work, her mission is to save humanity. He hasn’t seen anybody like her so he follows her, literally going to any distance for her. He follows her to a new land, to challenges he never faced before. Once she finally acknowledges his, it might have been too late. Her duty is what all she thought about in the past, but he invoked in her something she had never felt before: love. He would do anything for her, even risk his life. In the end, he saves humanity but not for humanity’s sake, but for her to notice him.

When WALLE one phrase that coming to mind was “humans…RE-lax.”. Why are humans so tragic to everything they come around. WALL-E paints a picture of a real possible for the world if humans keep going on the way we do.  In oceanography this year I learned that we are currently in the midst go our 6th extinction. This is due to over production and capitalism. Humans are doing the absolute most. But its not even humans like individuals, it is more like our government who refuse to acknowledge these changes for do anything about them. It is time the government acknowledges the climate changes and does something about them before WALL-E becomes or reality.

Wall-E is a classic children’s film and watching it again after many years, the experience was a little different. SA Katie brought up an obvious but easily missed detail that there is absolutely no dialogue for much of the film. I think it’s because there was no one on Earth except for Wall-E. There was no one to talk to. It was silent because the Earth had been so neglected that people no longer lived there. I also noticed how the Buy n Large Corporation logo was plastered everywhere. It seemed to own and control everything. After humans leave the Earth, BnL continues to govern their lives. They mindlessly listen to their screens, switching their suits when “blue is the new red.” The movie is also an image of what our Earth could look like due to climate change if we don’t start trying to regulate our impact on the environment. Wall-E is a little eerily too close to home.

The thing I like about Disney movies is that you can watch them at any age. Even now that I’m 19 I still watch many of the new ones. Sometimes it’s for a reminder of childhood like Finding Dory and Incredibles 2. Sometimes it’s for the emotional rollercoaster like Coco and Moana. But now I can laugh at some of the jokes that I may not have understood when I was a kid. Like the slow moving sloths scene in Zooptopia. But now that I’m older, I can easily pick out the clever jabs at society and hidden, overarching messages in these movies.

I remember watching WALL-E for the first time at a friend’s birthday party years ago. At the time, I just saw it as an animated movie with an interesting plot. But as years went by, I started realizing just how relevant and clever this story is. Watching it again reinforced this feeling. This is a love story that takes place in the midst of climate change and how humans have abandoned earth. The way the first third of the movie works without any sort of voice over is particularly fascinating; they creators’ use of visuals and music was fundamental in making this work. More than anything, you are drawn by the interactions between WALL-E and EVE and their development as a couple.

Then they take you into space and it makes a commentary on global warming. Humans have left the Earth and it’s believed that there is no salvation down there. But a tiny ray of hope, like a plant, can change the course of a civilization. Humans needed to be reminded of the beauty of Earth and how we have damaged most of our world. We must take responsibility for the use resources and vegetation before it’s too late. But perhaps it’s never too late, as WALL-E, EVE and the captain showed us throughout the movie. Now that I’m older, I appreciate the story and overall film achievement a lot more.

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.

Wall E is a Pixar masterpiece that I have appreciated for a long time. The movie released after Stanton, the director made a conscious choice to make a lesser-believable, movie after a couple of believable under-water animated films. I remember, as a 9 year old, eagerly waiting for the release of this movie. Having grown in a tech-driven family, all Pixar movies were always eagerly awaited.

Going through the movie, I especially appreciated the direction out of all the previous Stanton movies I had seen. This was because many of the characters in the movie do not even have voices. Most communication happens through body movements, body language, and minimal robotic sounds. This movie also represents an idealistic world. Shunning consumerism, moving towards a genuine, intellectual society, are things that I loved about the movie. This movie reminds me of my simpler life at the age of nine, where my dad took me on ice cream dates and we discussed ideological theories through movies and other sources. Thus, watching Wall E again, after so many days, was a delightful nostalgic ride.

When I went to watch WALL-E for Friday films at Rose, I expected a very kid-like movie. I remembered the movie vaguely from my childhood, but didn’t recall it being super evocative or thought-provoking. I can now safely say that was because of my bad memory, not because the movie wasn’t evocative or thought-provoking.

The movie explored some great themes of individuality, responsibility, duty, and of course, took a hard look at capitalism and its effect on our environment. It was a lot to pack into a kids movie. I cried at least three times. Later on in the night, when I explained my puffy red eyes to a friend. she was surprised that I could have cried during a movie about a robot.

“He’s not real, he’s not alive. What are you crying for?”

It was easy to laugh over in the moment, but it made me think about the movie in another way. That question of humanity, who is deserving of empathy and who is not? Is it dependent on their “humanity”? WALL-E, near the end of the movie (spoiler alert) nearly dies. Eve has to save him by replacing a damaged chip, and he seems to have his memory completely wiped. The entire essence and personality of WALL-E came from his memories, his eccentricities of programming, and with all of that wiped away, he became a mindless robot. How is that any different from people? We are made who we are by our memories, our lived experiences, and what we learn from it. If my memories were completely wiped, I as a person an entity would basically be dead, even if my body continued living.

The movie definitely got me thinking about a lot of topics like this, and though I’m not going to start crying for a bunch of inanimate objects, I think it’s important to recognize we should extend our empathy to other people and things that feel, regardless of how familiar they are to us.

This movie was amazing and hasn’t changed from when I originally saw it years ago.

After aging a few years, I could still get the same enjoyment I had years ago, proving that this movie is truly timeless.

But, what have I seen differently? For one, Buy N Large is a terrifying concept that I hope will never become an actual event in our history. While the movie exaggerates the waste and overpopulation of Earth, the idea of some megacorporation taking control of the planet terrifies me. I don’t know why I’m perfectly fine if its a government entity but opposed to a corporation though.

The one company that reminds me of this for some reason is Amazon after their purchase of Whole Foods. While in Brooklyn, I walked into a Whole Foods and was bombarded with Amazon information. Weren’t they just a website a few years ago? The scale is so different now.

But real talk, what happened to recycling and why couldn’t they just jettison their trash into the Sun if theyre so easily capable of building a massive interstellar fleet. Where did we even get the resources to do that? The Earth is already running out of resources yet they can manage all of this? hmmmmmmmmm its questionable but this mindset can only come from me killing the child in me. Why am I even asking these questions?

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.

Throughout watching Wall E, I kept thinking about how the reality of Earth getting trashed so much to the extent that we can’t live in it is very real. Nowadays politicians are doubting the real impact of Global Warming which is alarming since every little impact that one person can make would make a large impact in the end. Awareness is key for prevention, and as a strong advocate for the environment myself, I am always looking for more way to educate people on what they can do be it recycling more, turning off the tap water when unnecessary, etc.

The film was futuristic in an unnerving way by also depicting how in the future that technology becomes so inseparable to our lives that we forget our surroundings. In this manner, the movie really served as a warning to people how whilst technology is very important, we need to find ways to still enjoy the world that we live in. Because people were so invested in their own technologies, the people failed to see the dire issue at hand and were really oblivious to the gravity of the issues at hand. This message sends across the importance of knowing when to turn away from technological platforms such as social media, etc and look at the problems around us that need to be solved. In order to figure out how to get people to care more about the environment, I think it is imperative that people first realize that problems in the future are not just “future problems” that don’t need to figure out in the present. It is important that as a society we stress that while focusing on the present is important, is is imperative that we show selflessness in creating an environment for the future generations that are healthy to live in. With these types of issues, the question of who should burden the problem always comes, and I believe that it is a responsibility to social media companies as much as are people. The fact is that social media companies are built upon increasing its addictive behavior and until that stops, the disease that social media can be sometimes will not cease to exist.

Recently I had the chance to re-watch the movie Wall-E. I haven’t seen this movie in many years, so there were several parts that I had forgotten. One thing that stood out to me this time was how pretty much everything is run by one big mega-corporation. This corporation has essentially convinced all of the humans to follow all of their advice, such as the scene where they announce, “Try blue! It’s the new red,” and everyone instantly pushes a button that changes their outfit color from red to blue. Part of this phenomenon appears to be due to the fact that all of the humans are so engrossed with their devices that they no longer pay attention to their surroundings, so if they are told of a new fad (even if it isn’t really a fad yet), they just mindlessly go along with it. The particular lifestyle that the humans are living reminds me of how people respond to social media. Social media has the power to connect large groups of people–and indeed the people on the spaceship are very connected. However social media also tends to disconnect people from their environment. In the movie, people are constantly using technology to communicate with their friends, even if they are right next to each other. As a result they do not notice what is around them, such as the woman who failed to realize that there was a large swimming pool on the spaceship that she had spent her entire life on.

Watching the movie Wall-E had me questioning what it would be like being the last person on earth. I think I would live a routine life like Wall-E did, and live freely and explore. Living in a world without people would be like living without imagination or creativity. Seeing evidence of past life would stress me out and make me reminisce on the past. Overall, the movie was very interesting and reminded me of my childhood. My sisters and I would sit around on weekends and watch movies together.

Wall E is a movie from my childhood. It brings back stories of losing yourself and then rediscovering yourself. I think Wall E is such a hopeful character. He is abandoned and about to lose himself but how one person can bring the life back into him. It reminds me how here at Cornell, we are all so busy and lost in our coursework, but it’s the people and the friends we have here that bring us back from our lost world back to the real one.

I also like this movie, because the hero is Evie. This literally emphasizes girl power and that even a girl can save someone’s life. I really liked how Evie saved Wall E and that showed how deep their connection was, even though he was a robot. This movie shows that emotions can preserve memories, which is why we always remember the happiest and saddest moments in our life.

When I first saw WallE, I was in about third grade. At that age I kind of understood the gist of the movie, but I didn’t fully grasp the concepts given. Now at 19, given the current state of the world, I have a more complete idea of the message behind the movie. Watching it now, I would say that WallE was a commentary on the state of corporations and their interference in affairs of government. In the US there is an obvious and present separation of church and state.  At least that is how it should be in accordance with the law, the truth is more complicated. Such is the case with corporations. In terms of corporations, this distinction is more of a blurred line rather than a clear-cut distinction. This line is shown to be non-existent in WallE, as it was one corporation that controlled the entire world. WallE seems to be a cautionary look at potential repercussions we could face if we allow the corporations to consolidate and have control over municipal functions. This appears to be a simplistic cautionary look at what the future could be if we are not careful.

In the movie, it can be assumed that the company Buy N’ Large controls the entire world. This is based on the multiple shots that are shown of the entire globe. Yet, it seems to be Western-centric, more specifically the U.S. Since WallE is a kid’s movie, you can’t really fault it for not showing the nuances of the whole world but instead focusing in the U.S. However, a fault can be found in the absolute lack of diversity in the movie. The robots were the main characters in the movie, and the focus was rightly on them for most of the movie, but when the humans were brought on and given screen time the only humans that were given lines were the white characters. The captain of the ship and the two people that WallE interacts with were both white. Even when there is a shot of the previous captains of the ship, one can see they were all white men. And the few pops of color that are on the screen are most often shown to be black people. This is a problem in many forms because if it really is U.S centric, the U.S has a more diverse population than just black and white people. The critique I have of the movie it’s the portrayal of people as a population that is singular in nature when it is actually multifaceted.

Last Friday evening, I got the great opportunity to rewatch one of my favourite films of childhood (Wall-E). However, watching this film from the lens of a grown up made me read much more into what the movie had in store for the audience to learn from. I was able to learn about how powerful love can be between two individuals (in this case Wall-E and Eve) such that despite any barriers/obstacles they encounter their love for each other makes them persevere through it. This was very evident in the bond of Wall-E and Eve, who despite being harmed by the people in the ship, they still fought through it all!

The dining hall had been converted into a movie theater for us to watch the Disney Original Movie: WALL-E. The location that I am so used to having most of my meals in had changed its appearance and was a movie theater for the evening. Most Friday evening’s are extremely slow for me, after a week of hectic classes there is nothing that can drag me out of bed. However, my favorite movie WALL-E and the combination of my friends did succeed in doing so. WALL-E is an amazing movie, and rewatching it reminded me of our responsibility to the world, as well as Pixar’s talent to make movies. I enjoyed the movie, snacked on some goodies provided by SA Katie, and even got some homework done. Overall it was a good Friday evening!

On Friday night, I saw WallE for probably what was the tenth time. I didn’t really expect to get anything new out of it, but I actually found myself comparing the movie to today’s culture. In addition to the refusal to believe that the climate is changing, which could result in the wasteland of an Earth that WallE portrayed, there is an overall resistance to change. Just like the people on the space craft, who were constantly being bombarded with propaganda and were under the illusion that they were living fulfilling lives, we sometimes are so absorbed with the media in today’s social climate that it is difficult to realize what is going on around us. And similar to the forces that tried to stop WallE, the little robot who, contrary to his rusty old appearance, represented change, there always seems to be someone resistant to change.

Wall-E is an uplifting film. Robots are adorable and it has a happy ending. At the same time, however, there are all sorts of dark themes creeping in at the edges that make it a lot less calming than I had hoped.

Like, completely destroying the Earth and having to leave seems like an increasingly plausible scenario for humanity. And to what extent are we already just sitting around and getting fatter and letting technology do everything for us?

But most importantly: why did they make those robots sentient? I’m serious. Wall-E is a trash compacting robot. A robot that I am sure already exists in some form, except for the whole sentience bit.  Why would you want the robot that is doing your dirty work all day to be sentient? This movie was just asking for a robot apocalypse. In fact, now that I think about it, I am starting to believe that there was a robot apocalypse and that’s why all the humans had to leave. And then the robots got onto their ship anyway and found a perfect way to make the lives of all the humans onboard completely horrible. Which would explain Auto.

This is increasingly turning into a weird fan theory. Does Cornell have a major in conspiracy theories? I have a feeling I’d be good at it.

In conclusion: The earth is flat and Stanley Kubrick directed the faked moon landing.

My second time watching Wall-E ever and I had never realized that there is almost no dialogue in the movie but we are still sympathetic towards these characters. Especially Wall-E. When Wall-E first appears, I at Earth going about his day collecting trash, I felt sorry for him because he was all alone, except for his friend cockroach. Then he’s all excited once he meets Eve and has even fallen in love with her… And it’s the sweetest thing! With no words, you can see how these robots become friends and care for each other throughout the movie. It’s one of the best character developments from Pixar, which is why it has a 98% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. This movie is really heartwarming but also filled with a lot of messages of human complacency and the conservation of our planet.