WALL-E

After watching WALL-E for the second time I was reminded how incredible the movie is. On the surface this movie is warning us the consequence of not being responsible and taking care of the environment. Earth had been unoccupied with humans for some 700 hundred years; throughout that time humans had become more dependent on technology. What was ironic about this concept, with an increase in technology, it seems like a solution would have been created to eliminate the garbage. It was also interesting how the ship removed itself of garbage, basically they had large robots crunch the garbage into small square blocks, then the blocks would be released into space, so isn't this counterintuitive polluting space? Another concept that intrigued me was how the ships computer had a manual turn off. Maybe the forefathers (previous captains) had taken precautions if ever a robot take over was to occur. The filming techniques and soundtrack were so essential for the success this movie had. If you truly consider how the entire first half of the movie basically functioned as a silent film, you realize just how important these methods were. I enjoyed how the camera exposed the audience to the entire sense not just continuously focusing on a certain character. The soundtrack/score in this movie continually enhanced the film. For instance, when the Captain was fighting the ship’s computer, the soundtrack work by making that scene seem more dramatic. This film consistently used humor, making the movie amusing to watch. I believe this is a hard task to accomplish in a G-rated film, for your humor has to be appropriate. One sense I thought was particularly funny was when Wall-e was spying on Eve in shopping center, when he accidentally bumped into some shopping carts, that responded by running him over. Some themes that existed in this movie were love, humanity, and technology. Love was consistently shown by Wall-e, who sacrificed his own life countless times to save Eves. It was interested how this movie used robots to demonstrate that love. Humanity can be best explained through the captain’s actions, having a desire to return to earth, where humanity originally started. Another scene that correlates humanity was when the spaceship was being tilted to the side, and all the new born babies were being tossed to the side, this scene two adults took the initiative and sacrificed their lives to assure the safety of the children. This film showed that if technology is not controlled it will eventually lead humans to become lethargy. Technology provided humans food, entertainment, it even lugged them around, this caused humans to become obese and complete reliant on their technology. When the captain was given a book, he was oblivious on how a book functions. However, when the Captain and the crew took control over the technology they benefited because of it; henceforth, they were able to use the robots to build houses, drill water, basically recreated civilization.