Today we saw Walle with Eric Petusky. It was a very good movie. It was about this robot whose job it was to clean earth after all the human junked it up till it was sustainable for life again. Meanwhile all the humans were traveling on a ship around space. They were in the ship for about 300 years.
Walle found a living plant so they could return. Except the ship was fully automated and told not to return. So there was a real struggle to get it to return. Walle was almost destroyed in the process but he survived—of course, since it was Disney. But he found love, which brings up another point, that robots will eventually be able to feel emotions and experience love as well as all others.
It touched on a whole lot of themes relevant from today’s world.
One of the major themes was the aspect of pollution and litter. It showed if we aren’t careful the planet may become a landfill. It had trash all over and Walle‘s job was to organize it and look for signs of life.
That led into the theme of greed. It showed it by the effect of the stuff humanity threw away they really didn’t need or want. Also the fact of corporate greed was apparent in the fact of the ship being so luxurious. This was ironic because even when the captain wanted to go back to earth because it was able to sustain life, he had to fight with the computer, because it was programmed not to go back.
That was what led to the obesity theme. The people on board didn’t have to lift a finger for sustenance. Everything was served to them from a silver platter, on call when they wanted. This created major obesity amongst the passengers and even the captain, not to mention laziness. They had robots even make sure they stayed in their seats. They felt like prisoners.
The theme of love was also apparent. Not only with Walle and his friend, but the fact that humans fought to get back to earth to build their home again. They risked their lives and all. They did so by going to earth when they didn’t know if it was safe.
Also it touched on how the news media is blowing things way out of proportion and magnifying the world obesity situation which leads to hunger as well. Think about it, a company that had the acronym DNN and it was the enemy. It programmed the ship to stay out in space and hold everyone hostage if Earth became habitable again. DNN looks like CNN to me. So I think everyone shouldn’t live around the depressing news so much and have some fun and get exercise. Who knows maybe you’ll like it? Be as care free as children, there isn't any law that states adults have to work for so long and then they can rest.
