Wall-E

      When watching a movie like Wall-E I seem to have gotten lost in the cuteness of the movie to originally seeing the underlying theme of the movie. In Wall-E, Earth was uninhabited, and instead was filled with robots like Wall-E who were there solely to compact all the trash that was left there. I thought that aspect of the movie was really sad. Until Wall-E found the boot with the last ounce of life on Earth. This brings up the environmental issue associated with the future in Wall-E. Why is there only one trace of life on Earth? What happened to Earth? Why aren't there any people? Not until later that the viewer discovers everybody had become obese and lived on hover chairs that complied to their every need which is a problem in itself. With this, it seems that the purpose of the work is to show what kind of corrupt society that we could begin if we continue with our habits now. Humans are always seen as lazy, and it is because of that lazy quality that we will become like the citizens on their chairs all day. 

      Wall-E shows that humans in the present are very interested in being lazy. It seems as though humans seem so overworked in the present that in the future, all they want to do is be lazy and enjoy the luxury that people normally get to enjoy after they retire. Of course the movie shows the flaw in humans and our constant desire to have things be easier, but it does however depict humans as ones to work hard now and play hard later. Wall-E is good at giving the example of an imperfect society to make the viewer think about contrasting the movie and making that contrast a reality.