Films are created as a reflection of society. They are designed to be a storytelling platform that inform the viewing audience about a specific message. Often time, films are created to address society’s present state, but rather end up predicting the future. From the 1968 hit film, 2001: A Space Odyssey, that predicted space tourism and algorithm operating systems, to the jaw-dropping 1984 film, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, that predicted the creation of mobile phones, one could argue that the entertainment industry unknowingly predicted the future accurately. However, while many films predicted the future positively, the 2008 science fiction film WALL-E predicts the future truthfully and accurately, ultimately revealing a dystopia …show more content…
However, while this robot is unaware of the futility of his work, as Earth was ravaged by humans and left in uncleanable conditions, WALL-E’s lonely lifestyle grants him a curious, optimistic personality. While WALL-E goes about his daily duties, he is surprised by the arrival of EVE, a futuristic robot who was sent by the Axiom, a spacecraft created by the corporation Buy n Large, to investigate for signs of life, in hopes that humans could return to the planet. Buy n Large created the Axiom to inhabit all of the humans on Earth, while Earth was cleaned by WALL-E’s; the film fails to explain why WALL-E was the last WALL-E unit remaining. After WALL-E and EVE create an emotional connection, WALL-E stumbles across a plant. When WALL-E shows EVE the plant, her instincts kick in, and she realizes that the plant was the goal of her mission. She takes the plant, gets aboard a space shift, and starts her ascent to the Axiom. Reluctant to lose the one connection he made, WALL-E latches on the ship and makes his way to the Axiom. The scene following WALL-E’s arrival on the Axiom accurately depicts society’s current reliance on technology and reveals that society’s future is dim and …show more content…
This scene illustrates the future dystopia that society is heading towards. As the scene begins, WALL-E is merely a very small figure in the top of the scene, while the rest of the scene is complete with moving levitating chairs and a complex technological transportation network. This zoomed out high-angle camera shot illustrates the power of technology and great overdependence that humans have on technology. As the scene progresses, the camera focuses on the functions of the levitating chairs and specifically emphasizes the bright lights and human fascination with the social networking personal hologram, revealing how the future is consumed by social media and how advanced technology is becoming. After the functions of the chairs are shown, WALL-E is stopped in his tracks by an obese person who appeared to fall off of his chair. While the obese man flailing is the center of the shot, it is WALL-E’s reaction that draws attention from the audience, as he is stunned by the man’s incapability to stand up. The fast-paced moving of the levitating chair network represents the action and intensity of the scene and impacts the viewing audience by raising their heart rate. The sound effects of the scene—whether it be dialing on a phone, the sound of a levitating chairs passing, computer
We constantly hear we are in the ‘age of technology’. It’s crazy how much technology we use on a daily basis. It has become so routine to have technology incorporated into our daily lives that we don’t realize how much we rely on it. Who would have thought Pixar’s animation Wall-E could have so much technological awareness incorporated into the plot. The director of Wall-E created this movie with a universal message of what will happen to our society over time if we do not stop relying on technology.
People often write off animated films as childish and lacking any depth. However, the movie, Wall-E, points a large microscope at our society and our potential future. In the movie Wall-E, it’s a robot name Wall-E and Ben Burtt’s play’ him. Also, there are other characters is Eve and Elissa Knight play’s her. There's a that they go on because the planet earth doesn’t have a living plant except one. They have to place the plant in the place that the plant will go so they can get to earth. The Captain is played by Jeff Garlin and, the Captain had a hard time to get the plant into the deposit that it’s supposed to go in. Satire is used for humor and poke fun at a thing that is happening like when the place is in the chair they are too lazy to get up and do their own things. Also, they have the robots bring them the food. It pokes fun at humans because humans are lazy and us humans what other people or robots to get are things cause the humans made robots so people wouldn’t have to get up. They also wanted to show what happens to the earth if we don’t take care of it and, it will turn all to trash and doesn’t look like a nice place to live. The director Andrew Stanton used the movie, Wall-E, and satire as a way to criticize and comment on technology and environment in our society.
The opening scene of Wall-E is deep in outer space with the camera zooming in, angled high of an extreme wide shot of the polluted wasteland known as Earth, with billions of artificial satellites circling around it and is no indication of life whatsoever, as the surviving humans have evacuated onto a giant spaceship called the Axiom. When the main protagonist
The film Wall-E is related to the science and description area because it talks about the environment and what can happen in the future. The film starts with a robot named Wall-E and he has been assigned to clean up Earth from all the waste that the humans have left behind. It shows him coming out of his house that is full of little different things that humans would think are trash but he does not know what they are and considers them treasures. As he is performing his duties he hears another ship land and drops off another robot named Eve. Eve’s mission is to find any living
The children 's movie Wall-E, released in 2008, features two fun-loving robots created of different times, Wall-E and EVE. This movie is set hundreds of years into the future where the Earth has become inhabitable due to the expanse of trash that litters the surface. Wall- E, short for Waste Allocation Load Lifter- Earth class, has a primary job of cleaning and disposing of the trash that covers the Earth 's surface while the humans reside in a spaceship. As the viewer watches Wall-E, the robot, as he scours the streets
Just like this poem, Disney Pixar’s, Wall-E, explores the fears of today’s society, and life after a worldwide catastrophe where humans are incapable of changing their destructive path are doomed to repeat history unless they have a “second coming”. As Wall-E begins, Wall-E is alone on Earth cleaning up humanity’s garbage until a search drone, EVE (Extraterrestrial Vegetation Evaluator), sent from a human escape pod, Axiom, lands on
WALL-E, a Pixar film whose target audience is children, tells an incredibly complex story for adults about the future of humanity. The scene unfolds some seven centuries from now, when the Earth has undergone a complete environmental collapse, a sort of fatal and global toxic shock. The planet is all dirt-brown vistas and dead cities, and not a living creature to be seen. Earth has become a giant landfill. The planet’s only citizen seems to be a sanitation robot named Wall-E (short for Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) who's spent untold centuries puttering around a poisoned Earth, busily compacting the mounds of garbage and debris left by a big-box-shopping culture and turning them into neat little cubes that he then stacks into
Wall-E then continues to address other environmental issues as well. For example sustainability as seen through the only small plant left on the polluted Earth after Buy ‘n’ Large as well as the characters left Earth in starliners into space. Human interactions with the environment have caused major shifts and changes within the environment affecting the way animals live as well as humans live. The
Wall-E possessed many human characteristics that were evident throughout the movie. Some would argue that Wall-E was even more human than the humans. He showed many human characteristics but I believe that his most notable trait was his devotion. He displays his devotion to Eve when he climbed up that garbage shoot to be with her, despite how dangerous it was. He also displayed devotion to Eve when he thought that Eve was being hurt in the repair room; he panicked and tried to save her. Wall-E possessed many other human characteristics as well, such as his curiosity. He displays his curiosity when he plays with the fire extinguisher, which was an unknown object to him. Wall-E is also very loving. He shows his love for Eve when he refuses to
The future has been interpreted in so many ways by science fiction novelists and directors alike. Different depictions of the future can be observed between Richard Marquand’s Return of the Jedi and Robert Zemeckis’s Back to the Future part 2. Richard Marquand’s picture of the future is quite dark and oppressive, where all the good people of the world are deemed outlaws by injustice, while Robert Zemeckis’s picture of the future is quite uplifting in comparison to Marquand’s picture of the future. Although Return of the Jedi is set ‘a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away’ it is still deemed futuristic, due to the use and constant development of advanced technology throughout the Star Wars series, all star wars movies are deemed as futuristic.
Wall-E is a Disney Pixar movie that deals with overconsumption, obesity and the result of humans not managing waste properly. The heart of the story focuses on Wall-E and Eve that aid humans whom have trashed the planet and left the earth until the planet is habitable again (Stanton). The United States and other parts of the world have a consumption problem. The obesity in the film reflects the lack of empathy for the planet and ourselves as a society. At the very core of Wall-E is a warning to correct the destructive consumer culture that contributes to global warming, loss of land and loss of resources. The human species only has one earth and with good conservation, waste management practices, humans can help create cultures that are sustainable for ourselves and future generations.
The world without trees, grass, flowers, animals, or any type of living eco system leaves a dead and lonely looking place. The Earth no longer possess its beautiful scenery, instead it is a waist land with dirt and piled high with garbage. Even though all of our senses are not able to interact with films we do receive a strong idea of how the pictured distopia would smell. WALL-E also finds a small growing plant and treasures it with his life. The rest of the film revolves around his efforts to retrieve the plant once he has lost it and brings back a piece of nature to the Earth.
The first critique presented by Professor Humphreys was centered on corporate America and the results of consumer culture. In the movie, the over consumption leads to massive amounts of garbage and as a result, everyone is forced to leave. The Earth is demoted to a garbage world and Wall-e, a "Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class" (Wall-e) robot, is left to clean up the world. The post-apocalyptic state of the world is blamed on capitalism and BuyNLarge, because a revolution was needed but did not happen in time.
The world of Wall-E is filled with garbage as a result of mass consumerism which could have been prevented through the precautionary principle. As the human population grows, more plastic and materials are going to be used, filling up landfills to their maximum capacity, leaving the only option to fill natural environments with pollution and waste products. Furthermore, Wall-E demonstrates the terrifying truth about the growth of the human population with no room left for organic life to thrive and the start of businesses distracting humans from the aesthetic justification. In addition, as the human population grows, Wall-E demonstrates how humans are going to depend on the resources around them without tending and caring after them. For
Furthermore, the pictures above are another proof that WALL-E and Star Wars are alike. In picture 12, it is perceived that the humans were able to live in the Axiom. They could do usual activities like eating and