Disney-Pixar's Wall-E Reaction

Disney-Pixar’s Wall-E is a complex story for an animated, children’s film. Released in 2008, just a few months after the first generation IPhone hit the market, it paints a startling picture of our possible future. Although considered a science-fiction comedy, it serves more as warning of what may become of our technology-driven, consumer-based society. The movie opens to an abandoned, trash-ridden Earth over 800 years in the future. The landscape is piled with garbage and a solitary robot, Wall-E, is all that remains, with only his little cockroach friend for company. He works all day, compacting humanity’s discarded rubbish into cubes while squirreling away the keepsakes he finds interesting and watching old Fred Astaire films. One day, Wall-E discovers a plant growing and transplants it into an old boot to add to his collection. Meanwhile, the human population lives on a spaceship, having fled their wasted planet and their overwhelming abundance of garbage 700 years prior. Periodically, robots are dispatched from the ship to Earth to check for possibilities that life can be sustained there again. This is how Wall-E meets Eve. Eve’s technology is highly advanced
Morbidly obese and lounging in moving recliners, humans no longer do anything for themselves and instead rely on robots to take care of their every need. People are so engrossed in the screens in front of them that not only are they unaware of their surroundings but they also have no interaction with one another that isn’t digital. This dependence on technology, along with gross consumerism and environmental decay, is a major theme of this film. Humans zip along, too fat to be mobile, completely submerged in their virtual worlds. Their communication exists strictly on a screen through Skype and text, with their conversations flowing unnaturally, as though neither party has any interest in hearing what the other has to