Monday, November 10, 2014

Wall-E

            The movie Wall-E has many underlining messages that the director uses. The first underling message is being kind to the environment. You don’t know what you have until its gone. The next message the director uses is to not be lazy, do for your self. If you let others take control of you, then you wont be happy.
            The movie shows that the earth is filled with garbage. Wall-E’s job is to clean up the earth. He makes skyscrapers and buildings out of the garbage that is on the earth. He ends up finding the only plant that is left on earth. This shows the audience that it is important to take care of the environment. Eva’s mission is to find life so that the humans can come back to earth. Which in the end of the film they do.

            The second message the director is trying to show the audiences is to not allow some one else to control you. The people on the spaceship have become fat and lazy. They never have to get up and move because the robots serve them food and drinks. They are always following a straight line. Even the robots follow a straight line. That’s why the cleaning robot freaked out because Wall-E didn’t follow the rules. He just wanted to stay with Eva. When Wall-E bumped the man off of his chair and disconnected the lady from her screen, it seemed like they had woken up for the first time. Towards the end of the movie they are the only two people actually enjoying themselves in the “pool”. The movie also refers to the movie 2001:A space odysseys because the Hal 9000 is similar to Auto in the movie. They both are in charge of the ship and both have secret classified missions from earth that the captain doesn’t know about.

2 comments:

  1. Hey Joe, what a wonderful experience to watch WALL-E an apocalyptic future world focused on an adorable child like robot in this animated film directed by Andrew Stanton. This film expresses a lot through visuals, with minor dialogue, the soundtrack and wide shot is enough alone to captivate the viewer.
    WALL-E being the main character locks paths with EVE within this movies plot. Both being robots the whole film revolves around these two with their relationship escalating as the film climaxes and resolves itself. Being a visual experience with limited dialogue cinematography becomes a large portion with guiding the story. Camera shots, music and sound effects steer this film. The first show being a huge wide shot from space closing in on WALL-E on earth. Visually capturing the setting and feeling it establishes. Approaching WALL-E this shot introduces the robot to the viewer and quickly expresses his intentions based upon his actions. WALL-E moving about messing around with his heaps of garbage, whether it be packing or moving displays his emotion well. The camera zooms are beautifully done to show the relationship build between WALL-E and EVE. Since no dialogue is present between the robots, there actions and expressions show the feeling natured in these machines. The camera zooms and angles help convey that meaning very well. As the film progresses humans are introduced but in an unusual twisted fashion. The world being to polluted humans left into space aboard giant cruisers. The message beneath the surface of the film shows the dependency humans have on technology. In modern world the use of technology is becoming much more apparent and even a necessity. In WALL-E humans are obese and unable to do much due to their inability to really do much. Ultimate laziness has corrupted human civilization to blobs attached to machines. The ability of the mind to create better and more advanced technology faulted humans instead of help them succeed. This idea is displayed about halfway until the end, where the humans realize there faults and begin a new more positive path due to WALL-E.


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