My son and I went to see Wall-E

[coyotemama]

This was a fabulous movie.  Not only was the story funny and touching, it also had some great messages as well.  The opening of the movie offers a very bleak outlook on our future showing how our obsessions for eating and buying large has all but destroyed Earth.  The only inhabitants left is a little robot who's job is to compact trash and a cockroach.  Wall-E obviously isn't like the other robots of his kind and has developed a consciousness over the past 700 years that he has been left alone. While the first 10 minutes of the movie don't have any dialogue, what has happened to Earth becomes very clear and we get to know Wall-E as more than just a trash compacter. 

Once the action moves on to outer space and where the humans have gone the message of the dangers of consumerism becomes even more clear when we see the state that human beings have fallen into after 700 years away from Earth.  It really is a sad and scary view of what could happen if we don't take a long, hard look at our lifestyle.  But while there is a gloomy perspective of what could happen, Wall-E. EVE, and the ship's captain give us hope at the same time.  We are not doomed to a future destroyed by consumerism, but we can make a difference...providing we are willing to put in the work to make it happen.

[Eclipse]

Jul. 2, 2008 at 10:25 PM

This movie was the first theater movie my son saw (we saw it on Sunday). You pretty much said everything about the movie that I would have said hehe. My husband and I LOVED it. It is kind of scary that the last couple of futuristic movies I have seen all show the earth over-run by garbage and the human population has become consumed by uh consumerism (Idiocracy for example). Anyway, just my add-in, which really didn't add much to your own post.