WALL-E Lost Soul
In theaters. Pixar Films in coordination with Disney June 2008STATS: WALL-E is the only surviving, Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class robot on Earth in the year 2805. His objective; to clean up an Earth left uninhabitable by the humans who abandoned it. WALL-E’s main function is to gather garbage compressing it into a cube, then stacking it into enormous piles. While alone for over 700 years, he develops a personality, learning about emotions from a Hello Dolly video. He grows a small surviving plant in a boot. With those growing emotions, he also grows lonely, since the inhabitants of the planet fled the pollution.THE LOOK: WALL-E is short, square, with claw like hands, and big adorable eyes, one can not resist.LEADING LADY: EVE (Extraterrestrial Vegetation Evaluator) was sent from the planet Axiom, to find plant life on Earth. WALL-E observes EVE at first, out of uncertainty. Soon he finds he’s curious about her. His curiosity soon turns into love. EVE is sleek, fast and deadly. But WALL-E can’t resist her, nor her him. After numerous misunderstandings, they hold hands, (something he learned from the video) he also shows her his plant in a boot. She stores the plant inside her compartment area, and shuts down. WALL-E goes into chivalry mode, ready to protect her at any cost. Eventually EVE’s spaceship returns to get her, at which time WALL-E stows-away on the ship to follow EVE.BOTTOM LINE: This story is not only a love story between robots, but it is a story about what can happen to humans who insist on living in gluttony and excess. The humans of the story, have spent so much time in artificial gravity, they have grown lazy and morbidly obese. They literately rely on robots for everything. As much as this is an animated feature, (and a brilliant one) it tells a lot of truths about the direction mankind is headed. The planet earth is essentially dead from pollution, and the human race has escaped into space, where they’ve continued their abuse of the themselves, and everything around them, eliminating almost the very need to exist.Question of the Day: Do you think we’re headed in that direction? Or do you have faith we’ll see the light before it’s too late?
July 3rd, 2008
Lee 
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July 3rd, 2008 at 11:30 am
I’m not sure. I love the benefits of technology. The Internet, I-Pods etc, but it does seem like we sacrifice human connection. That’s my opposition to the Kindle. Not EVERYTHING should be electronic. I want to hold a great book. I want it on my shelf to look at so it prompts me to remember great passages. I also think the whole reliance of texting by young people is scary–they don’t even call each other anymore. They just use short hand text messages to talk. One person told me they can have their phone in their sweatshirt pocket and text without even looking at the key bird. This must be how people felt when the fine art of letter writing was reduced to the phrase “snail mail” and replaced by emailing…. Great topic, Lee. V
July 3rd, 2008 at 12:02 pm
I have to agree. I love the smell of books and the way the feel when you turn a page. Texting hasn’t done anything for young people or their ability to write or spell. My son showed me a video on u-tube that was about someone who was trying communicate with a young person by mail, that only new how to text spell. As funny as it was, it was also a very powerful message as to where we are going. I still write letters occasionally, on nice paper. When my niece was in Iraq, I wrote her letters. She loved getting them. Letter writing is a dying art.
July 3rd, 2008 at 8:14 pm
I admit, I have the voice of doom and gloom sometimes. There are days I believe the planet will get tired of us and kick our butts out into outer space or do us in with a very nasty virus.
I can’t wait to see Wall-E.
July 3rd, 2008 at 10:25 pm
I haven’t been to the movies in a long time. I have a satellite so I can see a movie anytime. This technical age is so disturbing to me. I took my step-grandson to the pool the other day and he spent the whole trip texting. I had to speak to him a couple of times to get directions to where he wanted to go. He just turned 16 and spends all his time in his room on his cell. There is no family interaction with young people now. I hear this from a lot of my friends. Things need to change and soon or what you are saying about this movie will become a sad reality. Have a great 4th, stay safe and hugs to all.
July 3rd, 2008 at 10:45 pm
I’ve experienced this with my older grandchildren. The rule now in my house, when you visit me, no texting. And I stick by it. I make them interact with me and my husband. They complain, but my son, makes them obey the rules. No cells, no texting at my house. And no ands, ifs or buts about it. So when we have family bbq’s like tomorrow, they’ll be no cell phones allowed. Not even he adults, its strickly family time.