Wall-E

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     The movie sets onearth which is piled with trash. We meet a stained robot calledWall-E, who works as a cleaner, picking up trash. It goes through thepiles of trash and collects different things and brings it back tohis garage where his only friend, a cockroach is waiting. One day hefinds a plant and later on meets Eve, a glossy white robot sent by ahuge ship to look for any living thing. Wall-E falls in love with Evebut when Wall-E shows Eve the plant, Eve takes it in its body anddeactivates. Wall-E follows Eve as the huge ship returns and we findout that human beings had been living in the spaceship. People havebecome obese and the adventure begins as Wall-E and Eve work to bringthe plant to Captain McCrea despite the oppositions of the otherrobots. The film ends with the people coming back to earth.
     What struck me mostwas the appearance and life style of the human beings in the Axiom(the spaceship). Everyone was obese and moving around in theirhovering chairs which entertained them and fed them. This may berevealing what is to come to our world someday or atleast in thewealthy countries, especially the US where obesity is a rapidlyincreasing issue. While Wall-E follows Eve as it is being escorted tothe captain's chamber, we see a fat guy, John, falling off hishovering chair and unable to come back on it. It was a humorousmoment but this inability to physically move becomes a huge problemlater on in the movie. Auto, the evil robot, must be prevented andCaptin McCrea dramatically shuts it off barely standing up. I feltthat this movie had a message or in an extreme sense, a warning,towards what might happen if we do not control ourselves from overconsuming.     The origin of evilin this movie is the trashing of the earth. Since the earth wasfilled with trash and no longer able to produce and sustain life,human beings were forced to leave. Forced to consume unhealthy foodswhich require no vegetation and to live on chairs inorder to minimizethe ocupation of space, people become obese. This seems to be whereour world is heading towards. Lifein the empire is full of pollution and destruction of the environmentfor selfish desires, as we saw in the short 10 minute video on thecorporations and their evil acts of damaging not only terrirory inthe US but all around the world. Another issue of the film are theevil robots. As the advancement of techonology has been expolsive,people of the empire have idolatized and have placed their relianceon machines. But this film reveals that this lifestyle of the empireis dangerous.     Thesaviour figure of the movie is Wall-E. Without its work and findings,humans would have not been able to return to earth. But it is ironicthat the plain, old and rusty robot is the heroe figure. This is goesalong with the up-side-down Kingdom of God where the weak, small andthe unattractive are used.

1. What message is Wall-E trying to communicate to us and what lessons should we learn from it?
2. What can we do about the rising issues related to pollution, consumerism and obesity?