Wall-E Movie Review

WALL-E was set in a time where the earth was a barren wasteland, because of the huge amount of garbage that we people made. There were no more inhabitants, and the people of the earth all lived in a gigantic spaceship designed to take care of all the people. Earth was no longer livable, so they had to stay there until it was safe to go back.

WALL-E, or Waste Allocation Load Lifter - Earth Class, was a robot designed to organize waste so that it would not clutter around. For me, that’s what its objective is. WALL-E was just doing his tasks normally, until a huge spaceship arrives, leaving a more advanced robot, named EVE,or Extraterrestrial Vegetation Evaluator, on earth to search for evidence that earth was inhabitable again. WALL-E fell in love with this robot and followed her until the same spaceship that left there there took her again. The spaceship brought them to the AXIOM, a spaceship where humans now lived. The programming of the ship almost prevented them from coming back to earth, because there was a top secret directive that they were not to come back to earth because it was inhabitable. But because of the captain’s willingness to come back, and with WALL-E and EVE’s help, eventually, they made it back to earth.

I was afraid that our planet might really come to a point where we all had to go to outer space because earth wasn’t livable. We humans are taking the Earth for granted. As we can see in the movie, there was so much waste, pollution, whatever you may call it, on earth, that when you look at earth from outerspace, the land wasn’t green, but was brown. The atmosphere was all brown, because of the clutter of unused and broken satellites. We all could blame this to too much capitalism and too much commercialism. People want to get rich, so they make ways to satisfy people’s needs, not knowing that what they are doing affect the environment. They do this just for the sake of money.

We humans should know our limits. Just like with oil consumption. The ratio of us using oil as fuel is not equal to the amount available to us. In time, there will be no fossil fuel for us because we are using it in a much faster rate than the rate that we get it from the earth. I just pray that in time, we develop ways to utilize alternative energy sources more efficiently like solar energy, natural gas, and other types of renewable energy, so we can cope up with the rate that we are using fossil fuels.

Technology has a good effect to us, as long as we are using in the right way, and not abusing it...or rather not “over-apply” it. We humans have to know that we have limits, and Mother Nature is “someone” that we shouldn’t just take for granted. She’s someone that’s hard to replace when lost.