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Spoiler Alert… <\/strong>Jessica discusses the movie in full. This post was originally published<\/a> on Sunday, June 29, 2008.<\/em><\/p>\n

As I waited in line on opening night on Friday to see Wall-E<\/em><\/a>, I thought it would be something of a robotic version of Nemo<\/em>.\u00a0 Having loved Nemo<\/em>, I was excited to detach from my work-week stress load and calmly watch the movie.<\/p>\n

Little did I know I was in for one of the most moving, gorgeous, and dare I say \u201cimportant\u201d movie experiences I have had for a long, long while.\u00a0 This movie is a blatant and powerful indictment of our environmental destruction, and it is also a completely entertaining and warm love story. I humbly encourage everyone to see it.<\/p>\n

**While this will be a glowing review, please scroll down to read my two complaints about the film as well.<\/p>\n

Wall-E is the last remaining trash-collecting robot left on an abandoned planet Earth. He roams the smoggy, trash-covered landscape of our destroyed planet, crushing refuse and hanging out with his only friend, a plucky cockroach.\u00a0 But Wall-E has a video of Hello Dolly that he watches on endless loop, and he longs for something more:\u00a0 singing, dancing, and inter-personal (or inter-machine) contact.\u00a0 In short, he is love-sick.<\/p>\n

Where have all the humans gone? We learn that they were forced to flee their dying planet over 700 years ago in a huge space-craft called The Axiom.\u00a0 On the ship they have become obese, immobile blob-beings who can only sit in their spaceship deck chairs and consume what is shown to them on their personal video monitors.\u00a0 The scenes on the Axiom are scarily reminiscent of present-day Las Vegas: the over-fed humans are detached from their daily cares and are free to sit on their backsides, consume, and be constantly entertained.<\/p>\n

I won\u2019t spoil the plot for you, but let\u2019s just say that a beguiling robot named Eve comes from the Axiom down to Earth in search of life forms.\u00a0 She and Wall-E meet and indeed find a little sprout of a plant growing in an old boot.\u00a0 Life blooms on Earth, love blooms for Wall-E and Eve, and great changes befall the humans quietly sipping their smoothies on the Axiom.<\/p>\n

But I do have two beefs with Wall-E: <\/strong><\/p>\n