Wall.E ---A Film Promoting Love, Plants, and Giving Up Junk

As many people now know, Wall.E is a trash-collecting robot who finds love in an extremely unattractive environment, our own Planet Earth in the year 2700. The Pixar flick is touching, clever, and a tad too long. The film opens with little Wall.E pursuing his workaday life in the rubble of a trash-filled, people-free Earth. The lone "live" creature there is a resilient cockroach who reminds older (nay, ancient) viewers of the fabled Jiminy Cricket, though the cucaracha has no lines.

Long story short, Wall.E's life begins to change when a probe robot released from a spaceship arrives on Earth and finds a wispy green plant that Wall.E has stashed away with his belongings. The arrival of the plant signals the return of life to Earth and galvanizes the fat, immobilized, junk-food swilling cartoon humans on the Mother Ship into action. Chases and antics ensue, mostly among the robots, because the humans can't even toddle.

Love conquers all, of course, and agriculture is reborn. Fade to credits.

Don't miss the credits! They are riveting, as they present the history of art, animated version. In my view, the film should have ended, and then a screen saying Do Not Leave Yet should have popped up. Because the art finale is superlative.

Wall.E is a not so subtle indictment of Fat America, people.(  BNL, the corporate entity that had taken over Earth in the film, stands for Big N Large.) We were sitting in the so-called Handicapped seats and watched the credits through the mostly weight-challenged people streaming out, many of them dragging or carrying kids, popcorn containers, and drinks.

The food spilled on the carpets in America's Metroplex's could probably feed the people of Bhutan for a day.

ps The cockroach lives inside the one food item on Earth that has not decomposed---a Twinkie-type offering.

CORRECTION, JULY 5---The corporate monolith is Buy 'N Large not Big 'N Large.

Comments

[John]

"The food spilled on the carpets in America's Metroplex's could probably feed the people of Bhutan for a day." This, Auntie, is a hell of a quote! Sad but true.

[Foodie]

Mostly popcorn...