Film Analysis Of A Robot (Wall-E)

I remember the first time that I watched the film Wall-E. It was actually with my boyfriend a few years ago, and both of us were in excessive tears by the end of it. There’s something about that little robot that ultimately pulls at your heart strings and before you know it, you’ve developed sympathy and feelings for merely a piece of modern technology. The strongest part of this story, in my opinion is the protagonist, Wall-E, even though Wall-E only says a few words throughout the film, he is incredibly likeable. The film involves this little robot, who was created to clean up the mess on earth that humans had left behind, before they fled the planet to live comfortably in space. After hundreds of years, Wall-E becomes accustomed to his life …show more content…
Eve seems to resemble that of a modern piece of technology. When looking closer at Eve, I instantly thought of an Apple device, such as an iPhone or a tablet. Her voice sounds very similar to that of the popular iPhone’s Siri voice, and she is a more in your face robot compared to Wall-E, especially when we first meet her and she does not know who or what Wall-E is. Eve is also a more graceful robot, her movements allow her to float and to soar, while Wall-E is stuck on the ground rolling around on his clunky wheels. While watching this movie again just a few days ago, I noticed several things that I had failed to notice the first time I watched it. There are very distinct differences when it comes to the portrayal of humans and artificial intelligence technologies. Throughout my paper I will be writing about the many differences between humans and robots in the film, while also bringing up the idea that humans are associated in the film with a very disturbing past, and robots are associated with a hopeful future. I intend to tie in specific examples and aspects of these portrayals to support my …show more content…
Not only are these humans consuming media through their televisions, but they are consuming drinks, advertisements, gossip and other products. They seem to be easily led into trends, and easily controlled. There seems to be only one large corporation throughout the film, which is Buy and Large (B&L), this company controls what seems to be almost everything in the human’s controlled lives. Not only are these humans overweight, but they are extremely confined to the chairs in which they float around on. I found this aspect very interesting because the fact that these humans are all “fat” feeds into the stereotype of overweight people. “Fat” people are seen to be lazy, lacking willpower, morality and even intelligence in our society, and this is definitely feeds into the idea of mass consumerism depicted in Wall-E. They appear to also be disconnected from reality, with their computers and phones. While being dependent solely on the robots that help them around, feed them, and entertain them they are being lead down the path of dependency. These humans are portrayed in an even more awful light when you make the connection between the humans and the once-inhabited earth. It is quite obvious that these very people were the ones who polluted and destroyed the earth in the first place. With that being said, it is easy to make the connection between