Posted on 07/13/2008 6:24:04 AM PDT by shrinkermd
...I can understand where the conservatives are coming from, because liberal critics and pundits are treating "Wall-E" as a piece of G-rated schoolroom propaganda designed to drill into childish heads the duty to climb aboard the climate-alarmist, capitalist-bashing bandwagon. The most blatant example of this came from Frank Rich of the New York Times, who wrote, "At the end, [the kids in the audience] clapped their small hands. What they applauded was ... a gentle, if unmistakable, summons to remake the world before time runs out." Gaagh -- give me Dirty Harry any day. The irony of all this is that if "Wall-E" is didactic, what it has to teach is profoundly conservative. For starters, the film never even goes near the climate-crusading vocabulary of "global warming," "carbon footprints" or even "green," which used to mean "verdant and lovely" but now means "twisty fluorescent lightbulbs." The crime of the humans who vacate Earth isn't failure to drive a Prius but strewing detritus. Conservatives detest litterbugs and other parasites who expect others to clean up after them. "Wall-E" champions hard work, faithfulness to duty and the fact that even a dreary job like garbage-collecting can be meaningful and fulfilling.
...In its portrayal of the overweight slobs on the spaceship, "Wall-E" isn't denigrating consumerism but passive dependency. Junk-food-fueled obesity correlates inversely with socioeconomic status, and it's those on the low end who the liberal welfare state tries to scoop up as permanent clients. "Wall-E" is also pro-life. When Eve shuts down after retrieving a green plant from Earth (she's literally in a "persistent vegetative state"), Wall-E doesn't decide she has a "right to die" so he can get rid of her; he carts her around tenderly and decks her with some still-functioning Christmas lights he has retrieved from human disposables.
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Excellent movie. Sam’s sells the WALL-E robot toy for about $38.00 . Getting one. Hereafter, forever and whenever I observe a skin-tight fat person I will think of WALL-E. All to common a sight these days.
I thought it was great, too.
As far as the “messages”, there were several, some environmentalist slanted and some life slanted.
More than anything it was entertaining. I like how the robots had body language and personality. Sure, R2D2 had personality, but not like Wall E.
Cool movie.
However, you have to try really hard to find the film a source of liberal propaganda. I dislike when conservatives practice constant outrage over nothing, just as I do with liberals.
Nope, but I am saying making assumptions about human nature 800 years in the future is not prudent. To do so, requires an underpinning belief system that explains fat people, a trashed world and so forth and so on.
I don’t think you want to go there. There is no comparison between the “waste” my people left behind (which broke down fast/easy) and the waste caucasions produced, which doesn’t decompose for thousands of years.
We (Native Americans) were far more earth friendly than the caucasions who came in with their diseases, filth and waste. Prior to them arriving, we were just fine.
The issue is not waste but the complete depletion of resources which, frankly, was very common among many of the tribes (not all).
The myth that all Native American tribes treated the environment with great respect is as much a myth as that which states America is hell bent on destroying the environment.
I have not seen Wall-E yet but, come on better then the incredibles?
Sounds like liberals. Two examples: Californian exodus to Colorado, and Masshole exodus to New Hampshire.
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LOL. I never thought of that. Think of Disney in 800 years!
C'mon, it's as much a prediction of the future as Star Wars is a historical retelling of the past. It's intended as fiction, not as "An Inconvenient Truth: Part 2".
I saw Wall-E last night and really enjoyed it; but I didn't enjoy it nearly as much as The Incredibles.
This movie was a case of me liking it, my little brother and stepmother being ‘eh’, and my dad going ‘grrr’.
Oh well. You take from it what you will.
I loved the movie - kids loved the movie.
Good family fun - no “adult” humor like you see in Shek.
The “sin” of the humans was that they were litterbugs.
You could probably gather an anti-Walmart feeling from the film - but I didn’t see how global warming had anything to do with it.
The cartoon prior to the film was excellent.
My 5 year old was hysterical (from laughing)
If you’re writing about people living in the future you have to predict human nature at that time.
AMEN
PERSONS attempting to find a motive in this narra- tive will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.
BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR,
Per G.G., Chief of Ordnance.
Yes, but predicting what the future holds tells you what the author holds right now.
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