Through years of Disney and Pixar creations, they heve continued to produce many inspirational movies, including all of the Disney Princess Movies, the entire Toy Story series, The Lion King, The Incredibles, and Up. Within these movies, Disney and Pixar have also managed to slip deeper meanings into their movies that have a bit more meaning than just a smiling princess; what they added was a dystopian world within some of their movies. The specific one that I’m thinking of is Pixar’s WALL-E.
In the world of dystopia fiction, there are many novels, plays, movies, and even games that fall into this category. WALL-E falls perfectly into this category due to the nature of the ship, of how the people on the ship lived, and how their information was controlled so that they only knew what the people in charge wanted them to know.
The movie WALL-E takes place first on a dead Earth where there is no sort of living thing including plants, animals, or even people, all there was was a little robot named WALL-E who was sent to help clean up the rubble and collect anything that could mean that life was back to Earth. After WALL-E found something and another robot, EVA, came and brought it back to a ship, WALL-E jumped on board and entered into the dystopian world within the ship.
Everyone from Earth was moved onto these ships so that they could be safe from all of the hazards that were on Earth. After being on the ships for so long, the controllers on the ships realized that there were things that they could do on this ship that they couldn’t do on Earth. The created laid-back chairs that moved on their own so that people didn’t have to put effort into going somewhere if they needed to and if they needed to be somewhere, the chairs would take care of it, no problem. They also created robots so that if anything was needed, the robots could tend to their every need. The controllers also kept all troubling thoughts and the issues and information of Earth to themselves so as to not worry or misguide the people on the ship into thinking or even remembering where they were from. The chairs provided entertainment through TV, telephones, and computers, and the robots provided food, so essentially this world was perfect. All worries were gone and all needs were met.
This was a very enjoyable movie, though very sad at points. Being that they didn’t even realize that they could go home and that this information was being held from them was really bothersome. The people on the ship had no choice in the matter, though because they had been there so long, that kind if life was all they knew, so it wasn’t until they realized that there was a world beyond their chair screens that they started making their own decisions of what to do.
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