How does the movie Wall-E represent some Dominant Ideologies in popular culture today? Wall-E is about a little robot in the future who cleans up trash. He is important because there is so much trash in the future from all of the humans. When this movie came out in 2008, it made a big impact on society because of it's address to world pollution. It is important to discuss this movie now because it enforces the Dominant Ideology of a greener ecosystem. It shows that the way people are living now is unhealthy for the environment, and it opens our eyes to the possibility of using up our own resources and destroying the natural state of this planet.
Wall-E is about the journey of a little robot, Wall-E, who falls in robot love with a robot lady friend, Eve. When Wall-E follows Eve back to her spaceship (where the humans live) he sees that the humans are really fat and lazy and have lost all of their Dominant Ideologies. His mission now is to bring them back to earth and restore natural order on their home planet. Here is a powerful scene from Wall-E that shows what life is like on the spaceship.
So why is this important? This movie is important because of the Ideologies it represents. It shows the importance of respect for our environment, especially in thebeginning when they show all of the trash on Earth. The movie also glorifies respect for the planet and for life, by showing how artificial life can eliminate any respectful way of living. On the spaceship, the humans don't have any control over their life; they don't communicate with each other except through machines, and they don't even exercise. Some people thing that this is a very important issue to address because they see these trends becoming more and more common in today's society. With increasing morbid obesity, and the rise of social networking, our lifestyles are becoming more and more like those of the people on the spaceship. We need someone like Wall-E to bring us back to reality by reminding us of the importance of living.
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It is true that or society is becoming like this because we have face book, twitter, tumbler, and there are probably some more out there. Before we know it there is going to be like a lot more of them and some other way to communicate and were going to end up like the humans on that ship.
That's funny(interesting). I have seen the same movie and I love it. However when I watch it, I get a completely different perspective. Instead of seeing the trash as a problem, I see the main part of the movie focusing around the strange and intimate relations between a dirty old 700 year old male robot and a young beautiful pure white female robot. To me the message is that love can come from anywhere, and you will do anything to sustain it. This little dirty robot called Wall-E is chasing this robot called EVE. At first Wall-E is not known to EVE. However as the movie goes on, there sense of love and connection toward each other grows as the movie goes on. Towards the end of the movie, Wall-E is close to death, and Eve is trying everything she can to save him. I will not reveal more about the movie, however I will say this. It goes much farther then just being about to much trash. It is one of the most emotional movies ever made. Suprisingly this movie conveys more through thoughts, feelings, actions, and raw emotions than through words and speech. It is a truly magnificent movie to watch.
Another point that no one has brought up yet is that as a society we are trekking deeper and deeper into the internet world (cyberspace?) and engaging in real human interaction less and less. I wont be long before we stop interacting at all, as it shows in the movie by everyone being in their chairs with the screens and strongly discouraged to leave and interact with one another.
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