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Just saw WALL•E, loved it. The main message isn't anti-tech or anti-futurism, it's anti-sitting-on-your-ass-ism...the ending makes it clear that the whole point of this was "Technology can fix everything, but only if we don't give up!"
In the end credits montage, we see a stylized series of images in various art styles (from cave painting through impressionism) of Earth being revived. From a dirtball barely able to sustain a cockroach and a weedy little plant, it goes to a nigh Eden with full biodiversity. And it's implied that this happened within the span of a few years, decades at most.
They had the technology to repair Earth, had it all along, but spent 700 years on an extended cruise because the president of Buy N Large believed that the planet couldn't be fixed and gave orders to HAL, er, AUTO to never let the ship come back.
Sure, there's a lot of heavy-handed anti-consumerism messaging along the way (when Fred Willard plays your corporate master guy, you know subtlety wasn't even in the early notes), and a lot of non-verbal railing against rigid routine and the surrender of initiative to The System. But unlike a lot of stories in which space colonists return to Earth, it's not anti-technology. Just anti-mental-laziness.
In the end credits montage, we see a stylized series of images in various art styles (from cave painting through impressionism) of Earth being revived. From a dirtball barely able to sustain a cockroach and a weedy little plant, it goes to a nigh Eden with full biodiversity. And it's implied that this happened within the span of a few years, decades at most.
They had the technology to repair Earth, had it all along, but spent 700 years on an extended cruise because the president of Buy N Large believed that the planet couldn't be fixed and gave orders to HAL, er, AUTO to never let the ship come back.
Sure, there's a lot of heavy-handed anti-consumerism messaging along the way (when Fred Willard plays your corporate master guy, you know subtlety wasn't even in the early notes), and a lot of non-verbal railing against rigid routine and the surrender of initiative to The System. But unlike a lot of stories in which space colonists return to Earth, it's not anti-technology. Just anti-mental-laziness.
From: (Anonymous)
It's not even anti-corporatism
--R.J.
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