MOVIE REVIEW:

Nio Russel M. Candelaria

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 SYNOPSIS
A Dystopia in the Future

Approximately seven hundred years in the future, the Earth is over-run with garbage and devoid
of plant and animal life, the consequence of years of environmental degradation and
thoughtless consumerism. The surviving humans are living on the spaceship Axiom after
vacating Earth centuries earlier. Axiom is operated by a large corporation called Buy N Large,
whose BnL logo appears even on the artificial sun visible from the ship's main concourse. The
original plan was for humans to live in outer space for 5 years while cleaning robots ("WALL-Es"
invented by Professor Simon) prepared Earth for recolonization. However, after seven hundred
years, only one WALL-E (voice: Ben Burtt) remains.

WALL-E spends his days compacting debris into solid blocks and building structures with them.
He also collects some of the more interesting artifacts and keeps them in the garage he shares
with a cockroach, his only friend. At night he watches Hello Dolly on VHS and dreams of having
a hand to hold. Most of his finds are spare parts and electronics but one day he discovers a
lonely plant. Not sure what it is, but recognizing that it needs soil and care, he picks it up and
puts it in a dirt-filled old shoe.

The next day, an enormous spaceship lands and deposits another robot, EVE (Extraterrestrial
Vegetation Evaluator, voice: Elissa Knight). WALL-E is immediately smitten and hopes to hold
her hand, but EVE is quick to use her plasma cannon, which can blast a hole through anything.
EVE flies around Earth looking for vegetation but becomes distraught upon not finding any.
WALL-E is finally able to approach her and takes her back to his garage where he shows her
his collection of human artifacts. She still resists holding his hand, however, so he shows her
the plant he found. This activates her prime directive: she takes the plant into a special
containment capsule within her body, sends a signal to the mother ship, and goes into
hibernation mode. Confused, WALL-E tries to make her safe and comfortable. He shelters her
from thunderstorms and takes her to a park where he can watch the sunset next to her.

Several days later, the mother ship returns and collects EVE. WALL-E hitches a ride on the
ship, which returns to the Axiom several light years away from Earth. EVE and WALL-E are
examined in the landing bay. EVE, still in hibernation mode, is taken away to the ship's
commander. WALL-E pursues her, followed by M-O (voice: Ben Burtt), a cleaning robot who is
intent on scrubbing the filthy WALL-E to remove foreign contaminants (i.e. dirt or earth). On the
way, WALL-E sees humans for the first time. Obese and largely unable to move on their own,
they are carted around the Axiom in hover chairs with video screens that allow them to
communicate with one another and see a variety of advertisements for drinkable food products.
When WALL-E accidentally knocks one of the humans, John (voice: John Ratzenberger), off his
hover chair, WALL-E helps the man back into the chair and introduces himself. Confused but
grateful, John introduces himself in return.
REFLECTION ABUSE on ENVIRONMENT
THE FILM STARTS WITH A ROBOT NAMED WALL-E AND HE HAS BEEN ASSIGNED TO CLEAN Up EARTH

FROM ALL THE WASTE THAT THE HUMANS LEFT BEHIND. IT SHOWS HIM COMING OUT OF AN ABANDON
TRUCK THAT IS HIS HOUSE AND ITS FULL OF DIFFERENT HUMAN TRASH AND HE DONT KNOW WHAT ARE
THEY, HE CONSIDERS THEM AS TREASURES. AS HE IS DOING HIS DUTIES HE SAW A RED LIGHT AND HE

FOLLOW IT, HE HEARS AND SAW ANOTHER SHIp LAND ABOVE HIM HE WAS SO AFRAID AND THAT MADE

HIM DIG TO HIDE. HE SAW THAT THE SHIp DROpS OFF ANOTHER ROBOT NAMED EVE. EVE IS Programmed
TO FIND ANY LIVING THINGS AND BRING IT BACK TO THE SHIp WHERE THE HUMANS ARE LIVING SO THAT

THE CApTAIN IN THAT SHIp IF ITS TIME TO GO BACK TO EARTH.

WALL-E IS CURIOS ABOUT EVE SO HE ALWAYS STALK EVE AND WOULD LIKE TO GET BETTER LOOK AT

HER AND EVENTUALLY HE ENDS Up FALLING INLOVE WITH HER. WHEN EVE AND WALL-E GOES TO THE

SHIp WHERE HUMANS LIVE, THEY FIND THAT THEY ARE FAT, LAZY, AND ALL WEARING RED BECAUSE

THEY ARE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF TECHNOLOGY AND BIENG TILD WHAT IS THE NEW STYLE AND WHAT

THEY SHOULD EAT. WHEN EVE AND WALL-E GOES TO THE CApTAIN TO SHOW HIM THE Plant that wall-e
FOUND ON EARTH. THE AUTOpILOT TRIES TO THROW THE Plant AWAY BECAUSE HE DOES NOT WANT THE
HUMANS TO RETURN TO EARTH, HE LIKES HOW HE IS IN CONTROL OF THEM AND HE DOES NOT WANT TO
CHANGE.

THE ENVIRONMENTAL MESSAGE ON WHAT HAppENS OVER TIME WHEN WE DO NOT TAKE CARE OF OUR

Planet. IT MAKES GOING GREEN A NATURAL Part OF EVERYDAY LIFE AND SHOWS SOCIETY THAT
RECYCLING AND THROWING AWAY THE TRASH IS IMpORTANT. RECYCLING SHOULD BE MADE AWARE TO

EVERYONE SO THAT THEY CAN SEE THE Problems THAT IT CAN CAUSE TO SOCIETY IF NOT Practice AT
ALL. RECYCLING IS ALSO IMpORTANT BECAUSE IT HELpS pEOpLE, SAVES ENERGY, SAVES THE EARTH,
AND HELpS MITIGATE GLOBAL WARMING, REDUCES Pollution AND WASTE Products IN LANDHILLS, AND
HELpS SAVE MONEY.

I REALIZED THAT FROM WATCHING THE MOVIE THERE ARE TIMES THAT WE DEpEND ON TTECHNOLOGY A LOT. WE ALL HAVE

CELLpHONES, COMpUTERS, GAME CONSOLOES, AND TELEVISIONS, JUST TO NAME A FEW I LEARNED THAT

WE DO LISTEN TO WHAT ADVERTISEMENTS TELL US ARE THE GREATEST NEW ITEMS TO HAVE AND MOST

OF US GO OUT AND BUY THEM RIGHT AWAY. IT SHOWS THAT IF WE DO NOT TAKE TIME TO JUST STOp

AND REMEMBER THE DAYS BEFORE TECHNOLOGY CAME ALONG THIS COULD HappEN TO ALL OF US.