Entry #3. Who or What the Hell is WALL-E?

Forgive me for being so apparently out of touch with the movie biz. I hope that my lack of knowledge about WALL-E has allowed my to view an excerpt I recently watched from the blockbuster movie, with open eyes and a fresh viewpoint. I watched this short clip seven times trying to get the point(s) of it. I picked up a little more of the satire as I watched each time. I thought it was very clever how the creators poked fun of today's society by placing our values and attitudes towards each other in a futuristic setting. It's much easier to laugh at ourselves in an animated, futuristic version, than it is to laugh at the reality of today. Very clever in deed. Most of the parallels were quite obvious. A lazy, obese society, because no one ever has to leave their chair, thanks to technology. I'm not quite sure how distracted driving can cause a roll over accident while sitting in a smart chair, but it was kind of cute. None of the characters in the cartoon ever seem to have the need, or want, to communicate with each other very much, other than electronically. I don't think that's too far fetched, since we're already seeing a shift in that direction. I got a chuckle out of how, much like today the characters allowed some form of media to dictate what type/color of clothes we should be wearing to be cool. Te part that I got the biggest laugh out of, was a little more subtle. It was the part where the students are getting brainwashed in the classroom while learning the alphabet. "A is for Axium, your home sweet home, B is for Buy N Large, your very best friend." How cool was that? The children of today have to wait until after school to get brainwashed by the television commercials. As indicated in my title, I never even heard of WALL-E before watching this short clip. Now I'm thinking that I might of missed out on something kind of neat. Maybe I'll even try to find the DVD and watch the movie in it's entirety. It's always fun to laugh at ourselves when we think that we are laughing at something else. In this case, it's futuristic cartoon characters, so it' OK to laugh. "L is for laughter, MY very best friend."