Walle Film Live Blog

Opening of the movie shows destruction everywhere. We can assume it was due to human effects on Earth but that is never explicitly stated.
The goal of the robots: "We'll clean up the mess when you're away." Takes the responsibility for how the Earth turned out and displaces it by giving humans a way out of their mess.
See ads promoting space living, in which it is relaxing and safer.
WALL-E enjoys watching the love videos, which humanizes him. While he is a robot he is able to feel these emotions which relates him to a human. If humans could have a bad effect on the earth like they did, does that mean WALL-E is able to impact the world as well or is he simply there to pick up trash?
His main purpose is to pick up trash, but he keeps some things. It is interesting to me that he keeps all of the non luxurious things as he throws the ring and does not care about the car keys.
Suddenly, a robotic spaceship programs another robot on Earth and leaves her there. EVE is introduced as a more updated version of WALL-E.
He truly acts like a human around her, as he gets all nervous around her and is silly. He tries to impress her but constantly embarrasses himself, a typical beginning to any movie love story.
The two characters are truly complete opposites. EVE is new, destructive, strong, sassy, whereas WALL-E is old, dirty, constructive, and soft.
Finally, WALL-E and EVE connect.
What is different about this movie in regards to gender is that WALL-E is hoping for EVE to love her, and actually follows her, instead of waiting. He goes with her to space, and the spaceship has to get through a layer of junk in the atmosphere, further showing the destruction on this planet.

The first time I tried to watch this movie I fell asleep. The beginning is incredibly slow. However, this time I stayed awake to see what happens when they go to space and I am so glad. The way humans are portrayed in this movie is unbelievable and I kind of love it. Humans are shown just sitting in chair zooming around and only looking at screens. They look at the screens and and talk to other people sitting in other chairs-possibly even right next to them. They are presented as so lazy and so oblivious that it is almost sad. One woman looks away from her screen and says "I didn't know we had a pool." This seems just like a continuation of their behavior on Earth, where you could argue humans are too caught up in technology and too lazy to do anything to actually save the planet.

The last random thing I will mention is that it is clever that WALL-E makes the same noise as a Mac when it is turned on. What does this suggest about Apple?