Opera Dress

the movie WALL-E us pretty anti capitalist if you think about it

global scale corporates destroy the sustainability of earth for personal gain and said company pulling out a pointless project to promise the people a better future, the future being herding them like sheep, maintaining absolute control over them and blinding them of the potential lives they could all live.

EVE, a robot created in this system, expected to follow orders, revolts against the long gone authority assigned order for a better future alongside WALL-E who always lived outside of this system and a bunch of other robots who don't know how to act accordingly, to comply, to listen.

some things that stuck with me was in the ship, there's countless advertisements and billboards cheerfully telling people what to do, what's the newest, basically what orders to follow. and people complied because they're too far gone to think for themselves what's right and what's wrong. the scene where all billboards changed to advertise those blue bodysuits, everyone immediately changed into them, not even trying to think about it first.

another scene, they locked up robots that seemed to not fit in, to not follow orders, to act differently. they were all locked up in their respective "jail cells" and even then, if they acted harshly, they'd get detained. they seemed perfectly happy and content with the way they were but since it caused "disturbances" to others and disrupted public order, they were locked up. however, those same robots were the ones who would later help humanity get back on their feet and settle back on earth, literally.

corporate greed and mass consumerism took over their lives and eventually it destroyed their home. yet the same companies, the same authorities still rule over them after their destruction all the way in space, hypnotizing the public and making them all into mindless puppets.

a lot of things in this movie can be incorporated into real life.

the idea of "you have to work to survive" and MANY other things that we basically assume has to be the way it is, actually, is not necessary.

the residents of the ship are born, living their lives on those hovering chairs and a screen over their faces all their lives and eventually they pass away. we are born, we're thrown into working environments and we eventually pass away.

those who don't comply, those who are against this life, or those who cannot comply with this life (such as leftists, disabled people and neurodivergent people) are seen as crazy, rebellious, lazy, even a stupid conspiracy theorist but are they really?

huge companies destroy the land, the waters, our wildlife and plants to make a quick buck and we have to comply and consume items produced by them because small businesses are receding and mass production is more affordable to the working class.

honestly, it's really insane how this movie is seen as a cute little children's show when it depicts such heavy and radical topics. the movie isn't about cute robots saving mankind and falling in love, it's about revolution.

it's impressive that they got such a strong message through with symbolism in a children's movie honestly.

WALL-E 2008 | dir. Andrew Stanton