Blog Entry #5: Wall-E

We'll begin with this scene. As represented by the Pixar movie Wall-E, this futuristic version of what look to be Facetime, is rather quite scary. As you see the technology in this movie is depicted as bad, in fact because these amazing hovering chairs, which is another form of technology, the human race has seem to become obese. With the little to none exercise that the people get, they seem to have gotten heavier. In fact when to guy on the right was telling Wall-E to get him another Buy-N-Large drink, he fell over and out of his chair, this caused him to become like a cockroach and struggle to fight his way back to his stomach; that was until Wall-E gave him a push, literally. (shown on bottom)

Another thing that we see depicted in this movie, is not being aware of our surroundings. In the movie it was the scene where Wall-E was hastily trying to find Eve. When he found her he came across a human, a woman named Mary. Mary was "factiming" her friend and Wall-e trying to get her attention accidently disconnected Mary from the screen, which by her facial expression seemed to be her first time ever realizing where she had been, the surprised look shows as if she had just realized where she's been.

Technology in the movie shows it as if it takes away from face-to-face human interaction, but most importantly it takes away from your surroundings, Mary had no idea where she was until Wall-E came and destroyed her little TV screen. This movie gave a good depiction of it.

The final analysis that i came up with this movie was a different kind of technology, and although we all wish it was real, sadly it's dealy for us. That's right i'm talking about the food. Wall-E shows us a different way to get our "hearty" meals. A self-automated company named Buy-N_Large (BNL) really speaks for itself. The human species eats as many times as they want in this movie, so that means the food must always be available, so you tell me, do you really think these people get up to go get food? The answer is no they do not. The BNL company have specialized cups, such as these

these cups are the ultimate hungry persons dream. When the people get hungry, they push little button either on their hover chair or on their screen, they select the food they want and presto! their food comes in a disgustingly convenient liquid where they slurp 'till they're hungry again.

The movie gave me a confused reaction, the reason being is that humans are actually becoming so lazy, they might actually invent this weird space blimp and live out their lives on hover chair.

For example, every time i go to wal-mart, i ALWAYS see the electric scooters being used, but not by the elderly or disabled. These Chairs are being used by people, fat people i should say, those that are morbidly obese. Even though i can clearly see them walking after check-out. 

So yes, i do happen to agree that the technology shown in this movie captures technology and human behavior in real life.