Most animated movies created by Disney mostly target a younger audience that contain some type of subtle lesson that encourages them to think outside the box. These types of movies help introduce complex themes that can help facilitate further understanding at a younger age, these topics have helped kickstart ideas within the field of science. Furthermore revisiting the movie at this current time can reveal certain aspects of the film that couldn’t be revealed in the past, therefore I am nominating this movie because it is just a basic children’s movie that discusses real-world problems that haven’t been addressed to this very day. After watching Wall-E will you make you question the environmental procedures used in order to maintain the world around us.
The movie is set 784 years into the future where the majority of the world is reduced to an oversize wastepool. Given the task to clear up the mess left behind by human-kind, take a tour around the basics of environmental care. Further into the movie Wall-E comes across a lone seedling desert of waste, which introduces an AI created by the humans living in an isolated system among the stars to track environmental changes within earth. With the help of these characters, people are repopulating the earth and learning to nurture future vegetation. The movie illustrates the idea of human interaction with the environment and reliance on environmentalism, given the task to emphasize on the messages of cleaning up and preserving ecosystems.
Applied Plant Ecology Winter 2020 