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Movie: WALL-E

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A repost.

Yesterday, my kids and I watched Wall-E. It’s not as much fun as I had with the Panda, but this movie definitely leaves an infinite lesson that we all must, and must, inculcate in our minds and in our young generations.

The story of Wall-E evolves around an outdated robot left on earth to clean up the messed up Earth. For the longest time of doing his rounds, he came to a point of having the curiosity and the capability to feel and understand the things he sees around him. If I were to compare him to a human being, he’s like a toddler who’s curious in his surroundings, and very innocent with it. He has with him this insect, more like a pest, who goes with him in his daily rounds.

Then came Eva, or Eve, a hi-tech robot from a spaceship sent to Earth to seek, scan and deliver any living organism (especially plants for that matter) that might exist on Earth. So the story began with Wall-E’s journey to find a hand to hold (which he found in Eve) and Eve, to finally having a compassion for him.

But the plot does not end there, it also evolves around finding the plant and Eve sending the said living thing to the ship (where other human beings – transferred ones – are waiting to return to Earth). Okay, this is getting too long.

The point of the film is that human beings became too dependent with technology that they forgot to live. And that continuous destruction of Mother Earth may eventually lead to what was portrayed as being the Earth shown in the film. That technology, no matter how intelligent it can be, will always be technology. Meaning, it would depend, and will always depend, on what was encoded in the software, can be pushed with a button and is not the answer to all problems.

Long ago, in a newspaper article, I read something about technology. That once upon a time, when we were still kids, how we love to play games under the moonlight, playing patintero, piko, sipa, luksong-tinik (high jump), and all other games that uses our ability to interact, reason, tactics and body to fight.

Now, when you see most children, they prefer playing online games, using only their minds, and the quickness of their hands for fighting and such. Traditional games that we adults enjoyed when we were younger were gone.

Last but not the least, I remember in the same article, and I agree with it wholeheartedly that, (as much as I can remember, not verbatim), ‘Technology is here to ease our lives, not replace it‘.

And in the movie Wall-E, the captain shouted: ‘I do not want to survive. I want to live.‘ Don’t we all?


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