WALL-E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) is a 2008 animated film directed by Andrew Stanton (Finding Nemo), a collaboration between Walt Disney and Pixar. The first Pixar film to be nominated for six Academy Awards, it won for Best Animated Feature. You may recognize Sigourney Weaver's voice as the all-powerful computer.
Set 700 years in the future, it opens amidst tall skyscrapers; but on closer examination the skyscrapers are made of neatly compacted garbage bales piled on top of each other. Cleaning up the planet has fallen on the shoulders of WALL-E, a solar powered robot and the last of his kind. We see no humans on an Earth desolated by pollution his only companion is a perky cockroach.
Though you may not know it, some consider WALL-E to be one of the finest spiritual teachers in cinematic history. So say Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat of Spirituality and Practice in their list of WALL-E's attributes (see http://www.spiritualityandpractice.com/films/films/php?id=18217):
Set 700 years in the future, it opens amidst tall skyscrapers; but on closer examination the skyscrapers are made of neatly compacted garbage bales piled on top of each other. Cleaning up the planet has fallen on the shoulders of WALL-E, a solar powered robot and the last of his kind. We see no humans on an Earth desolated by pollution his only companion is a perky cockroach.
Though you may not know it, some consider WALL-E to be one of the finest spiritual teachers in cinematic history. So say Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat of Spirituality and Practice in their list of WALL-E's attributes (see http://www.spiritualityandpractice.com/films/films/php?id=18217):
- No task is too boring or repetitive that it cannot be handled with care.
- Wonder is a spiritual quality which makes everything interesting.
- Everyone needs a love song that lifts the spirit and provides solace to the soul.
- Falling in love is a risk that always leads to adventure and new possibilities.
- Loving another makes us sensitive to the needs of others.
- Picking up litter and trash is, in the big picture, one of the kindest and revolutionary things we can do to preserve the planet.
- Inspiring others to do the right thing is one of the marks of a true hero.
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