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["Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>]

Gene; I saw Wall-E. It was entertaining. I didin't see much 'message', it 
was a continuation of the direction people are taking, so it was too close 
to reality to have a 'message' for me. Also Wall-E's antics didn't have much 
to do with the 'message', and overshadowed it.

Warning...this might give away some of the plot if you haven't seen it. It's 
about an Earth that people have junked up to the point where they couldn't 
live on it, so they took to space, living in what amounted to a luxury 
cruise liner. People have gotten so fat and lazy that they ride in 
hover-chairs all day; if they fall out, they need robots to help them get 
back in. They come back to earth and are all excited about the prospect of 
farming and doing for themselves.

I would have liked to see what happened once they discover that "doing for 
yourself" is hard work.. We all know people who launch themselves into 
planting a garden, then abandon it when it becomes work...can you imagine 
humans 'working' for subsistence after 700 years of being waited on? I'd 
love to think people really have that 'go for it' spirit, but I've seen too 
many who would sit and die rather than do for themselves.

Lynn Wigglesworth
Tioga County, PA

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gene GeRue" <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2008 8:58 AM
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Wall-E


>
> On Jul 8, 2008, at 7:54 AM, Lisa K.V. Perry wrote:
>
>>>
>>>> On Jul 8, 2008, at 6:47 AM, Gene GeRue wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Has anyone seen the new move, Wall-E? What is your reaction?
>>>
>>
>> We went to a matinee show and enjoyed it. The collective "we" was my
>> almost
>> 13 year old son, my 18 year old son and myself (almost 46), so it
>> pleased a
>> range of ages. I'd heard a glowing review the day before we went on
>> NPR, so
>> I tried to not have high expectations, which can be a problem with
>> movies,
>> but it was good nevertheless. I
>
> "Good" is good but non-descriptive. Good moviemaking skills evident,
> and/or good plot, writing? Do you agree that it is a message movie?
>
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