Wall E

For starters, I love Disney movies. I think that the company does an amazing job at portraying great messages that are still very enjoyable for children. Wall E is interesting though because considering how few silent films there are right now that are very popular is few. Yet somehow Wall E was able to capture an audience and bring us into the story without words. Part of me is flattered by the fact that we can still enjoy something without it being spelt out for us, and the other part of me applauds the creators for being so artful and making something for the whole family. There are toms of movies coming out now days with the fear of what our future will look like into a movie, and yet this one made you feel a sense of love.

I think that the point of this movie was to not give someone else a job that you should have done yourself. The humans didn’t want to take responsibility for their own actions from destroying their planet, instead, they gave the job to the sweet little robots. Through blaming others or not taking responsibility for what you need to fix things simply don’t get done and laziness takes over. I feel that our main fear for our future is that we will be taken over by robots and become so utterly lazy we hardly notice the people around us. This movie (very subtlety) sent the message of putting down your phone and interacting with each other. I think that this is a serious issue that we face. I can’t have a dinner with the tv turned on or someone one their phone as we wait. This movie challenges us to put it down. I love that about this movie; that people were happier interacting with each other, and that the humans were all able to agree that they needed to change something.

                The switched love story is also inspiring because it is primarily about a women taking care of a man. Which is odd for a children’s movie, but I think that they tried very hard to be a little bit different than any other movie. It was very futuristic in that sense.  And I liked that. I liked how different they tried being. The film hit a lot of key points that people need to look at; not relying on technology, stepping up when things need to change for the better no matter how much work they need to put into it, and love comes from all kinds of “classes”. I usually do not like the “futuristic” movies, but they do tend to have a strong message, and I really did like this one. And it doesn’t hurt that Wall E is super cute and lovable.

Social Network

I honestly feel like the Social Network is a bad movie. I don’t like the “creator” of Facebook and how pretentious he is. I hate that he sues his undeserving best friend, and it doesn’t make any sense that the rich guys still get the money from Mark. The fact that Zuckerberg wrote those awful things about his girlfriend or that the lawyer saw something in him is all beyond me. I had the hardest time relating to this movie, even though it is about a very common and understanding thing-Facebook. I just don’t get it, and, maybe that’s the beauty of the movie because I feel like I need to watch it again and again to truly understand what exactly was trying to be said.

I hated the way Mark was so utterly infatuated with Justin Timberlake based on the way Justin presented himself. Mark betrayed his friend because of this man. I could not stand the fact that Mark swooped under his friend’s feet and sold nearly all of his shares in the company. Who does that? And why? Jealousy makes people do awful things. That’s what Mark did to his friend and that also what the rich twins did to Mark. Jealously can create evil.

The Social Network was confusing for me in the way that it relates to identity.  I have been lost at the idea that the Social Network and Brave New World relate to each other in anyway. So to keep it simple I looked at the way the characters acted in the movie. They all created themselves in a certain way through social media. One chooses how others will view them based on the filtered versions of our profile pictures and the info we add to our bios. Everything we add to our web page is what creates us in this “unreal” version of a new world.  In the same way Brave New world created each person and left him or her in that stereotype. Everyone is categorized into the places they want to be.