I don't know if the message of the movie is really anti-technology. It's a movie that makes you feel for a couple of robots... I think it's more a warning tale about not letting ourselves overwhelmed by technology, or using it wrong. Technology shouldn't replace thinking or interactions, or exercise. But the movie doesn't say it's wrong to have created robots, or a giant spaceship. It just says, maybe don't let an AI take control of that spaceship.
There have been a couple of movies that annoyed me with their "technology is bad" motto, but Wall-E isn't one of them. I don't know, it never seemed that black and white to me.
As for robots with feelings, it's totally plausible that humans are not aware of the depth of the feelings and thoughts the robots have. There's a point when you create artificial intelligence where it grows beyond what you planned. I guess that's the Root vs. Finch conception dilemna.
(Also, you may be a little overthinking a movie that is primarily a movie for children... ;) )
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Date: 2016-08-05 06:36 pm (UTC)I think it's more a warning tale about not letting ourselves overwhelmed by technology, or using it wrong. Technology shouldn't replace thinking or interactions, or exercise. But the movie doesn't say it's wrong to have created robots, or a giant spaceship. It just says, maybe don't let an AI take control of that spaceship.
There have been a couple of movies that annoyed me with their "technology is bad" motto, but Wall-E isn't one of them. I don't know, it never seemed that black and white to me.
As for robots with feelings, it's totally plausible that humans are not aware of the depth of the feelings and thoughts the robots have. There's a point when you create artificial intelligence where it grows beyond what you planned. I guess that's the Root vs. Finch conception dilemna.
(Also, you may be a little overthinking a movie that is primarily a movie for children... ;) )