Blog Assignment #5 - Dystopia At It's Finest

It's interesting that we were given a clip from Wall-E to write this blog about. Mostly because it is one of my favorite Dystopias. For those who aren't familiar with what a Dystopia is; it is the opposite of a Utopian society, in which something is seriously wrong with the society at large and it is undesirable for people to live in.

Some of the most recent famous Dystopian works (both literary and film) are The Hunger Games, The Host and Divergent. But Dystopias  aren't limited to Young Adult fiction. No it can be found in almost anything that is Science Fiction oriented.

Disney/Pixar's Wall-E is one of the best ones that I have seen. Not just because it's Disney, but because it shows a society that nobody should want to live in, but we seem to be headed. toward. That's right, I said headed toward. Why?


Imagine a world were nobody walks anywhere, and everything we desire is convenient. It's not hard to picture because or world is already like that in so many ways. We have motorized vehicles that take us everywhere we go. On practically every corner, we an find fast food, drive up banking, pharmacies, libraries, and more. We can work and go to school from the comfort of our home, and having our groceries and food delivered to us. We video chat, share pictures via social networking, text and talk via our phones. With technology, we could almost live 100% of our life in a chair in our home, and not worry about anything.

That is a life pretty close to the life that the people in Wall-E lived. The only difference was that they were travelling in chairs. Sure they got out and about, but they never had to leave the chair. They wanted to change clothes, there was a button for that. They were ready to eat, there was a bot for that. They had fallen, and couldn't get up, a bot was on the way for that. Makes you think of the statement, "There's an App for that". doesn't it?

They had no cares in the world. Heck, when Wall-E snapped Mary out of her conversation, she seems lost. Like she had no clue where she was, and what was going on. Even the children were immobile. It makes for a unhealthy communal situation. And at the rate that technology is taking us, we are headed that way.

Although, I would rather be in Wall-E's dystopia, than have to watch kids killing each other, like in the Hunger Games.