Wall-E | Why Trans-humanism SUCKS 

Use the promo code: STORYTELLERS on ridge.com/STORYTELLERS to get 10% off your purchase! Thanks for watching, everyone! I love Wall-E, I think it's one of, if not the best Pixar film to date. Hoping this video essay about the symbolic meaning of the movie can provide some clarity and direction in these crazy times we live in. Peace! - Thomas

There's something about Wall-E as a film that just hits all the right spots. From its impeccable visual storytelling to its influences including 2001: A Space Odyssey, golden-era Hollywood romance films to even Adam & Eve, I genuinely believe it's not just one of the greatest animations, but one of the greatest films ever made. But that's just my opinion

I totally missed the whole biblical references in Wall-E. This is one of the best analysis I've seen on a film.

WALL-E is an example of what Disney Pixar is capable of, they really stopped trying nowadays..

Im not sure you understand what trans-humanism is. Its the transcendence of the human organism by physical artificial means. Post-humanism is the transcendence of biology altogether. Perhaps a better title would have been consumerism, as you seem to be confusing the two concepts

Wall-E is one of my favorite Pixar movies and I really enjoy how insightful this video essay is.

I've threatened to write a book about Wall-E for YEARS. Now I don't have to ;)

UPDATE: It has come to my attention that the masculine and feminine roles in the movie are a bit confused. Although Wall-E is male and Eve is female, and their physical characteristics line up as well, their actions are a bit muddled. Eve's coming down from above like a spirit is more masculine symbolism, and Wall-E's 'earthliness' and curiosity are actually more symbolically feminine traits. There are some other examples, but the point is that the symbolism is a bit inverted here and there. A movie like Moonrise Kingdom (2011) does get this distinction right. My bad!

I'm not religious, nor am I even spiritual but I found this video extremely fascinating. The message/lesson shared in this video and in the movie I think is one that should be taken to heart. Taking responsibility for your own agency, standing on your own two feet and coming together is a great one and I think it's something more people need to hear.

Sometimes when i finished watching Wall-E it make me depressed because there no other movies that are similar to this. I guessed that why i liked it so much.

"Published 27 seconds ago" Nice

WALL-E is the best thing to come out of Pixar, and that's a hill, I'll die on!

Dang, I was not expecting to get emotional over the symbolic closeness to the biblical gospel of sacrifice and redemption through Christ. Good find! So beautiful.

Or, just hear me out on this it's a old Pixar movie about two robots falling in love with each other whilst also at the same time bringing humans back to Earth

Well this is indeed an interesting take on the film. I would have never connected to religion but well done make a completing analysis of the film. Although I am skeptical of some of the points you made, like the mispronunciation of manual, I more likely it’s was for a cheap gag, regardless a interesting presentation.

A really eerie detail is that inevery portrait of the captains, the evil machine gets closer and closer. I forgot how genius this movie is.

I find it quite frightening to think that this imaginary dystopian future has some real relation in our society. Obesity is becoming a poetic pandemic. Many have pushed fat acceptance, and though that may not sound inherently bad--if anything, sympathetic to overweight people--such a philosophy could turn upright humans into immoble blobs as we see in Walle, and more realistically seen in shows like My 600lbs Life. Currently, over thirty percent of the American population is obese--around seven percent is severely obese--this number is only going climbing. It has even been estimated that around 2030 or so, that half of the American population will be obese. So though this is most definitely controversial and will undoubtedly offend some, understand that many live an unhealthy lifestyle along with the lie that there is nothing wrong with it. Walle is a movie that exaggerates what is happening today with many food conglomerates and current obesity issues, for the distant future however, I wouldn't be surprised if it unfolded in a similar way.

What I love about your channel is that you handle multiple topics and genres, even classic animated movies.

I watched this film more times than I can count as a kid, and I'm so glad I did

I think you nailed it! I couldn’t find any dissonance. It’s interesting how people who can’t see the patterns and connections dismiss it as “reading too much into it”. It’s as if there is a limitation of meaning in the use of colour, shot composition, etc. Even if it was not meant by the creator, it can’t be dismissed as meaningless. Many times even the creator is not aware of the full extent of their creation. Think of a time when you said/did something trivial but later on someone shares how it had a great impact on them. No doubt, well done Thomas!

This is my absolute favorite of your videos thus far. Thank you for continuing to make them!

Thanks for making this video. These times are just confusing, I haven't seen Wall-E since its release and watching this analysis now as an adult gave me a whole new context to understand. I hope this video gets recommended by the algorythm in the future because it speaks a message people need to hear right now

i never thought i would see wall-e here i havent watched the video so i cant tell anything about it but i watched that movie religiously i still have the cd and still sometimes open it to laugh at it idk why but tears did came off from my ears when i saw the title

@Storytellers What’s the original quote you paraphrased at the end (by CS Lewis)? It’s lovely but I haven’t found find it myself. I’m interested in the color philosophies of Magic: the Gathering, and that quote is practically the thesis of green!

Nice content! Would love to see an analysis of Nocturnal Animals or stay by marc foster 💕

Boss this is too good. Can i use some of your analysis for an instagram post?

my favorite part of this video is when he's scrolling through reviews of the wallet and the very first one is "Just OK"

I think Wall-e is one of the most beautiful movies ever made and this video hit all the nails on the head. Thank you for your comprehensive time analyzing the story of Wall-e and linking it so perfectly with real Truth. Literature, Art, and Storytelling are highly underrated crafts in this day and age. They have more power than we think.

Just subscribed! I watched a few vids and just a question, are you dutch?

I think wall-e is meant to say that technology isn't good or bad, it is simply a tool, a mirror of humanity. Greedy people are bound to use technology for their own gain, and selfless people use it to make life better, for example.

I love the idea of our creation of technology living on past us. I think it’s so beautiful that we created something with the potential to be larger than ourselves. Life goes on and the same story is told no matter the characters.

I want to apologise if this sounds mean. Just making comparisons to religious imagery is not deep. Not to say these don't have anything interesting say, but simply making comparisons to them is, at least for me, not enough for an analysis. You end up explaining metaphors with other metaphors, at the points where you don't you actually end up saying something. If you actually would explain how and why you think there is a connection, instead of assuming the meaning of the biblical references is obvious, this video would be a lot stronger and clearer. One example , though not specificaly religious, is your use of the "masculine" and "feminine" Spirit. There are so many assumptions and in this concept alone, and you just seem assume its a given that masculine represents the builder and feminine a vessel for life(im simplifying). Only that feminine and masculine are symbols for much more abstract ideas, ideas you depict as obvious and not worthy of questioning, and because of that it is unclear why you think this masculine/feminine thing is so important, and seems like a far fetched comparison. One thing I found quite interesting was the comparison of EVE with the white dove. This kinda worked for me, but your explanation was again kind of surface level. Both bring back plants, but what they actually are is symbols for hope and life, hope because we know there is land/plants, and the life part kind of comes out of that hope. These biblical storys work for a reason. Exploring those reasons is far more interesting than drawing surface level comparisons, it also helps with noticing some biases you might have, because we all have those. Don't tell us what is, but why it is. I hope I didn't just talk down to you, I get a little to emotionally invested in things like this, because I think they're important.

Loved this. So good, keep the content coming please

The masculine qualities of wall-e's character totally went over my head

It is insane that this only has 12k views!

Jonathan Pageau sent me. Great video!

I can't believe I never picked up on the manual-auto switch on the steering wheel as representing the choice between following the (operations) manual or the auto(pilot) until this video

The only reason why the earth didn’t lose its capacity for life is the ocean which we had never seen, it hasn’t dried out, but rather adapted to the trash, broke it down, ate it even, and found a way to breath air into the earth and had plants rise from the waters once again. Life found a way.

Wall-E is probably by far my most favorite Pixar movie.

What else is left to say but, “Bravo.”

Aluminum

Storytellers saving our father from the belly of the whale, one video at a time.

Your essays make me cry. Thanks man :)

Brilliant Truth ! Thank You. Great channel !

I loved the movie and even as someone who looks out for this stuff, the charm of the movie pulled me into its fiction so well that I didn't notice any of this. Awesome analysis.

The biblical allegories make it all the appropriate that Auto looks like an inverted pentagram (originally a pagan symbol representing "flesh", the upward-pointed pentagram representing "spirit"). There's a lot of "as above, so below" going on in this movie, but it's depicted from a "we must RESIST that system" perspective. Rightly so, of course. Andrew Stanton talks about it in the commentary, but he phrases it different (and better). Anyway, watch 'WALL-E' back to back with Tron, THX-1138, and Fritz Lang's Metropolis.

TBH, I always disliked Wall-E. This analysis may have changed my opinion. Perhaps I didn't think about it enough. Good video!

The music man, it gets me in the feelings.

That all a very intresting way to read into things... got to say as a pagan not a Christian be any means though I did see some connections to the biblical stuff and in a way the scale of the story- it would have to touch on the godly side of things and how we had came so high while at the same time of falling so low with how people had became since leaving earth. I like the way it's up to the masculine energy and feminine energy working together to bring further the future but the story and is much more then that it's in much more of an inspirational sense of just how WALL-E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) was made only to clean the trash of an abandoned planet, he was meant to have brothers yet they all slowly gave out only our stroy's WALL-E remained for he had the foresight to save parts for when he needed them. It can be seen more as a story of just how the fallen and down troted can raise to inspire and heal much then his intended directive.

Huh, so everything really is about sex and God. On a more serious note, I enjoyed this video. WallE and Ratatouille are the greatest Pixar films in my opinion, Ratatouille for it's expression of love for creativity and self actualization. I also noticed that Toy Story 1 and 2 have interesting existentialist themes, that being the inevitably of children growing up and abandoning their toys (death/ending of relationships), but the toys deciding that it's better to enjoy the time they have and make their owner happy while they can, but I haven't seen anyone really address these.

This is an interesting take. I didn't see a biblical reference, but I am sure your can find many religious stories(/myths) in many movies. I also didn't see masculinity and feminity in the story of Wall-e. However, this take was beautiful and shows how a great story can deliver several message why still showing beginning, middle and an end.

So how does any of this tie in to transhumanism?

Is it “aluminium” or aluminum?

I'd never thought of that view, but your biblical interpretation is deeply interesting.

Brooooo what a great analysis

Ehm, you might have gone a bit overboard with the allegories in this one. Fascinating essay, thoroughly entertaining, but with a degree in theology, several of your referances to christian symbolism are quite specualtive. Kind of feels like you, rightfully so, saw a connection to christian themes and just ran with it. I still had a good time though! Looking forward to the next one.

I mean the official reason for Eve’s name is pretty much the dead giveaway lol

Wall-E wants Supposed to sort the objects into categories wall-E malfunctions which is the only reason that he is the final one to survive because he categorise spare parts and was able to repair himself the other units didn’t malfunction and simply perform the task of compacting and stacking Until they inevitably break down

The captain is a metaphor for Noah, Eve is the pigeon Noah send to find out if the rain has stopped, AUTO for devil, the passengers are Noah’s family, the plant is the olive plant, the Axiom Noah’s ark, and Wall-E probably God, I guess?

great video

Great video analysis of the best Pixar film! You've put into words many of the things I felt when I watched this. This movie is more than just an environmental message film, it's a very pro-humanist movie that suggests the best ways for humans to move forward is not to remove all hardship and struggle, but rather to embrace and find meaning in it.

Great video, too many commercials

Fantastic video

If anyone wants to watch another interesting review of Wall-E from a different perspective, check out a guy by the name of Endeavour. Really good stuff.

Great film that says a lot, although I wouldn't agree with a lot of the far reaching statements you've made

Make a video like this on SPACE BROTHERS! ❤️

I need to point out that the humans aren't fat just because they're in a place where all their needs are met by technology. Though that's certainly part of it, it's explained in the movie itself that their bone density decreases over time the longer they're in space, which is true of real human astronauts which is why they don't stay for too long. Decreased bone density could make physical exercise literally impossible or too dangerous, I believe. In the clips you show we see how their bones got smaller, that's the scene where they explain the bone density issue I believe. I'm sure the large amounts of processed foods they eat play a role as well, we don't know what their diet is exactly, but it looks like it might be a SAD, standard American diet, which is definitely helping to cause obesity in real life, since around 80-90% of weight is about the food you eat not your exercise habits. Genetics also play a big role, and the movie hints at humans starting to evolve differently I think, because of how they live, though evolution usually isn't that extreme that quickly, though in some cases we can observe changes over shorter periods of time so it may be possible. My point is just that, all these factors play a role, and they're all technically true in real life, so I think it's important to mention them, but I get that that's not really what this video was about. Just thought I'd mention it.

Dude. This one was so good.

I thought it was a movie about PC vs MAC...

I’m not sure this is really transhumanism. Transhumanism has to do with modifying yourself.

God bless you Storytellers! So true about black mirror haha

I think you don't really understand what TRANSHUMANISM is, you are thinking of CONSUMERISM where consuming is the most important aspect of life and what you have is basically everything and who you are doesn't really matter (not in the your economic situation or beliefs or whatever, but YOU yourself doesn't matter, it does not matter your personality or goals. Just how much you consume)

You're videos are beautiful

Im not crying; you're crying! ? (So on and so forth) Legit though, this is one of those rare films that attains the rank of timeless masterpiece.

I never even noticed those dates underneath the pictures of the captains. How damn good must their medical technology be if someone as overweight as Captain O'Brien, the previous captain, can 'serve' as captain for 128 years? It's not even significantly less than the 143 years that the much healthier first captain served.

Industrial society and its future

Yes. This. All of this.

Not sure if all those biblical references were intentional, but it certainly works.

Y viendo desde otro lado, no les irira mejor siguiendo estando en la nave? parecia que todo iba bien, tenian una vida digna, tal vez obesos pero felizes y nunca se habla de crimen, odio o caos. Al regresar a la tierra terminan por volver a los viejos habitos, donde las voluntades chocaran y habra luchas por quien tendra la razon.

I don't quite think the title fits, as Wall-E isn't really about trans-humanism. That said, it was still an interesting interpretation and analysis of the movie. Gave me quite some food for thought, as many of the things went over my head, but do make sense.

Interesting, but to be honest... I liked Wall-e better when not reading it as a movie about how great heterosexuality is. lol.

absolutely love this movie!

Clap clap clap. I didn't expect a biblical analysis of WALL-E but dang. Color me impressed.

Creativity end on Wall E

What a Masterpiece

the lgbtq community has been real quiet

This is similar to the dune lore with the butlarian jihad

Anybody else think that walle was heavily inspired by fallout? Buynlarge=vault tec?

Space-x

Cee marshall?

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Finally some good representation of america-

Just because an essay is writen and read in a serious tone doesn’t mean it’s good. How this many people can listen to this spewing of random metaphors and think it was well thought baffles me. Really? Wall-E “empregnates” eve with a plant? Thats what we are choosing to read from this movie? 😑

It's not transhumanism that necessarily causes people to be weak, simple, baby-like, whatever. But it's just a preference for comfort (over growth) and a lack of openness. There's nothing in transhumanism an sich that makes people weak, unless you have a very essentialist view of what a human is.

To technology! The cause of, and the solution to, all of life's problems

I think l had a dream about watching this video... at the time l, understandably, thought it was pretty wierd..

Good and evil have not changed since days of yore. So Beowulf lifted the curse from Herot and as the son of the almighty brought us back to eternal light so to the smallest of robotic creatures shall redeem the world a new as robotic cops walk on water and humans teach machine to be more human and the destroyer terminator shall remind us to cry once He comes again, now and forever amen,

Impregnating robots....im done

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Geez, never realized Wall-E was so sexual