A warning about unbridled consumption wrapped up in a children’s tale, Pixar’s film wasn’t intended as a political statement.
Vudu, Every weekend, we pick a movie you can stream that dovetails with current events.
What you can count on is a weekend watch that sheds new light on the week that was.
The movie of the week for June 3 to 9 is Wall-E (2008), which is available to digitally rent on Amazon YouTube , and Google Play.
(What happened to the poorer inhabitants of Earth is left out of the film, probably to make it suitable for children.).
There are no familiar slogans or symbols easily identified with a politicized notion of the environment anywhere in Wall-E.
Futuristic science fiction is at its best when it makes us take a hard look at our own world. »