Consumerism Definition

Thematic Analysis Wall-E Movie
When the earth is polluted strictly, people have to look for a new place or planet to reside. On the way looking for a new planet people temporarily stay in a big spacecraft, which is equipped with human necessities such as robots, washing machines, entertainment machines, etc. One scene that represents consumerism is that seven hundred years before people only intended on migrating for five years and then return. However, because of the boundless number of wastage and garbage collected on Earth, the plan of resettle in five years was postponed. Another scene that represents consumerism is that people are not told what to do; they do not have a duty to accomplish. All the passengers really have to do is sit in their own chair with all the adequate machines that serve them. Even the simplest job of brushing their teeth is done by a machine. Through this movie, overweight people can be seen as a message to warn of the unscrupulousness to society which has many people holds a diet soda in one hand while holding a hotdog in the other. This society also does not care about the large number of people who pollute the world every day by loitering and turning Earth into a sandy desert.
Through the movie, we can describe one day life of people like this: In the morning, they wake up, eat breakfast, go to the entertainment park by the automatic chairs and enjoy playing games with others on those chairs. They play a whole day until the artificial sun turns off, they come back home and sleep. We can see there is nothing to do with consumerism on this movie. They are so free, comfortable and the result is that they become fat and fat like balls so that they cannot stand on their foot.
According to the movie, we can draw the underlying thesis of this movie is that “consumerism makes people become useless”.
Through this movie, we cannot say it is adequate to represent real –life human experiences. Nowadays, although there are also many...