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    0 starsshiwani | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 11 2008 | movies, world, global warming
    Wall-E Hates Fat People - Slate Magazine

    Now I'm even more curious to see this movie...

    Quoted: Pixar's new animated feature Wall-E is more than a great movie. According to the critics, it's a trenchant social commentary. So what is this powerful and profound message? Wall-E tells us that if we don't change the way we live, we'll all get really fat and destroy the world.

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    • ms.kruse - Jul 11 2008

      I can't believe Daniel Engber got that impression of the movie. Very poor correlations. Wow.

    • kristen - Jul 11 2008

      I'm not sure he actually paid attention to the movie because they made a point of saying that the severe obesity was due to being in space ... the movie even cutely mentioned it as a "change in bone density". The world was polluted and destroyed BEFORE everyone left and became obese -- 700 years later.

    • ms.kruse - Jul 11 2008

      Exactly.

    • sudha - Jul 13 2008

      completely missed the point of the movie. clearly the movie is focused on overconsumption and all the problems that it causes but i think the fact that it's buying stuff and materialism that cause people to leave earth is the main message...

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    Michelangelo Antonioni, 94, Italian Director, Dies - New York Times

    Weird, Antonioni and Ingmar Bergman died on the same day.

    Quoted: The director’s chilly canticles of alienation were cornerstones of international filmmaking in the 1960s.