How "Wall-E" Reveals Our Changing Feelings Toward Tech

Published: June 6, 2024, 7:05 a.m.

b'Critic Emily St. James and Crooked\\u2019s Halle Kiefer join Max to talk about \\u201cWALL-E.\\u201d The 2008 Pixar film depicts a future in which humans are so addicted to their screens that it takes a robot mutiny led by a mobile trash compactor to get them to log off. Why did the filmmakers opt for a trashpocalypse? How problematic is the movie\\u2019s portrayal of fatness? Why wasn\\u2019t there cancel culture aboard the spaceship? Find out in our last installment of Offline Movie Club (for now!).'