Film Theory: Is Wall-E Satan?

In 2008, Pixar made a movie that would make the world fall in love with a brave little trash compactor his name

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hello internet welcome to

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a show that reminds you to put on your Sunday clothes when you're feeling down no feels lonely like yesterday, when I was talking about Pixar's 2008 classic Wall-e, oh wait, it was yesterday, yes, a few weeks ago, while I was writing a

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that further proves how everyone aboard the Axiom spaceship unknowingly participate in cannibalism, I learned that apparently I'm not the only person who sees the sinister side of this touching love story of robots in space back in 2017, a Reddit user named vexellius had a wild idea: what if Wally the robot was

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and the whole space opera was a version of the biblical story of the fall of humanity in the garden of Eden, now I know what you're thinking, it sounds crazy right, I've been doing this for a long time and I have a general idea of ​​what makes a plausible theory from bat guano crazy. one most of the time, at least seriously, where could someone start to have an idea like this?

Consider this: The biblical story of the Garden of Eden basically boils down to a woman named Eve who was tricked by Satan into handing over the apple of enlightenment. for man, this results in humanity unlocking divine knowledge as a sort of DLC patch. God is angry because everyone is suddenly ashamed of her fig-leaf attire and throws him out of paradise, condemning humanity to a life of misery and hard labor. Quote from Genesis 3 18. Cursed is. the earth because of you in pain you will eat of it all the days of your life, it will produce thorns and thistles for you and you will eat the plants of the field with the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from there you were taken by dust you are and two dust you will return yes a real feel good story but now let's look at the story of Wall-e which boils down to a robot named Eva who receives a seedling from

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-e a seedling that unlocks knowledge in humanity these are called farms humans put seeds in the ground and grow food like pizza, the computer defines the dance that knowledge makes humans abandon their carefree journey through the cosmos with an unlimited cup and pastry recharges to return to Earth, where not only are you forced to get up from your hover chairs and use your legs for literally the first time in your lives, but you are also shocked by the fact that this planet is a bit of Restorative Farming, you Children, you are going to grow all kinds of plants, vegetables, pizza plants, once again, humanity has given up paradise for hard work, farming in the harsh wastelands of the earth and it all begins with the actions of a little robot named Wally who fills Satan. role in giving Eve the seed of enlightenment and all this without even mentioning Wally's love of musicals, his favorite hello doll, just saying, wake up here, sheep, a long story summed up in 529 words, Vexellius describes his masterpiece , a theory that received wide coverage on the Internet.

But does the theory hold up today? We're getting biblical and psychological to answer the age-old question: Wall-e satan? What is paradise? Was humanity lured out of the Eden spaceship by a lovestruck little yellow robot? All that and more. in today's episode we will see if vexellius is right, ladies and gentlemen, I think you all know what this means, it's time for Morty, leave your theories in the comments below, I will choose my favorites in the next episode of Morty, now that break this theory. below are just a few points of evidence that cannot be denied

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y the movie has a character named eve the creation story also has a character named eve both bring back a plant that unlocks knowledge and humanity, which makes us question our place in the world and ultimately leaving a seemingly idyllic life in paradise, whether in the Garden of Eden or aboard the Axiom, I mean, it doesn't get any clearer than that, so the theory is confirmed, so well, you almost see me who makes or breaks this theory.

It all comes down to one main question: is the axiom really a substitute for paradise? Sure, a lot of the little things surrounding this theory line up nicely, but the central question is whether humanity will ever really be in paradise in the first place and what I mean by this is whether the axiom of a cruise line or a spaceship is capable of meeting all the needs of humanity in the same way that the Garden of Eden is said to be paradise in the biblical story, so that then seems to be our best place to start the garden of eden was introduced in the book of genesis, the first book of the hebrew bible and the christian old testament, there are certainly many passing mentions of it elsewhere and obviously tons of artwork along the way, but in Overall we're going to try to stick to the description of the original materials, which surprisingly doesn't give you much to work with.

There are only 10 short verses describing the garden itself, four of them are dedicated to its rivers and zero of them talk about them. what it really was like or what it should be like everyday life in the garden, I mean let me show you that this is practically all you have to quote and from the soil that the lord god made grow each tree that is pleasing to the eye and good to eat , the tree of life was in the middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, blah, blah, blah, here is all that boring river thing and here is the rest, the lord god took the man and put it in the garden of Eden to work and keep it yada yada don't eat the apple stupid oh yeah and then there's the last verse where they run naked final quote and the man and his wife were naked and I'm not ashamed, that's all , that's what you don't have much to go on, so we're going to have to read between the lines here, basically what we can infer is what you'd expect after years of seeing this story told a bunch of times.

It is a beautiful garden where there is no shame, infinite food and pure innocence. God's big problem with the apple of enlightenment is that humanity is suddenly granted the knowledge of good and evil, implying that paradise is a place of blissful ignorance towards evil in the world. the axiom fits well, yes, people don't seem to need jobs, they get unlimited drink refills and are transported in fancy floating chairs that prevent them from having to walk, the temperature is always 72 degrees, they have no knowledge. whether it is really day or night and robots take care of their children as if they were gods, making every tree sprout that is pleasing to the eye and good for food, we have robots and screens capable of giving us what we want to see and eat, assuming, of course, that it's not ground up human meat as I've guessed in previous theories, it's essentially a world where your biggest day-to-day decision is whether you should hit the virtual golf course or order another hot dog that no one else can eat.

Has to worry. assemble IKEA furniture and can chat with their best friends while having their hair done by polite robots who are very complimentary. This seems to be living the dream, as there is presumably no poverty, no war, no stressful work schedules, no dangerous weather conditions to interrupt your virtual tennis game according to the commentary on the Wall-e DVD, director Andrew Stanton said that the people aboard the axiom after hundreds of years of being immobile have regressed into large babies with increasingly smaller arms and legs and ears that are not fully formed again. If paradise is truly defined as a state of perpetual innocence while supervised by an all-powerful being, then yes, being able to return to the state of a baby in your hoverchair while AI takes care of you is the literal definition of paradise as if all these parallels it was not enough to eat the apple is the event that introduces the idea of ​​death in the creation myth in genesis 2 17 god warns adam and eve quote but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you will not eat on the day you eat You Will Also Die Aboard The Axiom People Live Long Lives When we first meet Captain McCree, we glance at a wall of portraits of five people who served as captain long before him, each with an average tenure of around of 133 years, which implies that the people on board the ship live a long time adding the captain's terms for these five people and you get a whopping 666 years 666. wait, wait, let me do those calculations again 248 minus 2774 minus adding this and wear the one and you get six six six is ​​the sign of the beast the numbers of the devil I mean that's super weird I don't even know what to say about that but it's there it's there on the wall and it feels really intentional like if you didn't.

I didn't stumble upon that number randomly. Captain McCree's tenure could have started when the odds of him landing 666 years after the axiom journey began are just uh it's weird, maybe the animators put it in as a joke or maybe as a sign that this theory It's really true. right on the money 666 years after the journey begins mccree becomes captain and it is under his supervision that wall-e comes to cause the fall of humanity back to earth or maybe just maybe it means exactly the opposite the axiom isn't paradise it's actually him -double hockey stix for such a carefree life as the axiom seems to offer on the surface, if you look a little closer you start to see some cracks in their civilization, we hear the passengers say , look, I'm tired of having the same argument about and well, someone else mutters something about jealousy and let's not forget that when we first meet our main human, Mary, she's talking to her friend about this, we get hints that there's arguments due to jealousy, bad dates on the ship, which means that there are still problems here with the passengers too. aboard the axiom have been so absorbed in social media advertisements and consumerism that they have completely forgotten the joys of face to face interactions and touching the people on board the ship, they believe nothing, they do not appreciate what that have. dependence on technology has made them impatient and angry in all psychological research there are three things that have been shown time and time again to make people happy close personal relationships a challenging job or hobby and helping others through behavioral prosocial that's it, that's the secret to increasing your overall happiness meter and those are three things that are decidedly missing from the axiom and research has shown that the things that the axiom offers, like more things, don't move the needle at all , except very short temporary peaks and happiness. notice that in all the shots of people on board there are never shots of people smiling at them laughing there is no emotion on board except being numb in short the axiom is in heaven it is hell taking people away from their loved ones forcing them into a constant cycle of consumption anesthetizing them with a constant onslaught of screens so there are no hobbies or challenging activities plunging them into a self-centered wasteland even the garden of eden knew the dangers of being completely complacent in genesis 2 verse 15 we learned that god placed adam and eden to being able to take care of the gardens and trees, means that Adam was forced to do real work such as pruning and cultivating the land while in paradise.

Surely the axiom could have traps of paradise. Unlimited food. Perpetually sunny skies. and live a carefree lifestyle, but even if we eliminate the consumerist dystopia that is, that's not what humanity really wants, that's not what we need, that's not what science has shown psychologically makes us happy, We thrive on being challenged to have agency in our lives by learning by overcoming and doing that for the community of people around us, so what does all this mean for Walius Satan theory? Well I think it's cool, the parallels are absolutely there, even down to the diabolical 666 hidden in the captain's quarters, which must I admit is still really creepy Pixar, come to think of it, has anyone noticed that detail before?

Surely someone must have it. Someone didn't show up in my research. It was just when I was writing this theory. I'm like, wait 666, oh, that's weird, man and. If you define paradise like the Garden of Eden did, which is to be innocent and naive to the concerns of the world, then the axiom does come pretty close, so on that front I would say that the theory confirms that Wall-e is the serpent involuntary cause of the downfall of humanity, but the thing is, paradise is more than innocents and cupcake sprinkles. Paradise comes with an assumption of agentic happiness and the people on board the axiom are not happy, they are appeased, they are numb, they are distracted.

We are in an endless stasis that is not paradise, in fact, it is quite the opposite, looking at it from that perspective, Wall-e is the one that saves us fromthe double hockey sticks, so that would make Wall-e, uh, what Noah Moses Jesus. Yeah, that's probably it, isn't it? Wall-e is Jesus overturning merchants' card tables with his little hydraulic arms. I don't know how people feel about that. Anyway, here's the long and short of this morty. It's a great theory that is so absurd. As it sounds absolutely certain, I may nitpick here and there about perspectives and what qualifies or doesn't qualify as paradise, but in my book it's the closest to some of the strongest theories, so consider Wall-e to be a theorist of Satan's theory.

Vexela's approved theory ends by saying: It wouldn't be surprising if generations later people in Wally's universe began telling stories of a time when they lived in a place of eternal bliss until a tempter gave him a woman named Eve. a plant that led to humanity. Honestly, I could see that happening too, but they'll probably skip the part where they had to suck out the bodies of dead ship passengers as their main source of protein, but hey, that's just a theory, a movie theory and that's it.