Film Theory: Wall-E's Unseen CANNIBALISM!

oh man the cupcake in a mug is delicious, Wally had the right idea with this one, how did I make it taste so good? Let's see, sugar, potassium benzoate, ah, disgusting, I'm not eating potassium benzoate, hello internet, welcome to

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, the show where it ruined. Your favorite childhood classics are my main directive and today in my sights is none other than Wall-e. Now I could be in the worst mood, like a hypothetical situation where you have to wait weeks for the damn cable company to fix your stupid Internet when you know the Internet is your job, so you pay people to just You sit and stare at your computers helplessly, and you think the cable company will come back and pay you for everything you lost? time and effort, no, meanwhile, people who watch your videos say: hey, where are your videos? moods, yes, I might be in one of those purely hypothetical moods, not based on real circumstances, but you know, the magic of pixar makes everything fade away and

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-e is my all-time favorite , you can keep your incredibles and Nemos, none of them can compete with the robots that learn to love and then watch Hello Dolly and then hold hands and oh, they just choke watching these clips from the movie, they moved on to the next scene, Ronnie moved on to the next scene and now they are. dancing through space oh I kid you not, I openly cry at three separate points in this movie, well at least I did now that I'm in the

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I no longer watch movies but study them and this time I watched Wall-e again. He wasn't crying for the love of robots. He was crying over the dark secret hidden in the bowels of the Starliner axiom. To give you a refresher, the axiom was supposed to be a safe haven for humanity going around a few times. the solar system while Wall-e cleaned up planet Earth and made it habitable once again, but when the events of Wall-e take place, they have actually disappeared for centuries longer than they initially intended, they mentioned it in the movie as if it wasn't like that. great deal and welcome to day 255 642 aboard the axiom oh hey i see the ship's log shows that today is our 700th anniversary of our five year cruise, well but that's going to cause some problems and one in particular, What are you eating cupcakes? in a cup, what is that?

Be careful what you ask because if you connect the dots throughout the movie you can clearly see what the people in the axiom are actually eating and spoiler alert, and what they are eating is not Matt Damon's poop chips . each other, that's right, your favorite movie about a cute little trash robot trying to save the world has hidden implications that humanity is so screwed up that people eat each other look, I'm not happy about that either, I wish This could be a theory about how Wally discovered the true meaning of Christmas, but there's simply no evidence of

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, although there are a lot of suspicious things in this movie that point strongly in that direction, if it's been a minute since you last watched to Wall-e, two things first, go see it. one last time before you start forever associating it with the consumption of human flesh and second, there are a few key plot points you'll want to keep in mind.

Wall-e is set well into the future in the year 2805, but the real action begins in 2105, when the Earth became too polluted to support human life. The proposed solution is for a so-called hypermarket to build giant spaceships to evacuate humans for five years while tiny robots clean up the mess and make the Earth great again. to the events of the movie and as I mentioned before, what was supposed to last five years has now lasted 700 and that brings us to what is a pretty obvious statement at this point, the axiom has to be without food trying to stretch five years of rations at 700 just aren't going to cut it when I go a week without grocery shopping, all I have left is open-faced peanut butter sandwiches and I'm trying to determine if I can drink barbecue sauce for my recommended daily calories, maybe they'll put more food on board, I hear your busy little fingers typing in the comments and yes, I'd say that's practically a guarantee, it's packing in additional standard operating practices for today's space travelers, for example, NASA, for an average seven-day flight, will have two extra days of food on boarding with them, but when it comes to the axiom, we're talking about 140 times the amount of food they would need for the planned 5-year excursion, 140 times even if we generally got wildly ambitious and stocked the axiom with, say, 10 years of food twice as long as the planned duration of the trip, people would still start going hungry hundreds of years before the events we see in the movie, plus it's not like people are rationing their meals, unlike Matt Damon on the surface of Mars, everyone doesn't know how much. food they have left, so the idea of ​​rationing to preserve it for the long term is not something that worries them and yet the food keeps coming, but it is also important to keep in mind that the food will be different from others.

Limited resources like fuel or water because there are easy ways for the axiom to harvest those things over the several centuries they are in space. In the special feature that captains the axiom, we learned two important details about the ship, one of which is the ship. of a nuclear-embedded alloy, the axiom is a second-generation type three general dynamics hull configuration made of a proprietary nuclear-embedded positronium alloy, which would seem to indicate that it is running on nuclear power, while the food supply will rapidly diminish After some years. much more for the money, for example, when fully reacted, one kilogram of uranium-235, the popular reaction agent, produces as much energy as 1,500 tons of coal, so a small amount of that substance will cover you for quite a long time and It's not like uranium is going to turn into mush like a week-old avocado;

The time it takes for half of a sample of uranium-235 to decay is more than 700 million years, so there is no need to worry about the expiration date of that sample of water leading the Axiom video also informs us that the ship is headed for the Kuiper belt and here is its destination, captain, the Kuiper belt, that enigmatic frontier of our solar system where fragments of our primordial protoplanetary disk still wait to be explored. This is a part of the space that is still created. whether or not it is in our own solar system, but it is beyond the planets and all the time we all think that the solar system ended after your very polite mother sent you nine pizzas, take that sixth grade science class,

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The Kuiper Belt is filled with frozen asteroid-sized chunks of various substances, including methane, ammonia, and, as you may have guessed, water, so it won't be hard to imagine that Axiom could collect some ice around it, but guess what you won't find in the rocks. Floating through the vacuum of space, cows grow other random foods, so technically it could take care of fuel and water, but you can't make food appear out of thin air or, after all, this is the future , so maybe they have developed a way to create food from nothing or at least that's what I initially thought until I looked a little closer, I mean food must come from somewhere, keep in mind we don't see There are no animals on the ship other than humans, unlike water, food is more complicated than just a bunch of hydrogen and oxygen atoms together, so you would need some ingredients for food from somewhere and even if they had developed some meal replacement superfood like soylent, which provides all the essential calories, still requires soybean plants, not even the The captain of the ship recognizes what a plan is or how it grows, where is the plant?

So what exactly would the hypothetical food be made of? Also, if the axiom was somehow capable of synthesizing food from nothing, why would it be so big? agreement that the earth can grow plants again, couldn't they stay on the axiom or go and colonize a new planet with that kind of technology? No, they have definitely run out of food and yet we see that the population has managed to survive. for generations on board, the axiom automatically proves that passengers are eating other passengers well, not on its own, but it influences the way we look at other topics, such as where the dead went, the axiom has been flying for 700 years and started again with a population of 600,000, according to the special features on the DVD, the axiom is a virtual city in space designed to meet the needs and wants of each of its 600,000 passengers, during which time we could be sure that those initial 600,000 people have died several times when captain mccree looks at the photos of the captains before him, we see that there were five previous axiom captains who lived and died and that each one was captain for between 120 and 150 years, which It means that we are looking at life expectancies that can be up to 200 years, but that still leaves us with more than 2 million corpses that the axioms will have to deal with and we know that they are not discarded since we see the lock system of air in the garbage disposal areas of the ship, when

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y and eve are pushed into the inner bowels of the axiom with the rest of the waste, no organic material is found, only mechanical parts and when the things are thrown into space again, You can see nothing but garbage and metal.

So if you're not dumping the corpses or launching them into space, there are only two possibilities: burn them to ashes, which is likely, or recycle them, and if you have a lot of one type of material that needs to be recycled. i.e. human bodies and another resource that you desperately need, i.e. food, then it makes at least mathematical sense to see if the surplus of one can solve the deficit of the other, but of course no human being would ever agree to such a monstrous plan. . I am right? Well, I'm right, but aboard the axiom they wouldn't have to remember that captain axiom is incompetent until his spiritual awakening at the end of the movie, captain mccree proves that he has a meaningless degree responsible for nothing more than reading ads and clap twice. to drink his coffee, Creed doesn't even know how the ship's controls work.

Oh, why don't you wake me up for the morning announcements? Honestly, it's the only thing I can do on this ship, so it's clear that any important event or decision. On the ship they are not passing by him, enter Otto, the autopilot, who has no problem instituting the man-eat-man system, remembers that all of Otto's actions revolve around directive A113, a program that says that the axiom must never return to the earth the autopilot takes control of everything and do not return to the earth I repeat, do not return to the earth, let's get out of here the two problems that I just mentioned the axiom filling with corpses and running out of food would greatly threaten the a113 directive by demanding a return to earth unload or obtain more supplies, forcing Otto, in an attempt to meet his schedule, to find a solution to solve both problems at any cost, sir, I insist that you give me the plan to get out of my way, we can't go home, what is it? talking about why not that's captain classified give me the plane what do you mean classified you don't keep any secrets from the captain it's not bad it's just an artificial intelligence that follows its programming to the letter and unlike mccree it self controls almost everything it does. happens on the ship because everything on the axiom is taken care of by the fleet of robots, from being a lifeguard at the pool to performing maintenance and delivering drinks, the passengers have ceded all control to the robots c is, overall, their best friend and many of these robots are obsessed with cleanliness and contaminants therefore it would only be in their programming to want to get rid of something as unhealthy as a human corpse which brings us to the most macabre part of everything.

Sure I've shown how passengers and the axiom could come to eat each other both in terms of necessity and the logistics of how such a system could arise, but up to this point it's been mostly speculation, it's time to prove this grim truth. Using science, just look at the passengers on board the ship. I would say they are a little overweight and I'm not the one to judge them, that's an important point in the movie, the CEO claims that due to the effects of microgravity, you and your passengers may have suffered slight bone loss and The diagram on the screen strongly implies that bone loss is the cause of everyone's booty body, but the science of that just doesn't make any sense.

Surely NASA has done a lot of research anddetermined that the weightlessness of space makes bones less dense. rapidly and causes muscles to atrophy, but neither of these causes people to become overweight and even if they did, what evidence do we really have that these people are subject to microgravity in the first place, based on the way they wall -e falls down the garbage dump and The way the babies slide down the deck of the lido at the end of the movie, the axiom mimics the Earth's gravity, just as it mimics the Earth's temperature. If there was microgravity on board, you wouldn't need a floating chair because literally any chair isn't bolted to the ground. could float, so all this talk about microgravity and the cause of obesity is pure lies and although the movie leads us to believe that their physical inactivity is what makes them gain weight, that is not true either, inactivity is not good for you, but the weight.

The loss is more linked to what you are consuming than what you are burning. Don't get me wrong, the passengers would not be in good shape, but if they never used their muscles they would simply be frail, not fat or overweight, this means that everything they eat regularly is calorie dense, that is what maintains the type of weight What we see. walking around in the movie and it turns out that human flesh could produce those kinds of results according to a disturbingly specific article in popular science, an average human body when cooked is good for a little over 80,000 calories and these were bodies analyzed in the decade 1940s and '50s, long before the American obesity epidemic forced our mayors to decide how big our cups of Mountain Dew can be, so we can imagine that people today would be even more caloric, perhaps surpassing one hundred thousand calories each, and the calories coming from human flesh are not exactly healthy calories, whether the popular science article points out that a significant percentage of those calories in the human body come from the pure fat of adipose tissue So combine, say, a diet high in fat and human flesh with inactivity on board and you get a recipe that results in some very overweight passengers like the ones we see populating the Axiom Now, of course, there's one final problem here. theory: tricking people into eating other people by avoiding that human taste that you will have to deal with, it's kind of like making a child eat brussels sprouts, eat them, it will be good for you or I guess in the case of the axiom, eat them because if you don't eat your fellow travelers there is literally nothing else we can serve you so you are going to die and then feed everyone else so how can you season a human body to that is palatable to a group of unsuspecting passengers?

Well, the solution is much simpler than you might initially think. Science has shown that one of the best ways to mask the taste of something is to blend it and then serve it through a straw, but it's not like everything people consume in the axiom comes through a straw, I mean, oh , that's it, I have nothing, I just ruined my favorite Pixar movie, robot romance never will. I know the same thing and with that Charlton Heston, if you would be so kind as to take us out, these are the people, we have to stop him somehow, but well, that's just a theory, a film theory and cut.