It looks like Pixar couldn't resist the Left Coast pressure to make a modern day morality play on the environment. In case your not familiar with what a morality play is, here is a snippet from wikipedia:
Morality plays are a type of theatrical allegory in which the protagonist is met by personifications of various moral attributes who try to prompt him to choose a godly life over one of evil.... At the dawn of the 15th century morality plays were common throughout medieval Europe as didactic plays intended to teach good morals to their audience.
Well, I feel duly edified. I know that I have chosen the wrong course and am living the unvirtuous life. I drink Diet Coke in a big cup, I drive a big car, I sit in lounge chairs and watch TV on occasion. I'm glad I now have the opportunity to get rid of everything I believe and become a true believer. Before I do, I have a couple of observations and questions from the movie:
1. Why was the antagonist in the movie a stand in for Walmart/Corporate America? Why does Pixar (proxy for the Left) think it makes even the slightest bit of sense that a corporation would be building space ships to save humanity? Why would the CEO of the corporation be standing in front of a presidential seal sending people off to space.
I would imagine, in Pixar's mind, that it's because they see corporations taking over everything in the future. This is absurd. Corporations are under the constant assault by the true omniscient, omnipresent force, which is the government.
Pixar can't say this though, because the Lefties don't want to undermine government authority, which Progressive/Lefties see as the answer to every problem. Pass a law, write a regulation, take away any and all personal freedom.
2. The rich irony of the whole movie, about people not doing things for themselves, is the whole thing being animated by computers. If the Pixar writers are such believers,why didn't they do the whole movie by hand.
3. Why is it that Corporations are always the villain? Isn't Pixar a big corporation, belonging to an even bigger corporation, Disney? Why didn't they use some simulation of the Disney logo instead of using a Walmart simulation. I'd love to see, just once, the government or some bumbling government agency portrayed in this role. The government is never the bad guy. It's always a corporation.
