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Biblical Vision Of Wall-E Film Review

Wall-E's appreciation for the world and his Eden-like naivete (versus the terrible knowledge brought about by Eve's discovery of the living plant that will bring back humanity), shows how false and world-weary the humans have become in their consumerist bubbles. There is one particularly marked difference between Wall-E and the traditional Christian vision of divine grace offered in the Bible, thought. The concept of salvation is usually conceptualized as ascending to heaven and losing one's ties to the earth. For Wall-E, however, the only grace comes when human beings and the robot return to the planet and reconnect with the ability to move in an earthbound way and to love the earth, as embodied in the tiny planet that still survives and leads...

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http://www.theguardian.com/film/2008/jul/20/animation.conservation

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http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%201&version=NIV

Murphy, M. "Anatomy of a scene." The New York Times. 27 Jun 2008. 6 May 2014.

http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/movies/20080627_WALLE_FEATURE/index.html

Scott, A.O. "In a world left silent, one heart beeps." The New York Times. 26 Jun 2008.

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Wall-E. Directed by Andrew Stanton, 2008.

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