FM · Film · 2008 · 98 min
WALL·E
Andrew Stanton
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The machines
The Axiom's full-service automation, presided over by AUTO.
What people do all day
Passengers recline in hover-chairs with screens inches from their faces, drinking liquid meals, never walking, never turning to look at the person beside them. Bone density is gone. Nobody has noticed.
Pattern
Enforced idleness — Everything is provided, so nothing is left to do — and that turns out to be unbearable.
Note
The best answer in any medium, and it is delivered almost wordlessly. Forster needed a novella for this.
Same answer, different work
- The Time Machine · Book, 1895
- The Machine Stops · Book, 1909
- Last and First Men · Book, 1930
- With Folded Hands · Book, 1947
- Childhood's End · Book, 1953
- Idiocracy · Film, 2006