Disney And Pixar's Wall-E: Destroying The Earth

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WALL-E takes place in a contaminated wasteland which was once Earth. The once elegant planet beaming with life is now uninhabited, with only a small mobile trash compactor left to clean up the human waste. The old, sentient robot, WALL-E, roams the deserted Earth while an innovative man made robot with a mission rummages through the heaps of trash, desperately searching for any sign of organic life. Disney/Pixar have critiqued how humanity has ignored the buildup of waste destroying the Earth. The fictional citizens of WALL-E seem to be an over exaggerated form of the obesity commonly found among more developed countries. Thereby, this lack of awareness to the dangers of the buildup of waste has led to the deserted earth that the only robot, WALL-E, to take care of humanity’s mistakes. Consequently, hardly anything is alive on the desolated planet earth. Disney/Pixar shows that a large number of people can affect many things, such as how enough people ignorant of what they do can have drastic effects on the environment. The earth is nearly uninhabitable as all of mankind has left and only the strongest …show more content…

Consequently, the community of WALL-E have ultimately given up on hard work, their body shape displays their actions. Presumably, humankind has become increasingly dependent on technology and because of this, machine's control and take care of the community. Incidentally, there is a pan shot of the oldest to newest captains and the further the camera travels to the right the more technology advances and the more obese mankind becomes. Regrettably, society has become more and more dependent on technology as it does most of the work for us. For example, cars have helped us travel far distances but humanity has relied on them so much it’s not as common as it was to walk to places 100 years ago compared to

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