Film is an important visual art form that presents a universal power of communication.
WALL-E, the American computer animated science fiction film produced by Pixar Animation studios for Walt Disney Pictures in 2008, deals with the themes of eco-criticism combined with ideas about future earth and technology. The movie portraits about the ecological cycle of destruction on a global level, pointing it as a planetary issue.
The movie starts by revealing the 29th century Earth, which is a wasteland by the extreme toxic pollution done by human beings. WALL- E, Waste Allocation Load Lifter (Earth Class), the only remaining functional robot left by BNL mega corporation for cleaning up the Earth and WALL-E's pet cockroach, inhibits the planet. The robot's daily routine of work is distracted by EVE, Extra terrestrial Vegetation Evaluator, a robot send to Earth for scanning the planet for plant life. EVE, after finding the only plant on Earth which was kept by WALL-E, returns to the probe to get it to the Axiom, the mothership which send EVE for searching Earth. The Axiom was produced by BNL corporation as a vacation cruiser to carry humans from depleting Earth to space until plant life reoccurs in the planet. WALL-E who had been following EVE in Earth also follows her to Axiom due to his growing concern and affection towards the robot, and reaches the Axiom. The ship reveals about the corporatism and consumption based society at its peak with the help of technology. WALL- E is able to view humans behaving like robots and robots that tend to behave like humans as a result of absence of culture or nature. The plant goes missing on the way to captain's headquarters that results in considering EVE as faulty and is sent for diagnosis, while WALL- E misunderstands that EVE is under attack and tries to rescue her. This only brings more troubles far ahead like freeing other captive robots and many law obstructions in the Axiom while EVE tries to help WALL-E to safety. Both the robots tries to hand over the plant to captain of the ship, while the automatic assistant Auto refuses to turn the ship to Earth by showing an order from the BNL authorities of 2110 that says of issuing a Never return command as the planet couldn’t be recovered and thus granting Auto all the powers of the ship. The captain, with WALL-E, EVE and all other robots and humans in the ship, tries to overpower Auto and return to Earth. They achieve success by shutting off Auto and the ship returns to the home planet under captain's order. WALL-E who had been crushed while struggling against Auto, is repaired by EVE when reached on Earth, and they unite while the immigrants tries to rediscover the plant life in the planet and succeeds in it. Thus, the film speaks about a subjective plot consisting of real environmental problems and matters concerning ecological depletion as the theme.
WALL- E is able to view humans behaving like robots and robots that tend to behave like humans as a result of absence of culture or nature. The movie depicts human as the reason for the environmental destruction in Earth that eventually resulted in migration or space exile. According to it, the apocalyptic content of the movie qualifies it more under the label of Eco criticism. WALL-E shows that by the time of 29th century or earlier, all controls over the planet was transferred to robots, thus the human authority becoming obscure and robots gradually taking over the control. WALL-E is able to survive only by evolving by repairing itself by the parts of other robots which has stopped working. This indicates the very cycle of natural order that the evolving and the fittest can only survive in the world. Even in the presence or absence of nature.
On 2008, Disney and Pixar combined released Wall-E which the IMDb pundits awarded with a score of 94/100^.
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