Irony Behind Disney Pixar's Wall-E

In this article, Barsanti discusses the message and irony behind Disney Pixar’s Wall-E. He starts off by explaining how Andrew Stanton, the film’s director/writer, “swore up and down that the film was not supposed to have any sort of environmental message.” Andrew Stanton states that it is a “story about one lonely robot falling in love with another robot.” Barsanti argues that this is not the case, and that “the love story between the two robots only exists because of the dystopian vision that surrounds them.” Wall-E, takes place 700 years in the future after humans’ excess consumption and waste left the planet entirely devoid of life. Wall-E is the last remaining clean up robot on Earth and along with EVE, a robot sent back to earth on a scanning mission, goes on a mission in an effort to bring humans back to Earth. He then explains how the “7/11-esque” Buy-N-Large Corporation “seemed to have become the one-stop private public business/government omnientity in charge of essentially all human activity.” As Barsanti states, “The message is clear…This is a planet destroyed by overconsumption, aided and abetted by a sickening web of consumer-industrial-complex propaganda.” Next, he elaborates on the irony of the humans on the ship and how they are “coddled into blob-like indolence by even more depraved levels of Barcolounger and Big Gulp-style creature comforts” like “a swaddled band of babies.” He continues in saying that it’s hard to see the trashed earth and the humans on the ship and not think this film is
Though some of Barsanti’s comments, like calling the humans on the ship “a swaddled band of babies” are a bit harsh, they’re true. Although pointing out the hypocreciy of producing thousands of Wall-E and EVE toys was enlightening, it does not relate to my topic. However, this article will provide me useful quotes and