Wall-E: Utopia And Dystopia

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A major theme in the Disney/Pixar 2008 Animated film, Wall-E is Utopia and Dystopia . Throughout the entertaining and informative animated film, Wall-E and the humans are faced with pollution as a major problem (Dystopia). The humans chose to leave the Earth and live in space on a Utopian space craft because the earth had become too polluted. The earth was polluted by the humans from using and consuming too much because they were encouraged to do so by the company ‘Buy In Large’. After the humans left, WALL-E remained on Earth (dystopia) to clean up the rubbish. His job was to find, stack and pack the hard rubbish into piles. He did the same job for seven hundred years. The Utopia on the space ship started to cause problems for the humans.

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