Central Themes of WALL-E

In WALL-E, technological advances have amputated humans from their natural environment through reliance upon artificial intelligence. This over-reliance has transformed the humans in the film into a lazy and mechanic society. The technological advances have destroyed the earth as corporations have covered it with garbage and abandoned it to cleaning robots such as WALL-E. As a result of these advances, humans have adapted the qualities of robots. In turn, WALL-E begins to show human characteristics and wants to return humans to their natural environment through his journey for love and nurture. Mankind's irresponsible use of technology, and failure to create the technology to correct the extensive damage done to earth, leads to exile and role reversal of humans and robots.