These trash towers have been constructed one brick at a time by this industrious little robot, who is seemingly the only energetic thing left on the entire planet.
In the opening scene of the film, New York City is piled high with what looks to be enormous ant hills, but turns out to be vast teetering edifices of junk. It's Wall-E's job to clean away all the garbage that humans left behind, and it's a very big task. Join us and grow independent media in Canada The Tyee is supported by readers like you Seven hundred years later, the earth is still a mess. In the early 2100s, humanity took to the skies, waiting for the robots to do their work, and tidy up the joint. Written and directed by Andrew Stanton, Wall-E is the story of a little robot whose name is an acronym for Waste Allocation Load Lifter-Earth Class.
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