WALL-E‘s Biblical Themes

After watching WALL-E with my daughter’s family on Friday, we agreed that several of the plot lines had ties back to the Bible. (WARNING – possible plot spoilers ahead….)

First, there are ties to the Genesis account of the flood: Mankind is saved by escaping a flood (of garbage) on a large (space) ship. Those on the ship send out a (robotic) dove, which brings back evidence of earth’s renewed plant life, initiating the process of re-populating the earth.

Then there is the obviously feminine character (robot) E.V.E., whose determination to follow “the directive” falters only once, happily with fewer consequences than in the Genesis account. And mankind, who has been lulled into over-consumption by all the technology provided by the “Buy-N-Large” corporation, is gently-but-prophetically interrupted back to reality, and back into action, by WALL-E.

Perhaps I’ve been influenced by the thirteen chapters of Wright’s Surprised by Hope I have finished so far, but I also saw elements of Revelation 21’s new earth in the film’s closing scene and the images of rebuilding that appeared with the final credits.

So, did we see everything? Did we read too much into it? Go see the movie yourself and let me know what you think.