WALL-E is a film that relies alot on its element of environmental storytelling, with wide screen landscape shots that sweep the viewer through the post-apocalyptic landscape and describe how it came to be this way with close ups of mementos of the world since passed. There is a real varied mix of shots to try and capture every aspect of the desolate environment.
The story of a polluted environment due to mankind is told well in WALL-E through its use of colour I feel. The sky is hazy and filled with clouds of dust, everything in the environment appears to be the same shade of beige - to brown. Signs are rusted and tinged with the same beige-brwn colour.
However when the story develops we see a very clear contrast between that world and the environment on board the spacecraft that is home to the survivors of mankind that have been evacuated from earth. We see that on the ship, everything is clean and automated, with blue and red neon colours streaking through the white/grey interior of the spacecraft.
I think what this tells the viewer is that through technology we may progress, but at what cost? In the environment on earth in WALLE it is clear that all of the pollution came as a result of overproduction of consumer products and the resulting wastage from said products.
There is a good environmental message in this film that can be applied to the current times more so now than at any other point in time
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