When I watch older movie like WALL-E it seems to me, that someone was trying either to tell us something in 2008 or they knew what is the plan.
The first part of the movie is very nostalgic and shows how the Earth is devastated via huge amount of garbage which the corporations left there. The interesting part starts, when a probe returns from earth to mother ship with positive finding of surviving plant.
The situation seems very similar as is now. People on the ship are incredibly obese, laying on flying deckchairs with huge screen before them. Everything is automated, monitored and managed by robots which are controlled via one single big corporation. Something like Covid life with Zoom, home delivery and iPhones. Everything has to be also cleaned from dirt as it can be contaminated.
Even conversation between passengers sounds familiar. It’s like "And so, we can do X - Y”. The person behind him on screen responds: “But we did that yesterday” and second person asks: “So what do you want to do?” Which he answers: “I don’t know, something”.
The plot then continues into the commander center of the ship. Where is sitting captain and he is controlled by evil autopilot. The captain doesn’t even know how anything works, as he lost all the knowledge and all his work consist of daily reports where nothing changes. When the probe returns positive, he don’t know what to do and even after autopilot provides him manual in form of book, he doesn’t know how book works.
When he activates the emergency mode in case of return to earth, the autopilot instruct him that he can not reverse the course of ship as he has classified command A113 from CEO of the corporation, which states that the operation of cleaning earth didn’t worked and they decided to simply never return back. Captain argue with the autopilot, that it was 700 years ago and the earth has changed but the autopilot refuse to obey and take over control of ship from the captain.
In the end of the movie Wall-E and Eva manage with help of rebellious robots to return the plant into central computer and direct ship back to earth. There is also very brave situation, where captain manage to stand-up on his own feet and fights the autopilot in duel about who controls the ship.