Everyone uses plastic in one or the other form at some mode of their life. Plastic can be in the form of bags, cups, toys and so on. In the Plastic Bag short film the speaker brings life to the plastic bag that is on its quest to find its maker who lifted it from a grocery store, the tragic meetings with every part of earth, and its struggle with the natural elements like water and air, challenging the environmental catastrophes, trying to find mortality. Its maker utilized it for her work like carrying tennis balls, using it for her leg therapy and finally dumped it. Plastic bags don’t arouse fear, but, as Bernstein recognized, they do play on people’s sense of guilt about consumption and the wastefulness of throwaway products (Freinkel, 2011).
The emotions displayed by the plastic bag in trying to find its maker in the statue of the lady is quite passionate, though it gets disappointed to know it cannot find any happiness in it. The music draws into sensitivity, displays the gravity of the emotions that the bag is lonely and depressed in trying to search its airborne love and maker, and drills deep down to provide freedom to the plastic bag that is searching for brevity. The speaker emphasizes on why to create something on this earth just for the benefit of human beings that can be imperishable. All items created by plastic are not biodegradable and most of them cause unimaginable harm to the earth. People live and die but the plastics live forever for generations. The horror of immortality and the detriments of an eternal life are clearly depicted by the director.
Many animals and birds consume bits and pieces of plastic considering it as food. No mythical natural element like water, air can perish this plastic. The manufacturers must improvise on the manufacturing process and invent better measures to depart the life of the plastic; but it still continues to be manufactured in many countries and used everywhere. A reusable plastic bag can be made of any material like cotton, jute, polyester, nylon, polypropylene mesh, recycled soda bottles, or even thick durable polyethylene (Freinkel, 2011).
References
Freinkel, Susan (2011). Plastic: A Toxic Love Story, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
