The film follows a wayward plastic grocery bag: sentient and voiced by Werner Herzog to amazing effect, as it searches for meaning to its existence. It is a heavy subject — existential angst — and in the form of a plastic bag’s personification, definitely absurd.
Via a process of estrangement, Plastic Bag allows us to see, through the plastic bag’s experience, our own world with new eyes. A world, eventually, without humans at all.
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An environmental film on the lifecycle of plastic
The film follows a wayward plastic grocery bag: sentient and voiced by Werner Herzog to amazing effect, as it searches for meaning to its existence. It is a heavy subject — existential angst — and in the form of a plastic bag’s personification, definitely absurd.
Via a process of estrangement, Plastic Bag allows us to see, through the plastic bag’s experience, our own world with new eyes. A world, eventually, without humans at all.
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An environmental film on the lifecycle of plastic
The film follows a wayward plastic grocery bag: sentient and voiced by Werner Herzog to amazing effect, as it searches for meaning to its existence. It is a heavy subject — existential angst — and in the form of a plastic bag’s personification, definitely absurd.
Via a process of estrangement, Plastic Bag allows us to see, through the plastic bag’s experience, our own world with new eyes. A world, eventually, without humans at all.
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