Plastic Bag

What spoke out most to me in the film was the personification of the plastic bag and how it seemed to be immortal.  I feel that the producer made a good choice by personifying the plastic bag because we, as humans, are able to more easily connect with the bag.  We can relate our own feelings and lives to the bag’s feelings that are portrayed such as loneliness, sadness, and longing.  This, in turn, helps him get his point across to us.

Something else that the bag portrayed was that nothing could destroy it.  This is how it becomes seemingly immortal.  When it got thrown away and sent to the landfill, it did not decompose like the other trash did over time.  Plastic takes a very, very long time to decompose, but it eventually does.  I feel that  this is the point the film was trying to make.  We are more easily able to understand the bag’s immortality because the bag is personified, so we are able to hear what it is thinking and feeling.  At the end of the film, the bag says that it “wishes [his maker] would have created him so he could die.”  This is where we very clearly get a sense that the plastic bag is immortal.  It expresses that it wants to die, or decompose, but it is not able to.