Plastic Bag
Abril 16, 2010 por Michel
*ACTUALIZACIÓN: ahora puedes verlo subtitulado en castellano…
Werner Herzog gives voice to a plastic bag’s existential crisis. A very unique and powerful filmmaking statement.
This short film by American director Ramin Bahrani(Goodbye Solo) traces the epic, existential journey of a plastic bag (voiced by Werner Herzog) searching for its lost maker, the woman who took it home from the store and eventually discarded it. Along the way, it encounters strange creatures, experiences love in the sky, grieves the loss of its beloved maker, and tries to grasp its purpose in the world.
In the end, the wayward plastic bag wafts its way to the ocean, into the tides, and out into the Pacific Ocean trash vortex — a promised nirvana where it will settle among its own kind and gradually let the memories of its maker slip away.
It is a heavy subject—existential angst—and in the form of plastic bag’s personification, definitely absurd. But for the most part the film takes itself and its concept seriously, albeit with occasional breaks for wry humor. The result is a film that is a success as education and entertainment, that musters a startling amount of pathos from its subject and a surprising amount of empathy from its audience.
Director Ramin Bahrani, has developed quite a reputation on the basis of his three feature films, Chop Shop, Goodbye Solo and Man Push Cart, which turn a humanistic eye to the American immigrant experience. This attitude coupled with his frequent use of non-actors, has lead some to classify him as something of a neo-neorealist. Thus, on first blush, it is strange to see him tackle a high-concept work such as this. However the same skills that prove successful in his features buoy Plastic Bag: a broad and sympathetic understanding of interior worlds, and a photographer’s eye for natural beauty in the exterior world.
*Making of Plastic Bag and more info about the film, here.
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