They Are Everywhere, Plastics –Bag it Review

They Are Everywhere, Plastics –Bag it Review

Dewi Sagita (10/296703/SA/15132)

            “The story begins with a single plastic bag...” The statement opens and sucks the reader in to the idea of the movie ‘plastic’. Bag it , a movie by Suzan Berreza featured with Ted Berrier first makes the sign of big question mark in my brain – what is this plastic movie for? How could be this movie made?

            After moving further, this movie makes me aware that everything around us is made of plastic. Great. Even this disposable thing is kind of important for us in running our daily activity. We shop in the market and we are given a plastic bag to put our stuffs, our drink is exactly in the bottle, out eating utensils or even food packaging. What should we do with that if that has to be connected with the environment?

            Environmental issues being involved in this movie makes me pretty worry to notice the living surrounded, and I think you feel the same. Disposable thing, this plastic is produced in such a huge quantities and they are being thrown everyday by people. After throwing it, It goes away but actually it doesn’t goes away. It sticks around for the very long time since this is again, disposable thing. Even, the problem increases when the plastic is taken to the sea. How do the animals survive with that polluted water?

            I’ve just said that because the movie says that. Plastic bag which is made by polyethylene is considered would be bad for the living and environment. It is proved by the dead birds, turtles, and whales whose stomachs are full of plastics. Hundred thousands marine animals die each year. Isn’t that awful?

            The harm of plastic doesn’t stop here. For whoever parents caring the babies must notice what kind of toys or baby stiffs made of plastic that contains phthalates. Bag it provides information about the harm of phthalates to the growth of babies since it affects the hormone within the body to create any disorders and constructed of their reproductive system, gender, and intelligence.

This couldn’t be as good as the documenter film would be if there is no good evidence in it. bag it delivers the way plastics harm to be introduced and known by people around the world by involving the important figures such as scientist, marine research foundation, national geographic explorer, author, professor of environmental medicine , etc.

            Even though this is a documentary film which is scientifically factual, the way it is presented by Ted Berrier is pretty fun to watch since he puts light humor in every scene he does. Therefore, this movie will not be that boring and confusing for providing many scientific, chemicals, and environmental talks and terms to watch.

            After watching this is there any question come out of your mind? If you ask me, yes I do.  So what should we do? What do we do with the plastic? Or with the environmental we live? We may take examples from some countries like China, India, Australia, South Africa, French, and Brazil has banned plastics. We might try from the very simple thing to bring our plastic bag for shopping, our bottle for drink, and not to use many plastic products if we don’t need that , try to recycle and not to litter them everywhere especially the sea might be at least helpful to do. It might be not easy as we think but we can learn from this movie to try to ‘Bag it’!