Bag It (A Movie Review)

“What a documentary. I feel like being awakened with a little slap,” was the first thing creeping into to my mind after watching “Bag It”, a 2010 documentary directed by Suzan Beraza.

Last Monday on 6 May, my creative writing class did not come out as usual. Since our lecturer Mas Dalih couldn’t make it to the class, his friend Mbak Abmi took a charge of the class instead. Thank God, she said that we were going to watch this thought-provoking documentary entitled “Bag It” throughout the class.

The film shows us that the ubiquity of plastics in our daily lives has a great impact to the earth ecology as well as the whole beings on it. Jeb Berrier, as a host of this documentary, let the audience know how the production and usage of plastics today are considerably excessive. The plastics are omnipresent, and those are often merely used single time. Without considering the effect to themselves or their environment, people buy and use products packed in plastics, then just simply throw the bags away. What they don’t realize is, the usage of plastics could potentially carry numerous of serious disease to people. They also damage the earth biological life, to mention some in the documentary are the birds that died of swallowing the bottle cap, which made of plastics.

As a documentary, “Bag It” smoothly shows us a substantial issue of our environment nowadays: the matter of plastics as one of major global pollutions. The facts it presents are packed in an informative way that is eye-opening yet also entertaining. It wouldn’t be great unless the film is enclosed with the solution. Fortunately it does. This documentary luckily offers an applicable resolution to the issue it raised: by reducing the consumption of plastics, and use the other alternative instead. After watched this film, guess I’d better do something, start with a little part of my life, like bring my own tumblr or shopping bag rather than contributing to the more bunch of hardly decomposable waste on our beloved mother earth.