Plastic China (2016)
9/10
This reality is so ironic.
21 January 2018
This documentary did a really great job at making contrasts between modernity and agricultural life. A dreamlike product in the developed countries becomes wasted and is shipped to a former small agricultural village in China. People there wanted to thrive someday by decomposing the wastes. The packages and publications from the waste make them dream. Kids made themselves capes , computers and auto shows, and the "boss" wanted to buy a dream car in the future. The poison we considered in the cities becomes their bed for sweet dream.

It is beyond my imagination and keeps me rethink the recycling industry because it can transfer the damage to other countries to recycle and claim that the product is environmentally friendly without seeing the actual recycle process. But at the same time it is also an industry depend on wastes and it is on which people live. This documentary really raised a dilemma: How could we make the protagonists' life better? Should we cut down this kind of industry? However as the Kun said:" I don't have other skills. I do it for living." then, should we produce more wastes? Do they have to live like this?
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