2/12/18. This is an excellent documentary that shows how plastic products are killing the environment and destroying our health. This is one movie you need to see as it does a great job of showing exactly what it is that Plastic is doing to living things and how specific chemicals are affecting our health by damaging our bodies on the molecular level. Those that sell and develop plastic products have no idea about what the poisons are that they are dealing with. It's scary, and it should scare you to watch this.

Plastics are everywhere because they make products easier to ship, non-breakable, more attractive, and because they are cheap to manufacture. However the use of plastics to contain foods, beverages, to store foods, and for disposable water and soda bottles (etc.) are dangerous; for the long-term. We even use plastic bottles, sippy cups, pacifiers, teething rings, bowls and utensils for our children; because they don't break. Just the use is bad enough, but heating the plastics is even more dangerous. Chemicals leach out of plastic containers, and slowly create serious irreversible health conditions. Plastic (for food uses) is going to become an epidemic; we have just scratched the surface. I am getting rid of 90% of all plastic containers, cups, ziplock bags and utensils in my house and am going to glass or stainless. Also limiting the packaging of bought products. The manufacturers aren't going to protect you. Health cures; natural apple cider vinegar, H2o2.

For me Plastic Planet is a great documentary! It shows the big problems caused by the big amount of plastic products in the world. It shows how less people know about the products they use in their daily life and how less they even know how much plastic they have in their homes (all this includes myself - I didn't know much about how dangerous plastic can be and was shocked and impressed). But this movie understands to "teach" us without a "schoolmasterly" manner. There are also funny moments included, that give you a good laugh. Which makes it maybe difficult for some people to see the urgent signals the story wants to tell us. But that's up to every single person itself: to start thinking about what's going on around us and in the world.

To be perfectly honest, I went to the movies to watch this because I wanted to support the idea of an Austrian documentary, because I believe they deserve more attention than they are getting nowadays. So basically I was predisposed to like the film. I hated it. The information content could be compared to one of those Galileo-specials: nothing of consistence, the parts with any potential were not explained, zero visual aids to the chemical reactions (except for an incredibly lame cartoon). Werner tried very hard to come off Michael Moore- style(he carried around a backpack the whole time- WTF?!), which sadly did not work at all for him. To "force" an interview, and then leave when politely asked, is not my idea of a committed reporter. Many of the dialogues were irrelevant and void of any consequence. Basically, he took a great topic, had an intriguing poster made, and at this point stopped letting the good ideas in. I felt I did not learn about plastic, and the movie -lacking an offer for any kind of solution- did not have a point.