this is the best thing you’ll see all week. and it’s only monday, so that means it must involve werner herzog as the internal monologue of a plastic bag in ramin bahrani’s seriously excellent short film, Plastic Bag.
this is truly wonderful stuff (the fortunate result of a kismet between two like-minded filmmakers) and 18 minutes impeccably well-spent. you won’t regret it. even if you don’t have an easily explicable hetero lust for an old german filmmaker. yet.
david! you found it! oh my, day (+week?) made. i feel a great affinity to this bag - probably more than i do to say, characters in most of the films i have seen this year, minus a few. ah, plastic bag.
also, why was this not nominated last night? how do shorts nominations work, anyone? because i saw about two minutes of the awardwinning short and had to fastforward before it caused me to harm myself… whereas this…whereas this…
