Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Garbage Dreams

This was a beautiful documentary with a beautiful story.
I felt a connection to each and every character and their families because of the way the director followed their stories. I was touched by how hard each member of the family worked as a team to help the family as a whole. The city must smell of garbage and not be hygienic, but i was interested to find out that they have a person in charge of hygiene for the city, and that she is also involved in their lives and relationships with each other. 
I felt that some of the older children had become selfish with their aspirations, but i can't blame them since they have worked their whole lives for their families and they aren't even old enough to go through puberty. I felt sad for the families whose main providers had been sent to jail for trying to work for their family. 
I was shocked and impressed by the amount the town recycles for the city, 75% is a huge percentage since we only recycle around 20% and use more expensive machines as they showed with the recycling plants in Manchester. We should be paying these people big amounts of money to recycle all the materials in the world and we would all be much better off. 

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