The event I chose to attend was hosted by Jessica Irish. During her presentation she shows and talks about her short documentary film The Moral Plastik. It's a film talking about one of the biggest active crises , the plastic crisis. When the documentary began my initial reactions were on how sophisticated everything was. The world play and knowledge being thrown help elevate the quality of the film.
To really touch the audience the main approach Ms Irish uses in her documentary is an emotional one. She does include some statistics to back up her claim but she mainly focuses on using pathos. She talks about her daughter, mother and grandmother and how this problem has potentially affected their lives. She talks about the lives of the animals and explains how sad it is that their lives are being taken away from these plastics. She also mentions how new industry plants are taking over pieces of land that many consider important to them because of their ancestors.
After watching the short film Ms. Irish began explaining her process in which she created the film. She explains how her purpose of beginning this process began with her daughter's obsession with whales and dreadfully seeing how they are destroyed by these plastic compounds. The issue being brought up to question is somewhat similar to a lot of other social issues like climate change or being vegan because of animal cruelty. But as bad as it may sound, personally I don't connect with any of these issues. So even though I found the documentary to have a very captivating story I don’t really connect with it the way the author does.
Sources
1. “5 Unexpected Solutions to the Plastic Crisis.” BBC Earth, https://www.bbcearth.com/news/5-unexpected-solutions-to-the-plastic-crisis#:~:text=The%20plastic%20crisis%20is%20one,choking%20turtles%20to%20poisoning%20whales.
2. Parker, Laura. “Plastic Pollution Facts and Information.” Environment, National Geographic, 3 May 2021, https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/plastic-pollution.
3. Rapier, Robert. “The Plastic Pollution Crisis.” Forbes, Forbes Magazine, 10 Dec. 2021, https://www.forbes.com/sites/rrapier/2021/09/30/the-plastic-pollution-crisis/.
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