On Prime in 2024 , Jeremy Irons travels the world in 2010, visiting scientists who prove how human trash & plastic waste degrading in soil contaminates all rivers, oceans, wildlife & ultimately harm all ppl globally. It's both shocking but also hopeful bc film provides real answers that everyone can do IF one tries.

Some reviewers complain when Irons travels to Viet Nam & India, to show horridly deformed infants & toddlers 40 YRS after USA used most lethal sulfur "agent Orange" in war & huge impact of growing city has on adjacent villages. Would same commenters state it's"merandering distraction" if the youngsters were European? Only Viet Nam & Cambodia were drowned in deadly "agent orange" & suffer long lasting adverse effects generations later, proving how sulfur remains in mammals, & birthing baby is only way female can rid of some of her sulferyrixibs stored in body.

Film also shows dead whales, orcas & dolphins are autopsied & flesh tested for types of degrading plastics & toxins. More VIP, data provirs there's literally a a toxic soupy like film covering all oceans & rivers by 2011, that remain today.

Film's Global REMEDY to accumulated steadily growing deadly trash is DAILY CONSUMER CHOICE & changing our habits . All govts deny both trash burning & burying trash In landfills causes any harm despite all science, cancers afflicting ppl, deformed culled livestock, & massive govt deemed "toxic crops/ dairy foods" ordered destroyed.

Consumer can either continue def unsustainable discard daily packaged 1 n use items, incl global cigarette butts litter, or change one's behavior.

Remedy is NOT hard to do even after Covid. Irons shows genuine inspiring examples of how different ppl in different cultures changed to become truly garbage free.

I saw this at the Cork Film Festival this weekend. Unfortunately the director couldn't make it due to family illness.

Overall I felt the message was a bit muddled at times - particularly when Jeremy Irons visits the orphanages in Vietnam - and it dragged in parts. They spend an awful lot of time interviewing people involved in various incinerators around the world but the message is always the same so after a while it gets a bit boring. When they focus on the sea and the amount of plastic in it again they get different people to say the same thing which again gets a little irritating. Probably the most glaring example of this is the very beginning when it focuses on the trash mountain in Lebanon that is leaking into the sea. It alternates between long shots of the mountain, to Jeremy sitting on a trash covered beach looking pensive, then back to the mountain, then Jeremy.... I felt like standing up and going "OK I GET IT!! LET'S MOVE ON!!" Having said that, Jeremy was a great choice of protagonist as he is both engaging and humane in terms of those that he encounters, and quite funny at times too. It ends on an optimistic note which is important for these kinds of documentaries as most of the content is fairly depressing. But I feel they could easily shaved at least 20 minutes off the running time without in any way affecting the narrative.

Yesterday, i watched this movie in the International Documentary Film Festival at Erasms Huis Jakarta. First thing i want to say is 'Shocking'. Candida Brady provided undebatable facts how the waste effect entire world and human being. Eventough this movie is documentary, which contain lots of academic analysis about waste and its effect, but the present of Jeremy Iron give the taste of humor too in some parts. It gave the refreshment after all analysis which make your forehead crinkled . I think the message of the film easily embraced by the deliberation of the real facts. I wonder, how long this film making took time as it covers almost all parts of world, from east to west, from south to north. Just Bravo!