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Sectional Healing 10/21: Empty Plastic Bags

Sectional Healing 10/21: Empty Plastic Bags

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Oct 21, 2020
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There’s a scene from American Beauty where one of the characters shows a video he took of an empty plastic bag being artfully blown around by the wind. The scene is stoic and beautifully metaphorical if not a little heavy-handed in the attention and re-attention the movie pays to this sequence throughout.

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