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I knew before coming across this documentary that plastic was problematic; however, I didn't realize just how pervasive a problem it is, hiding just beneath the surface in plain sight for the ignorant and profit seeking to ignore and convince the unknowing to believe in their lies.

While I already knew plastics were bad, I didn't realize how bad for your health they were, and I will now be asking for emailed receipts when possible, because who really needs to add more problems to our already growing body killing chemicals that we don't even know exist in our food and clothing and every other thing.

It was horrific to see our oceans being filled like garbage dumps and poor marine life being destroyed by the need for prestige and money that society has come to worship.

I wish this had some answers to HOW to fix the problem, but beyond volunteers and counting our our younger generation to learn from our teachers, it's an uphill battle. Still, we need an answer to HOW to fix this problem which was not resolved in the film. Someone needs to go the extra step and find a way to turn the existing plastic in to something less, to reduce it to something less, and there should be more laws banning the level of plastic use currently rather than letting these huge for-profit corporations get away with killing our world and convincing the "blinded by propaganda" population that WE are the problem and WE are the ones that need to fix it NOT the future.

While the story is cute I found Lana to be annoying. I don't care if you lost your dad years ago during Christmas time, that's no reason to be a rude b*tch to your mother, interfere and insert yourself where you have been explicitly told not to, and crush the belief of an eight-year-old child.

The actress playing the role of Lana also didn't help things. She's a bit stiff or something was off in general. The had no facial expressions it was like she was emotionally detached, either reading her lines, or only rotely reciting memorized lines with no feelings... somehow her face couldn't match the emotions of the time. The one scene where she wakes up with a fully PERFECT face of make-up and lipstick is also annoying, lol. Not even realistic, not that movies that are just for "fun" have to be realistic, but something things should.

I do get "loss" having an affect on a person for longer than just a year, but her attitude just made her an unlikable character. Her mother is doing everything she can to accommodate Lana, yet Lana still behaves like a 12-year-old that doesn't get her way and has a tantrum when she doesn't like that other people have moved on.

I knew who was the culprit pretty early on as it seemed kind of obvious to me.

Overall, it was mostly a cute distraction, but one of those seen it once was enough movies.