The Story of Stuff

I personally loved this film by Leonard. As a new comer to the environmental study fields, I thought this film was easy, compelling and entertaining enough to catch my attention. This film is certainly good start point for any people, young or old who are interest in learning about the environment. I liked how the film did not have over load of information. Since obviously this film is not for the experts in the environmental issue, it is better not to overwhelm people with excessive information that could scare people way from simply being interested in this topic. However, we cannot say this film is targeting children as the article by the Heritage Foundation did, because it is easy, simple and animated. It is true that there were some generalization of American’s materials economy. However, I do not think that this film has any intention to enforce negative aspects of the society to the children of our nation. Despite Cohen’s argument that this film is only states guilt of consuming and wasting rather than providing workable solution, the film actually provides some guidelines or solution to have better environment such as green chemistry, renewable energy and local living economy.