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现在还有什么东西不用塑料做？塑料在任何家庭中都已经成为最普通的物品——它便宜，用途多样而且耐用。然而塑料是不可生物降解的，并且虽然它看起来容易丢弃，许多种塑料并不容易回收，所以大多数塑料物品注定将永远成为垃圾。更糟的是，塑料加工经常产生有毒废物，处理废品塑料产品的方式是隐藏问题——大规模的陆地堆填和海洋倾倒，而不是解决它。影片制作人Ian Connacher探寻了不负责任的成瘾的塑料使用所造成全球环境影响的后果。 What isn't made of plastic these days? Plastic has become one of the most commonplace items in any household -- it's inexpensive, versatile and durable. However, the latte...。Bipedalism, or 'two-footed walking', is the story of a painter who grew up in an orphanage and only years later learns the circumstances of his father's disappearance and death. Childhood memories bring the main character back to the past: he buys a house in the suburbs that used to belong to his family. In the basement, he finds his father's archives and scientific research documents on the hybridization of human race with related biological species. Studying the archive material, he unexpectedly finds evidence of efforts to renew the experiments on the remaining hybrid population. The painter then becomes a researcher, and consequently a victim. The basic idea of his father's research was to change, control and influence the process of human evolution - initially connected with eugenics theories of the period before World War II, and now being placed in a context of modern 'biotechnological' expectations by his former colleagues. The main character tries to recreate and realize his father's heritage, who was forced to cooperate with state terror organizations, using the results of his secret research. In a tragic manner, this information turns into the main character's reality, at first forcing him to reappraise his father's values and later driving him to madness. (http://www.input2002.com/en/film/24418.html)。From Academy Award-nominated filmmakers Steven Ascher and Jeanne Jordan comes Our Towns, a documentary that paints a remarkable picture of America and how the rise of civic and economic reinvention is transforming small cities and towns across the country. Based on journalists James and Deborah Fallows' book Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America, the film ...。
