AMERICAN BEAUTY ~ Plastic Bag Scene [HD]

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"Do you want to see the most beautiful thing I ever filmed? It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowing. And there's this electricity in the air, you can almost hear it, right? And this bag was just... dancing with me ... like a little kid begging me to play with it. For fifteen minutes. That's the day I realized that there was this entire life behind things, and this incredibly benevolent force that wanted me to know there was no reason to be afraid. Ever. Video is a poor excuse, I know. But it helps me remember ... I need to remember...
Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world ... I feel like I can't take it... and my heart is just going to cave in."
~Dialog and sound track from the movie "American Beauty." The soundtrack album was produced by Chris Douridas, Sam Mendes, and Michael Ostin, and was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media in the year 2000, the first year to offer this award.
The soundtrack features two excerpts from the film's score, composed by Thomas Newman, which won several awards. Elliott Smith's cover of The Beatles song "Because" was the end credit for the film. The track "Dead Already" was later featured in the 2005 film Madagascar. Newman's 'Any Other Name' and 'Dead Already' were sampled by Jakatta for their house track "American Dream" in 2000. [source: en.wikipedia.or...]
Additional editing and photos at the end by: AquarielCharm (other channels are Aetopus, ShiftingReality RealityShifts, IntoTheLight911 and others ;)
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A comment I like by youtube Somaholiday102: "The whole point of this scene and really the movie is to look closer. I mean, just listen to him...you think the scene is beautiful, but you're missing the actual beauty." December 2016.
The Benevolent force.

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@Snomo 2 года назад

I've watched this scene so many times in the past without actually watching the movie itself. Tonight that changed. I've just finished the movie and it's even better than I could've imagined. And I'm just totally fascinated by Ricky (not so much him filming a dead homeless person), but more his perspective. I can just watch this scene and I feel... calm. A complete sense of wonder. And I think it's largely due to Wes Bentley's voice and the way he expresses such a profound message with such a tender approach. I imagine some people watch this and think '...it's a plastic bag'. And I often feel shame for connecting with this. Embarrassment. But everything about this just screams beauty to me. I feel like we've become so desensitized to small wonders like these. I feel the same way with the stars too. I hope one day I can find similar-minded people who value beauty above material things. God, I hope I do.

@patapuss3265 2 года назад

I feel like I need to re watch this movie with my new perspective on life, I fear the first time I watched it I may not have fully experienced it. Your point about seeking higher value above material things has been on my mind for the past couple months. I'm 22 and I work at an established architecture firm and everyone around me is constantly talking about their car, cloths, house, watch, wife, golf clubs, and so on. They have so much importance on "their things" and I find it sickening. Part of me says, well you better get what they have or you'll never fit in, but I have another voice telling me to gtfo and do something crazy, like move to Paris and continue my study's on clinical psych. In a way, this video helps me remember what true beauty is.

@MGSVxBreakpoint 2 года назад

Life starts out a conquest of the world until one day you realize: everything you ever needed was right there in front of you.

@tuongmac2263 2 года назад

The character has the eyes of a kid.

@magusalbus5146 2 года назад

Here we are.

@stephanbrandau2606 2 года назад

Very beautiful comment Sam. imho Ricky's inner strength in the film shines through, he is bold without being rude or even self conscious. A real human being, fascinated with nature like a child before succumbing to what society deems respectful or worthy. Star Constellations are spoken of in the Christian Bible like Orion the hunter and the Pleiades. Also the expansion rate of the Universe is revealed as being controlled by God! Jesus is the way my brother. The Gospel of John is an excellent place to start learning the power of the Gospel. God bless you.

@TheArtofGuitar 9 лет назад

This scene means more than we may realize.

@bluebotlivingston6016 3 года назад

@Desert Fox ok prof

@igunashiodesu 3 года назад

A lot of people shit on this scene and rebuff it as some sort of pretentious snobbery from the filmakers (FG didn't help with this either). Yet the frame composition is amazing. The whole scene rests upon seeing beauty from the ordinary. The character saw a floating bag and saw a ballet of sorts from what everyone else would have dismissed. That's what art is all about. Shedding light, or casting shadows for that matter, on this thing we called life. The whole monologue by itself is a great piece of movie making writing. Not pretentious, self-indulgent, or trying to be too intelectual. It resonates with the audience. But asides that, the montage is a genius trick that only a medium like film can portray. You are watching a stationary camera record a handheld camera that's trying to capture a moving object in a swinging manner. You yourself as the viewer are sitting down but you feel a sense of inertia from watching that effect on film, thus unknowingly or unwillingly dancing with the bag.

@yelkhan2002 3 года назад

Well, I definitely didn't expect to see you here.

@PheibeeG 3 года назад

@@igunashiodesu Amazing explanation, I couldn't say any better. Thank you.

@aliasofanalias7448 3 года назад

@@igunashiodesu Yeah, very well said. In a sense the fact it is an ordinary occurrence, not necessarily seen as beautiful, is what makes it beautiful.

@natecw4164 Год назад

If you've never felt that force, find it. You deserve to feel that awe inspiring sense of connection and peace.

@Lion-rf8xi Год назад

Why so when other people notice your noticing it in you they can try to crush the recognition out of... my life again and again. Then because your so bad at being angry hating you just get crushed you don't even defend yourself you smile. I'm trying to learn how love has teeth....

@natecw4164 Год назад

@@Lion-rf8xi you alright there?

@Lion-rf8xi Год назад

@@natecw4164 Yeah just... There's a scene in fight club where Brad pit ses to Edward Norton after he smashes the blonde kids face at fight club. "What got into you." Edward replies "I felt like destroying something beautifull." There's a saying hide your shine. You ever notice how in the summer the insects always gather around the street lights... I always felt "that force" but some people cannot and never will. The closest they can ever come to the light is taking it away from someone shining it. You learn to hide your shine bury it like a treasure, eventually you forget where you buried it. So many people walking around with buried treasure often forgetting... Yarr there be pirates here. Remember this song from Sunday school "this little light of mine I'm gonna let it shine this little light of mine I'm gonna let it shine.... Won't let Satan hoooof it out I'm gonna let it shine let it shine let it shine. Priests are like can be very insect like attracted to the light... I knew a guy his light was buried deep and covered in the darkness a priest left him. You know they walk among us they live and they hate it when they got one that can see... You tell me what all right is and I'll tell you if I'm it.

@clanka7147 Год назад

@@Lion-rf8xi lad tf are you on

@HollowCrown45 Год назад

@@Lion-rf8xi If you know such light, then you should know as well that there is no such thing as "YOUR" life, only ONE life that contains, at the same time, nothing and everything (everything being a timely creation out of nothing). If you sense that, then you shall also know that nothing can be personal to you, because you are nothing as well (just a temporary and impermanent creation). If you can distance yourself enough from what is, to that point, considered to be "you", you may find stillness (between breathes, thoughts, intents). Dedicate it your entire being, learn to sit there when you feel troubled, and you shall discover the depth of inner-peace.

@ahmedelsheikh1987 7 лет назад

That's how despair just pushes you towards finding beauty in anything you could reach.

@nothingphenomenal1824 4 года назад

And then you find it to your surprise that everything is beautiful in this world.

@ishikamathew2976 3 года назад

I agree

@ishikamathew2976 3 года назад

@@nothingphenomenal1824 depends on how you view beauty

@voicetube 5 лет назад

One of the greatest scenes in cinematic history… But also one of the greatest musical SCORES, by the AMAZING Thomas Newman!!! … I mean, just listen to those subtle choices of instruments and the willingness to be gentle and not hit anything hard over the head with an instrument, but allowing the emotion to drive it… Indeed, subtlety; that's part of the genius of Mr. Newman.

@OfficialStevenCravis 5 лет назад

Agreed!

@paperchasindude6578 5 лет назад

ExExactly

@prittyugly86 4 года назад

That was the first thing I noticed! Thanks for the info/name I'm actually going to ask an accompanist if he can do this for us.

@scottw6704 7 месяцев назад

One of the most simplest of tunes - the range of a fourth over a bed of basic open fifths, yet it's taken its place among the most beautiful compositions from this generation.

@Bellosgirl70 2 месяца назад

Reading this made me smile. This is one of my boyfriend’s favorite films. I remember specifically this scene as we held hands and watched in the quiet of the room. Thank you, Thomas Newman. You have since become one of my favorite composers. Ever.

@loonylab3244 5 лет назад

Best scene in any movie I've ever seen. Whoever wrote this didn't just make it up. They had this experience. And it's easy to tell by reading the comments who else has had it as well.

@jacobshirley3457 5 лет назад

Not everything can be taught. Sometimes, it can only be learned.

@BocajTreplow 5 лет назад

I remember reading an interview with Alan Ball where he confirmed that he did base this scene on a personal experience.

@jacobshirley3457 5 лет назад

Jacob Wolpert, I can't see how anybody could come up with this scene without having a similar experience. It already sounds stupid on paper, and seems stupid to many people even in film.

@bigdaddy4325 5 лет назад

Alan Ball, the film's screenwriter, mentioned a similar experience he had during his Oscar speech. It was a bag floating in the wind behind the World Trade Center in NYC. That was his inspiration for his screenplay.

@willhurley1589 7 лет назад

I can see why people watch this scene on its own and would call it pretentious but in the context of the movie it's a beautiful piece of art and has to be seen within the other moving parts of the movie for it to have any meaning, it's a great scene and part of my favorite movie ever

@mojorising0071950 7 лет назад

It is not pretentious, it is simply one person's view of simple beauty that we miss every day. IMHO it is lovely and unique

@siglan6148 4 года назад

I watched this scene as a teenager and thought it was so profound. But 10 years later it makes me laugh. It's a bag in the wind. Any meaning a person gleams from it is entirely contrived. There's nothing innately beautiful about it.

@_Cato_ 2 года назад

@@siglan6148 Then you missed the entirety of the point. I pity you.

@wagondragon 9 лет назад

So impressed with Wes Bentley's performance in this scene -- the intense emotion on his face by what his character is feeling. And it gets me every time.

@SillyNag 9 лет назад

+sulu I dont think ive ever seen acting this good. to actually convince me hes a actually sociopath with no feelings. this scene is amazing.

@remiborgen8925 8 лет назад

Guys the point is that he's projecting his feelings and longings into that plastic bag and he sees hope, love and clarity. Its BRILLIANT:)

@davidellis5141 5 лет назад

This is one of the best scenes ever in cinematic history. A plastic bag ! Simplicity = Genius .

@halamadrid19791 5 лет назад

LOL you need to go to the cinema more often if you consider this one of the best in cinematic history

@erawa2740 5 лет назад

@@halamadrid19791 It is indeed one of the best scenes ever in cinematic history. David Ellis is right.

@jzwalz51robin45 5 лет назад

@@erawa2740 This was very pretentious.

@jacobshirley3457 5 лет назад

Y'all act like the director and screenwriter didn't know what they were doing. It was intentionally pretentious and profound at the same time.

@ceridwenmillington3955 Год назад

It's easy to mock the earnestness of this scene, but it definitely speaks to a lot of people. I think sometimes we've all felt that life is much more meaningful than it's easy to give credit for, and it's a healthy thing to hold on to a reverence for life and its rich possibilities

@ceridwenmillington3955 Год назад

Back watching this again while feeling pretty fearful about the future late at night. Have a feeling that I've ignored all the happiness in my life, all the beauty like this because I've been caught up in all those anxieties. I'm only human, I guess, but it's still a bit disappointing.

@Nameless82284 Год назад

It's just some trash blowing in the wind!

@robkukoc3393 4 месяца назад

Even though this kid is bizarre, I think the message is we overly complicate our lives instead of embracing the simplicity. I really respect this movie’s premise.

@belieberzare102 Год назад

Always been a sensitive soul ever since I was a kid I laugh at the jokes made about this. But as I’m sat here watching the movie this scene never ceases To make me tear up. If you feel the same know we have most likely been in limbo land for a long time and this is our first time back. We see beauty in everything 🤣

@GabyPeters95 10 лет назад

This is exactly how I feel sometimes when I'm walking home of an evening, when it's so quiet and nearly dark, it's as if i'm so overwhelmed with what I am and where I am - like my chests is going to burst with emotion.

@roberthavercroft1992 2 года назад

A rare instance of a great script, perfect soundtrack, fantastic visuals and flawless acting colliding.

@obiwankenobi661 3 года назад

this comment section is really weird. on one hand there are all the people who dont get the scene, but on the other hand you cant explain it without seeming really pretentious or fake. unfortunately you have to have a certain perspective on life to appreciate this scene. its sad so many people cant appreciate this. youre missing out.

@gewonejongen3956 3 года назад

Most beautiful scene in the world!

@Lydia-gx4pf 3 года назад

It’s a great scene, but not because it was genuinely deep.

@playerone82 3 года назад

Nicely put.

@aliasofanalias7448 3 года назад

Which hand are you on? Haha

@MarioskyWTF 7 лет назад

I cry with this shit every time I watch It. Maybe one of the most touching scenes I've ever seen. Masterpiece by Mendes.

@CristianNicolae 7 лет назад

Alan Ball deserves credit for his writing of this scene.

@86stelist 3 года назад

This is the most beautiful scene in cinematography!!!

@KaushikSarkarVer.1.0 3 года назад

“It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowing and there's this electricity in the air, you can almost hear it. Right? And this bag was just dancing with me. Like a little kid begging me to play with it. For fifteen minutes. That's the day I realized that there was this entire life behind things, and this incredibly benevolent force that wanted me to know there was no reason to be afraid, ever. Video's a poor excuse, I know. But it helps me remember... I need to remember... Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can't take it, and my heart is just going to cave in.”

@guillermija 9 лет назад

Every human being on this planet should watch this scene...

@TurkShowFan 9 лет назад

Agreed!

@Nathunden 9 лет назад

why?

9 лет назад

Conrad Henriksen Schizophrenia makes you say stupid shit as your mind rips itself apart.

@MrPrice2U 9 лет назад

+guillermija And only one out of ten gets it...Like telling blind people what red is like.

@jammadamma 8 лет назад

+Adasfsable :) Have you seen the movie? You're like a real life version of the boy's father. Are you secretly gay? Come out of the closet, my friend. Live your life.

@lucascanario4191 2 года назад

Every day I get myself getting to remember how beautiful life is. I can’t forget it.

@erikerik5706 4 года назад

I don't know why but i can heavily relate to what he says. Even in things that are purely practicall, i struggle to not see something beautiful that seems intentional. I feel like there is art everywhere. In every little thing on earth and sometimes i feel like everyone else is blind for not seeing it. Of course i have problems and dark thoughts sometimes, but even in the most ugly i mange to find so much beauty that justifies its existence. I don't think that everyone sees the world like i do, but i like the idea. I love to imagine that everyone sees the beauty but just doesn't talk about it, because he's afraid of sharing his secret. I love to see strangers on the street and wish they'd think I'm blind for not seeing the beauty.

@user-oh2tf4fe7k 4 года назад

I understand

@stoogemoedude 4 года назад

God wrote eternity on the hearts of men. We have a bigger existence than just this life. In this scene, he is trying to find somewhere to direct his worship, but he can find nowhere to direct it towards. God doesn't just care about those who believes in him but about everyone. He loves everyone

@mziqbal2003 5 лет назад

This is Infact one of the most beautiful scene of the film along with many others. The way actors and directors and all the team did it is simply splendid. This scene has a profound message and meaning for life and seeking it's existence within the individual soul being confined and caged seeking refuge out of it. ✨🌠

@USHGJDS 5 лет назад

Exactly

@isao2952 2 года назад

Is it just trash blowing in the wind, yes from one perspective, from another it demonstrates the underlying intrinsic forces that help govern everything, like a tree blowing in the wind, birds singing, or the ocean breaking on the beach, night and day, that ebbing and flowing is all around us, in the furthest reaches of the Universe to the inner workings of the neurons in our brains, air flowing in/out of our lungs. Everything is connected. Order in the chaos. I think this scene reminds us that we have a special privileged vantage point in this existence, we are the Universe experiencing itself for a few brief years. I think as you learn to meditate you are gifted moments like this, stillness that can only be described as blissful and eternal. As pretentious as it all may sound. I wished more people could see the beauty in simple things, it can bring great comfort in times of despair.

@paddymcdoogle6753 2 года назад

Time heals when reason can not.

@oWelkin 2 года назад

“but it helps to remember, i need to remember” shit had me bawling seriously this is the most touching movie i coulda ever dreamt up

@noisyrequiem 4 года назад

I cried while watching this scene

@wasitjustadream2345 4 года назад

Me too, every time i see it

@гаврилкодаша 4 года назад

I think everyone cried while all scene. Glass... yummy.

@westlake3737 5 лет назад

I see the beauty in this scene.I lost something on the way to age 44,but it’s never too late to get it back.

@_Cato_ 2 года назад

Hey Stevie, I hope you’ve gotten it back. Or, at least, you are on your way :)

@kbfurlife777 8 лет назад

This scene truly changed my life. Its the simple things folks. Open your eyes.

@kristalstanley6615 8 лет назад

its about awakening...

@kbfurlife777 7 лет назад

Stay woke fam

@sachidanandapanda00 7 месяцев назад

If you don't understand this, then don't worry, You will someday!

@jwalt8019 5 лет назад

This is one of my favorite movies. And this scene and score gets me everytime. So beautiful.

@andybooth4england 7 лет назад

Masterpiece - totally changed the way that I look at the world...

@stuvs830 9 лет назад

The role of a lifetime, perfectly played by Wes. -Congratulations to all the artists whose work created this film.

@Hellenic_Empire1980 2 года назад

The most beautiful scene ever that makes my heart blossom

@ronwalker403 4 года назад

Absolutely beautiful. My all time favourite movie scene.

@B501M 3 года назад

his diction/the way he speaks, in combination with the gentle piano keys, lightly playing along the surface of the track underneath their witnessing of the video... it's so beautiful/sad

@WoodlandAsh 3 года назад

The bag itself is not what is objectively beautiful, rather it is a catalyst for a profound reflection the protagonist of the scene ponders. He is describing a moment where he subjectively encounters a phenomena in which he attributes many qualities he identifies as beautiful, hopefully, comforting. It’s an incredibly intimate scene because it is someone expressing their unfiltered internal thoughts externally. Such thoughts often don’t make logical sense or have no actual reasonable origin, they simply are, because humans are governed by emotion and emotion is often illogical.

@StuartFuckingLittle 3 года назад

Which is an argument for why we shouldn't get too used to artificial intelligence. I know it's slightly unrelated, but there you go lol..

@StuartFuckingLittle 3 года назад

I think the same can be said about Music. It is expressing unfiltered emotion, that cannot be described through words.

@WoodlandAsh 3 года назад

I think the risk with AI is that it’s logic is unbound by emotion. If we remove emotion from human beings you’re left with a complex molecular machine that is either ordered or chaotic; sane or insane. Emotion is the vehicle of transmission that carries us out of this dichotomy and into something infinitely more ineffable, mysterious & beautiful.

@WoodlandAsh 3 года назад

And yes, music too can indeed be a facilitator as much as obscure visual phenomena. The music accompanying this clip is a perfect example.

@chrisrcowley 2 года назад

A truly beautiful moment in cinema.

@jwalt8019 Год назад

This scene gets me every time. The music, the simplicity of the message yet how powerful it is. This is still one of my favorite films of all time.

@evaa365 4 года назад

“Sometimes there’s so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can’t take it.”

@javieririarterojas2980 4 года назад

Best scene of all time. Damn, is so powerful.

@Coneman3 4 года назад

Yes it's so beautiful, but will be lost on many. It's what he's saying, what the video represents to him in his (and our) head that counts, not the video on it's own, which is ordinary really ('video's a poor excuse I know'). But only as 'ordinary' as looking up at the stars at night! The line about how much beauty he sees in the world really resonated with me a long time ago, but I only recently revisited this scene after it was mentoined in an online article. Now I can appreciate it much more, the whole scene. Great art has that power, to keep rewarding as we learn and grow. I think this scene is more powerful and deep than the rest of the movie, which I think is great overall.

@smashingairguitars 5 лет назад

This score shows how much you can do with space. How it just allows each note to gracefully fall into place. Brilliant.

@Onderwish 10 лет назад

had to perform this for as a theater monologue, nailed it 95% :D really was into it.

@johnw1329 10 лет назад

Congrats. This is a truly challenging monologue.

@selinaogorman8380 2 года назад

This scene is a beautiful scene and even though Ricky comes from a broken home and has a abuser who is his father he still sees and knows there still beauty in this broken world which yes there is still beauty and he makes the most of it.

@lunadoves 10 лет назад

Two kinds of people. People who can see what he sees and understands what he's trying to say, and the people who don't get it and are assholes to the people that do. I feel like there is a connection there.

9 лет назад

Abbie Louise Actually it's gullible clowns who are easily led (that's you) and people who are sensitive enough to see that you're a fucking simp.

@jorgefuentes5237 9 лет назад

Seán O'Nilbud that bag will always be 10 times the bag you'll ever be!

9 лет назад

Jorge Fuentes I appreciate that you aspire to be a plastic bag. That's ok, set goals you can achieve.

@arthurwright1433 9 лет назад

Abbie Louise This comment is rather ironically elitist.

@craydogdog1530 9 лет назад

I agree :)

@rr7firefly 2 года назад

This scene in the context of the entire movie reminds me of how the Bhagavad Gita was embedded inside the epic Mahabharata. The idea of bringing a profound moment of truth into a larger story is brilliant writing.

@coletanner5193 6 лет назад

Has there been a better movie since? What a classic.

@paperchasindude6578 5 лет назад

I thought Finding nemo was cool

@andrewiangillies 7 лет назад

I return to watch this every once in a while. We are conditioned to see and experience the world as fragmented, disordered, chaotic, random. Conditioned to worry and stress and fret about money, bills, work etc. This scene beautifully challenges our normal way of seeing. I'm not religious, but you don't need to be religious to see and experience the divinity and sacredness of life in its unfolding. There really is so much beauty to be seen, the sadness we feel when we watch this is that we just don't really see it that much. I imagine that many on their death beds probably get better perspective.

@maddexatkinson4170 7 лет назад

Andrew Gillies You're even more pretentious than him.

@maddexatkinson4170 7 лет назад

+Andrew Gillies What else? Also you posted the same comment 7 times somehow.

@andrewiangillies 7 лет назад

maybe, though could also be that you are confusing pretention with something else.

@andrewiangillies 7 лет назад

Tablet confusion.

@maddexatkinson4170 7 лет назад

"Why are you not stupid?" I can't tell you because I'd make me sound stupid. Look, I'm sure you see why that's stupid. Either way it is kind of annoying when somebody aludes to something and then doesn't tell you what they're aluding to because they themselves think that their statement would contradict itself.

@Morsoculi 6 лет назад

This is one of my favorite scenes EVER...It makes me remember Rainer Maria Rilke's poetry, I feel like he is an angel, like in Passolini's Teorema, like the scene when a guy is inspired by painting. This is so beautiful.

@CutieRingoJoy 5 лет назад

Actually very peaceful to watch

@iliatilev 5 лет назад

Thomas Newman is a genius!

@paperchasindude6578 5 лет назад

Ikr

@boxprincehunter2454 7 лет назад

so I just watched this film last night for the first time ever with my girl and I'm a movie head I don't know how I've never seen this one I've always seen the cover of it in like movie rental spots but I never actually went out of my way to watch it but I'm so glad my girl told me about it because this is probably one of the best movies I've ever seen

@r0z3d 7 лет назад

movie rental spots? this comment is 1 month old. What country you from?

@fridahultgren8865 8 лет назад

This is from one of the best movies I have ever seen and this scene summons up the entire movie.

@mariaifi 6 лет назад

It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowing and there's this electricity in the air, you can almost hear it. Right? And this bag was just dancing with me. Like a little kid begging me to play with it. For fifteen minutes. That's the day I realized that there was this entire life behind things, and this incredibly benevolent force that wanted me to know there was no reason to be afraid, ever. Video's a poor excuse, I know. But it helps me remember... I need to remember... Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can't take it, and my heart is just going to cave in. 💜

@overchill4106 6 лет назад

you realy dont get it..

@triciabaird2895 2 года назад

Do you ever feel….like plastic bag…..

@davidinman3584 2 года назад

All the time Tricia I dreamt I was picked up and carried Across many lands Until finally I floated slowly down And touched down softly in the Ocean The water was warm and felt slippery on my plastic skin "This is not so bad " I thought to myself Sadly just as I relaxed and settled in to my new Environment I noticed something moving slowly beneath me Rising up slowly but with obvious intent Was a Turtle

@9one9Music 2 года назад

The hand touch, means: I hear you and you're not alone. 💜 It's an acknowledgement of his pain. She helps him identify it and cope with it.

@madison-fq9mh 6 лет назад

i know it seems pretty pretentious but i really love what he is saying

@Gods_Angry_Man 6 лет назад

God: IT’S JUST SOME TRASH BLOWING IN THE WIND, DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW COMPLICATED YOUR CIRCULATORY SYSTEM IS!?

@ocesa9406 6 лет назад

Andrea Gagnon the deal here is the insignificant meaning we give to things when we use our cognitive creative part of the brain. For me is the story behind the bag, some old lady carrying the groceries to her warm cozy home. The process to make that bag. It’s something that few or a lot of people got. See things beyond the materialistic world. It’s a curse in many situations btw.

@MegaSnowJob 6 лет назад

Omar Cervantes Sánchez lol it's just a family guy reference

@ella-ruthwright9001 2 года назад

This video clip is actually the most beautiful thing. It completely changed my life looking at this and listening to the music.

@ghostofauser Год назад

This is perfection.

@garyvalentini5598 Год назад

Perhaps the most moving scene of any film ever for me. Brings me to tears and gut wrenching as I ve felt lifes losses of loved ones. To me, this is the best expression of "religion" ever vs. all the bullshit.

@n1207g Год назад

“It was one of those days where it was a minute away from snowing, and there’s this electricity in the air. You can almost hear it.”

@excrono Год назад

Dialogue written like brushstrokes on canvas, it’s a beautiful thing.

@krvr989 3 года назад

If you haven't understood this scene and want a response against it, *please* watch the ending speech of the movie

@Coneman3 3 года назад

I understood it but never understanded it 😂

@krvr989 3 года назад

@@Coneman3 thanks :)

@dannyboi162 8 лет назад

broke my heart. I wish we all could see life in such simple things. We all think life is profound and transcendental but it beauty can be seen in such simple things. How our vision is skewed

@paperchasindude6578 5 лет назад

I felt something this was so beautiful and clever

@properplank6729 9 лет назад

There is no meaning to this scene. The meaning is what you perceive it to be, and what you want it to be. That's the beauty in it. Nobody can be wrong. Your interpretation alone, helps you define who you are because you can then begin to contrast it to the way you live your life. For me, it helps me find my values; helps me see the beauty in everything- the happiness in serenity. There's a certain degree of emotion and raw life in everything, it just depends if you're willing to see it.

@Houdini774 9 лет назад

***** Beautifully said. There is so much feeling in this scene, but it becomes so much easier to mentally comprehend when we put it into words. You have a gift for expression.

@TheKpa11 9 лет назад

You know that could apply to a lot of things.......I look at this scene, a scene apparently well known enough, and I just can't stand the hypocrisy I keep hearing about when others say others are not being artistic when they have "strange" and "abstract visuals" in SOOO many other works of fiction it's ridiculous

@datura1983 9 лет назад

+Benn Leyland i can't believe you don't understand the meaning of this scene lmao. he's saying there's a "consciousness" an "awareness" behind everything and that the "intent" behind it is love. he is watching this video to "remind him" of that experience which first made him "aware" ie "awakened him" to that. the bag itself is just an object, it's the driving force BEHIND it that he is talking about. so it's not "meaningless" and not open for interpretation. he explains it quite clearly. you just need to listen to what he's saying. he's basically talking about the existence of "god" in so many words. a driving force. a life force. an energy.

@SillyNag 9 лет назад

+datura1983 well said. it makes sense now why he records everything but im still having a hard time udnerstanding why but thanks anyways.

@datura1983 9 лет назад

he records things that give him personal meaning. enlightenment. things that speak to him. in this particular video he is clearly talking about a "life force" that exists within everything. it was communicating with him. like seeing a sign... like you have a moment and you see something that really jumps out at you. speaks to you. you know it means something special.

@TheCmascagni 6 лет назад

Just a great scene with a great score.

@pbarry299 8 лет назад

I had my plastic bag moment a couple of days ago .. And it was beautiful ! It was like a ballet how the wind carried it so high up into the air and how it swirled around in a sort of dance. There is so much beauty out there ... "Look Closer"!

@Pertemba40 8 лет назад

It's a very deep and profound scene, sadly most women wouldn't accept that coming from a man because those are the traits of a feminine man, and most women want, at least subconsciously, a masculine man, a real man, at least in their own minds.

@Maria-iu7si 7 лет назад

Pertemba40 I wouldn't necessarily say that. I'm strongly attracted to dominate men, but someone like Ricky to me is really... The whole movie and Bentley's character.. I almost fell in love with him. There's nothing more attractive than a philosophical and deep mind, at least to me.

@jadeevans2848 7 лет назад

i completely agree, i am attracted to men with strong or dominant personalities but there's nothing more attractive than someone who has deep mind and thinks beyond the mediocre, i too almost fell in love with Ricky's character haha he's just so... unusual and indescribable

@shaehepburn2979 7 лет назад

Most women Petertemba40 that are in touch with all they are and not the stereotype of what a man should be would as dictated by society would feel moved beyond compare because what is being said comes from a deeper place, a humane place that transcends being a man or woman.There is no such thing as a feminine man. What you're saying is that some women find men being vulnerable weak, but those are the very women who probably help sustain the idea that real men don't cry and are suppose to be tough and hard.LOL how 1950's!!!

@SmellsLikeNow 4 года назад

A reflection on "... 'wind-hovering-over-the-water' creation, the invisible moving the visible .." led me to Starling Murmurations. Then I was brought here. So much beauty. I see no leaves on wintered tree, it's then that I need to remember.

@ben_fatherree Год назад

Understanding the dielectric nature of reality and force in motion, inertia which led to this plastic bag moving moves me.

@j0hn00arthur Год назад

Yes

@maryj.clutterbuck8630 2 года назад

A plastic bag just blew past me over on trash island and I had to watch this scene lmfaooooooo

@HollandDamien 8 лет назад

I remember how confused and uncomfortable the American audiences were when I watched this movie in the theater several times. They JUST DIDN'T GET IT that this movie was talking about the silliness, the numbing aspect, of our commercial / conformist society.

@o0julek0o 8 лет назад

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@shaehepburn2979 7 лет назад

Clearly that reply tells me how you perceive your own reality. We see things as we are, if anything this scene is a testament to that.Some people think it's pretentious, some think it's pointless (it's just a plastic bag mate)others think it's a parody of our conformist society, some see beyond that etc...And guess what? They are all right! THAT is the point of the scene.

@ratsonmyracks 5 лет назад

How good is your music when you make a trash bag blowing in the wind seem like a masterpiece to thousands of people like I don’t see the beauty in this

@666Winterdemon666 6 месяцев назад

The music always kills me.

@dag4096 Год назад

The best scene in any movie

@adamblay262 9 лет назад

one of my favourite bits in any film ever made, so deep and profound, you have to be on another level to understand the true meaning of this scene. Trust

@ksmith96 2 года назад

Wes Bentley was the best thing about this movie.

@martilack 2 года назад

He was incredible. What a film. I revisit this scene periodically and it blows me away

@danijelmiklec6603 7 месяцев назад

Such a deep scene...❤💔😢

@escalatingbarbarism5096 3 года назад

I'm just glad this exists so Not Another Teen Movie could clown on it.

@WhiteCaneV1 2 года назад

Family guy too

@piplup2009 10 лет назад

It's just some trash blowing in the wind! Do you have any idea how complex your circulatory system is?

@ricecake4588 10 лет назад

SkylitDriveFan123 Somebody failed to pick up on the reference.

@USNavyMC 10 лет назад

SkylitDriveFan123 haha pip is referencing the Family Guy version of this. I agree with your points though. :)

@ironstape9148 3 года назад

who wanna move in with someone who films a floating plastic bag for 15min straight 😭

@everything777 3 года назад

Whoooosh

@EthanJohn1986 3 года назад

“You’re ordinary”

@ironstape9148 3 года назад

@@EthanJohn1986 you're just weird

@Opethfeldt 3 года назад

That's exactly the type of person you should have in your life. Someone who can see the beauty in simple things.

@DerKlassiker73 2 года назад

When my depression needs consolation. 🌸🤗

@M.O.T.E. 3 года назад

Always tend to your tender side, because it's the best thing about you.

@user2653 3 года назад

I agree 100%

@tillinginagrave1 5 лет назад

Camera guy was ahead of his time now see videos of things worst than flying bags everywhere

@reiayami3609 Год назад

This somehow reminds me of my childhood ...

@CheerfullyCynical829 Год назад

Most pretentious drivel I've ever heard. Then again I'm 35. I can see why some stupid, lost, 16-year teenager would be so swept up with this nonsensical bullshit.

@MichealPiksRice2 Год назад

@@CheerfullyCynical829 I hope you find a cure to your unneeded anger at the world

@HollowCrown45 Год назад

I think it is something we know as a child, but forget due to how artificial our man-made world and education is. For example, a 5 year-old child might look in awe at a giant shopping mall, or an empty slot of land passing by while the parents are driving. The grown-up however, once through the transformative process of the institutions, often loses that. They see the shopping mall for its efficiency and its impacts on livelyhoods. They don't see the empty slot of land because they are "busy driving". They think in terms of efficiency and practicality instead of thinking in terms of mysticity and beauty/originality. They judge the different instead of appreciating it. If it's different, it HAS to be less efficient. /edit: There was a beautiful movie made in 2009 titled "Why Beauty Matters". I'd recommend it to you (and to @CheerfullyCynical) if you want to watch something a bit different :)

@linkenski 9 лет назад

I know the movie is mostly centered around the "meaninglessness" of 90's suburbian america, comformist lifestyle and such but this scene reaches out to every part IMO. Just timeless and something completely basic and existential.

@angc1456 3 года назад

MASTERPIECE MOVIE AND SCORE

@fatimaali7098 3 года назад

I just saw a plastic bag flying, so yeah here I am

@22424 3 года назад

Honesty is where it starts

@tomhindley1584 9 лет назад

The beauty of the grace to move freely, wispily and aimlessly

@technologic21 4 года назад

I'm not crying you're crying.

@MFM230 6 лет назад

"In order for us to experience the beauty of nature, other persons, a great event or an artistic masterpiece, we have to allow ourselves to be 'carried away' by the aesthetic phenomenon. This experience of being grasped by the beautiful is one of the clearest models we have for expressing what is involved in the intuition of the divine…We may even say our ordinary experience of the beautiful is already an encounter with ultimacy." John Haught: What is God?

@JimmyJaxJellyStax 9 лет назад

One key to understanding this scene is to " look beyond the bag" - listen to his words and allow curiosity to explore it deeper beyond cultures, beyond the conventional grounding. A moment to allow more freedom of your senses, mind, and feelings...your universe.

@datura1983 9 лет назад

+EvocativeEssence finally someone with half a brain that GETS IT LOL. it's the "driving force" behind the bag he is talking about lol. the bag itself is meaningless. he explains it quite clearly. a life force that exists within everything. it was communicating with him.

@kimmoraes 8 лет назад

When I see this, I think of how much wildlife is killed by plastic bags. I like what prw56 says about this being an unintentional parody.

@Gar96229 2 года назад

A moment of silence to those who don’t understand this scene.

@madchevy121382 7 лет назад

those moments when film is real

@acediatristitia4587 9 лет назад

I take this scene and this film to mean: don't be Atlas, don't carry the weight of the world on your shoulders, instead, let the world carry your weight. The universe, the world and all the people and things in it are collectively, infinitely more mysterious and powerful than us. We can't push life around, but when we surrender, we realize we never had to, the world is fundamentally for us, in spite of all the pain and suffering, even because of it, there is beauty, and that's how we can find beauty, even in lowly places, by changing our perspective. If the world were essentially hostile, we wouldn't be here at all. You can't swim against the current, so go with it. Man can build dams, attempt to change the course and direction of things, but ultimately, nature, the passage of time, birth, growth, death and decay, will prevail. Adversity makes life precious, challenges help us grow and give birth, the ultimate challenge is figuring out challenges themselves are not our enemies, but our friends. The bag represents you. The wind represents nature. The bag is not as autonomous as it thinks it is, it's animation is dependent on the wind, and yet, being dependent is a beautiful thing. You can't control the sun, you can't control the wind and the rain, or the millions of transactions going on around between nature and man, and man and man, and yet, all these things support us. Of course that doesn't mean we don't have to do anything to support ourselves and others, we have a part to play in it, but our role is much smaller than we tend to think.

@CaRtO0nKiD 9 лет назад

Acedia Tristitia What an incredible interpretation Acedia, this exact train of thought have been occuring in my head multiple times over the past months. And i truly see how the bag represents every single human existence and how we're unable to control the future and our own lifes... (Even though we can control some things naturally) Some people who are unaware of the knowing, that the "wind" is controlling our lifes wether we like it or not, is going to feel such pain, and be disappointed as they see it as themselves failing in life, as things are not going as planned... When in reality what they're experiencing is life itself! And that is beautiful! Can you follow my thought?

@tearnfourstar 9 лет назад

Spot on!!

@mikespindor 8 лет назад

+Acedia Tristitia Extremely well said. Thanks for that. I work as an airline pilot and have many moments like this throughout my day. Thanks again for the words.

@ButteredToastwKelly 8 лет назад

+Acedia Tristitia I *never* login and reply to RU-vid videos...but you stopped my heart. That is screenshot worthy. What an amazing, open mind you have! What a beautiful person you are!

@pedrovalente1192 8 лет назад

+Acedia Tristitia Indeed. Just don't forget that "you can't change the wind, but you can adjust your sails"

@westlake3737 3 года назад

Art is always there.You have to have an eye to see it.

@732mcnasty 7 лет назад

when they parodied this character in Not Another Teen Movie I was rolling on the floor

@Merlinthehappypig 10 лет назад

It is a really beautiful scene, but if you dumb yourself down, its really funny

@ranmakun69 10 лет назад

That is the key word for most: DUMB yourself down,

@IcyHot311 10 лет назад

Exactly. For me, when I actually listen to what he is saying...I can completely understand the beauty in his words. My mom thinks this scene is hilarious and when I bring myself out of the moment and the understanding of his words and just look at the surface of the scene I can see why it' done really funny. Idk it's hard to explain

@ranmakun69 10 лет назад

You have to take into consideration that this kid is being HORRIBLY abused by his father, an ex-marine who is in the closet, his abused mother is only a wide-eyed shell of her former self that he is constantly caring for. I'd only want to see beauty when all I see everyday is profound ugliness.

@Merlinthehappypig 9 лет назад

Wat because its somebody literally just staring in awe at a paper bag caught in the wind

@Merlinthehappypig 8 лет назад

+Wat yeah, obviously.