"Peace of mind isn't achieved without a full heart. To take the world in without its troubles is to repair the vitality we often forget to care for. Be at one with silence and let nature sway before your eyes. You will find a grasp on reality long abandoned, and a place where the heart and mind rest together beyond the stage of death. A place where even a soul can be felt..." 'Christia Mercer.' Closest beloved friend R.I.P.
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It is so sad, that we as a society have lost our sense of wonder. When I was a child, the smallest things were inherently beautiful. The littlest thing would grab my interest and hold it. Beauty was everywhere. Now I have grown cold and jaded. This video helps me to remember. I need to remember.
I love that about childhood. I remember being fascinated to see new colours when doing painting at school. One of my favourite pics is my son, still a toddler, crawling and looking at a piglet on our cousin's farm. I have a similar one of my grandson looking at a snail.
I love magic...or “illusion” and when I laugh or am amazed at a card trick I feel it keeps me young. I am 41, getting married soon, am quite mature, but still have this child-like wonder and love for the world.
"In its encounter with Nature, science invariably elicits a sense of reverence and awe. The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos"
I think alot of people who appreciate this video have gone through something very tough, and afterwards looked at their life, the world, in a deeper point of view. I know, because i'm one of them. If i'd seen this scene 10 years ago i wouldn't had understood it. Today, i do, and i love it, and i understand it in my own way. It means so much to me.
My mother never lost that sense she could find beauty in the most silliest things.. God how I miss her … She was the most beautiful and special person I have ever known.
Thank you... your comment surfaced a memory of my own mother - she was the same, as you described.. like yours, she is never gone, but with us every day..
I had depression a couple of years ago and I'd just lay in my bed for hours watching this video, one of the only things that helped me get out of my own head and get a perspective, as well as making the world seem peaceful instead of awful. Thanks for uploading!
This music reminds me of these beautiful fall evenings when I would sit with my late father. We would be outside on the porch as the leaves fell, sometimes we would run out of words and just sit there and live the moment. I think of him fondly and I miss him, and all our moments. These moments have left lasting impression on my mind, and some days I have to remember that he's been gone nearly 2 years, still feels like I found out yesterday. I still feel he's waiting for me there, on that porch as the leaves fall around him, as he says "Hey B why don't you join me". He was and is my greatest memory and best friend. My father Richard E. Custer 1958-2014
"It's interesting how certain scenes can resonate so deeply with us! The plastic bag scene in American Beauty is often seen as a beautiful metaphor for finding beauty in the mundane and the struggles of life. It evokes a sense of longing and the fleeting nature of happiness, which can definitely bring out strong emotions. It's amazing how art can connect with our feelings and experiences in such powerful ways."
My sister laughs at this scene because she thinks it is stupid. when i first saw this scene i cried. It may sound silly but this is the most beautiful thing i have ever watched. this scene made me love this movie!
Ricky Fitts: "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."
When I first saw this movie I was crying on that scene, seriously, I was so deeply touched, It was like awaking from a dream. We grow up and we get blind, we are unable to see the real beauty of the world, of the smallest things, but this realisation can help us a lot. That's why I think that movie is very important and everyone, who is bored with life should see it.
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. 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. This 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.*
This video speaks to those of us who appreciate the small things. A smile from a stranger, a warm coffee on a winter's day, the sense of wonder as a child discovers something new, the look on a loved one's face as you encourage them to speak more about their passion. The playful motion of a plastic bag. This speaks to the people who are content with the moment, because it is about what we make of it. We can be completely satisfied with what we have, who and where we are. Because we are at one with the universe. A universe that is radiating warmth, hope and togetherness. A universe that believes in us, and us it. I watch this video because I need to remember.
The way you wrote that gives me a sense of human connection in a world I sometimes feel at odds with. Thank you. I haven't worded that eloquently but I hope you get what I mean.
This scene is so beautiful, as the character says the bag is just to help you to remember the beauty of the world and something just as simple as a bag has the meaning of an entire universe and you fill yourself by just looking at it because it's beautiful, it's so beautiful that you can't comprehend it, it's just there.
Did anyone ever wonder how complex a human body is in it's functionality by atomic lever? No? I guess it's just me. How about we spend 3 min philosophy a fucking piece of plastic, while Chris Hansel is missing from this movie.
Consider the genius of Thomas Newman demonstrated by virtue of his capacity for creating so much ambient beauty through his music and thereby bringing this plastic bag to life, as part of his virtuoso of artistry.
Amazing that a simple piece of found video and a minimalistic piece of music can capture a since of Melancholy and a deep appreciation of how blessed we are that we are alive and conscious inspite of all that goes on in the world that can rob us of Serenity. This is why Newman is my very favorite film composer. He does it almost every single time. That's an amazing and awe inspiring track record of Artistry. Extra kudos go to Sam Menes for this extremely beautiful movie that truly captures the sadness that we experience in the "Hissing of Summer Lawns" (as Joni Mitchell also captured).
This was a great movie, but this scene, this is what's stayed with me. I find it very encouraging, comforting, that there are others who appreciate it too, and for similar reasons.
Awesome soundtrack from Thomas Newman. I will play it in my car when I am far away from home, in the middle of nowhere, spending the day taking photos.
It wasn't spfx hahaha it was 1999, They have a guy with blower I remember I watched the documentary from the bonus dvd features. Anyway It is so cool the magic and the beauty is there like a poem or a painting...
The day my best friend died of an overdose I listened to this song for weeks on end. And watched this scene. She was so beautiful, caring, fun and just a wonderful spirit!
Sometimes on autumn afternoons I sit under a huge tree outside my unit. I watch the red, amber, golden and brown leaves drift with the wind into the air. They dance like fireflies, twisting and turning. I don't care for thought much at this time, I just sit. Perhaps mesmerised by the effortless beauty. Perhaps I just hope that this exact moment will last a lifetime.
This is my favourite piece of music and footage , for the past few days I've been angry and depressed . I've felt like the plastic bag, being buffeted around without any control , helpless to the wind and circumstance. After many hours of watching and reflecting , I've come to realise I'm not the bag , I'm the wind . That's what I choose to be ! free to go and move wherever I want . Choice is a beautiful , it makes us appreciate what we have .
Sometimes the wind can be a fragrant , gentle breeze, that lifts you to heights you never thought possible . That is and always will be my first born , who carried me thousands of miles , over land and ocean , the day she was born . Remain fragrant and gentle my YASMIN love DAD.
I found it amazing that they could make this scene, that could be so plain and boring, into a very touching, beautiful moment. This has to be one of my favourite moments in all films ever. Amazing soundtrack and a beautiful message.
That moment you realize that you got way more thoughts out of a plastic bag floating around to very beautyful music than when watching a mainstream music video.... My mind was BLOWN
American Beauty has, for a long time been my favorite movie. This scene is so beautiful and visceral, I think because of the music, the incredible delivery, the incredible words spoken. I always thought that Ricky was the hero. My mother never understood that. I can listen to this beautiful music forever. My God
when I first heard this beautiful song, I thought to myself "this is the most beautiful song I had ever heard" Each key stroke of the piano is perfect, and the melody is as if an angel orchestrated this unserpassable piece of music. Oh and the movie......provokes such a feeling of seeing true beauty in its rawest form. A master piece!
I was always moved by this gracefully poignant moment from American Beauty. It never left my mind. I just thought of it again while studying Masterclass with Hans Zimmer. Newman's music in this movie stuck with me forever. Thank you Thomas Newman for the ability to create such a moment for me and millions of others that felt that same feeling during the now famous 'plastic bag' scene. Unforgettable.
This is one of the most beautiful pieces of music I have ever heard. I first heard it in the film, Road to Perdition, loved it then, still do. I think I always will.
i love how everyone interprets this in their own way for me, this symbolises being stuck and unable to be truly free. just when the plastic bag goes high enough and you think it's going to fly away, it comes back down to the same place. it's unable to escape this single area, and keeps floating around, in different angles, trying to get out. but eventually in the end, it falls back in the same place.
Sometimes we get so caught up in our lives only focusing on bigger problems, but if you can just take a minute to step outside and see the sky, clouds, trees, grass, flowers or even buildings... they have so much beauty in it, you just have to take a moment and not think about anything and see it.
It explains it in the description "I realize there is an entire life behind things, this incredibly benevolent force" Even a shitty plastic cheap bag that is discarded rubbish has a life behind it. the wind blowing it has a life and a story. Mundane everyday shit has a deep and incredible story. Something like that anyway
Example, if you take this movie you would say "it's just another movie else like the others", however if you watch it beyond as a single movie it will surprise you because it is full of life inside like many movies of several years ago.
The beauty of 'art' is that it's open to interpretation. I love the simplicity of this scene, but I can understand why people wouldn't see the big deal or would think it's pretentious. When I first watched it a year ago I didn't get much from it, but after the suicide of one of my best friends less than a month ago I decided to watch it again and got a whole new meaning from it. Some people said they feel like the bag is dancing and is free but I don't get that. I feel like if it was a person it'd be someone who's just experienced the loss of a loved one and is in the whirlwind of grief: being thrashed around because its lost control. It feels empty and helpless and deflated. And trapped in its own isolation. I don't feel happy or liberated when I watch it. But that's just me. My take on it could be influenced by what I'm going through in life right now.
But at the same time that’s why films are meant to be s a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images it’s not bad if anyone has another interpretation but I understand why you are feeling under that context
The simplicity of the bag floating is the main idea behind it, with so much going on in this world we are losing time everyday to stop n stare at the trivial and beautiful things happening all around us. I suppose the director is trying to capture such short living beauty hiding in the moment that we rarely take time to consider or appreciate......
Flip. Perhaps it's just the feelings of middle age with now more days behind me than ahead, that I hear this and think back over everything I've done, everywhere I've been, of life, love, loss and learning. And then to remind myself to let go of trauma and things that cannot ever be, or be again, because we all only get one crack at this. Nostalgia you wicked mistress.
this video reminds me that there can be beauty found in life's chaos, that there will always be ups and downs and curveballs, that time isn't linear and you might find yourself in the same place as you once were only to pivot to a completely new place next. that there is nowhere to go but wherever life is taking you so there's no need to rush through it
I find myself listening to this quite often. And no matter how many times I do, it always gives me a measure of peace inside me. Because even life is rough right now, I know it will get better in time. And beautiful selections such as this help remind me of that. And to me, therein lies the power of incredible music...
@@nickparsons337 same. Inspires me so much. Love it. Seen it 10s of times.. never gets old. Always learn something new when i watch it again. Masterpiece
It's not necessary that you'll see beauty in this particular picture. It's your own understanding of beauty. And we all need to learn to experience pleasure and joy in little things in our life. I have one thing in my mind that might help you to "see beauty" again like the first time in your life. How long have it been since you looked at sky? Not just glanced but really was looking and staring at sky. I found myself one day staring at sky and smiling because it was so beautiful and peaceful. I was standing like for a minute and looking at moving clouds. And I felt so little but a part of something big. It gave me the energy and motivation to keep going literally and figuratively. (Sorry for my english).
Im literally the biggest fan of sky and especially of the clouds but even they can not make me feel the same way. I was very peaceful while looking at it but then i felt lost. I felt lost in toughts and ended up felt like im the most unnecessary person in the world. So you are right. Its about understanding the beauty.
I was mesmerized by this part of this movie. It wasn't until years later I found out it was filmed at my high school. Those brick walls are embedded in my memories.
The thing that haunts me now is that I used to watch this specific scene over and over again. I even remember discussing it with my old friends, who also found this film mesmerizing. I was captivated by its simplicity and depth, its artfulness. But now, after 5 years, I accidentally came across this video again. Now I am watching it, but I feel nothing at all. It is just a bag floating around; there’s nothing more to it. I wonder what has happened to me, where did I lose that sense of wonder? It feels like once there was an open door stretching to a world full of miracles, marvels, surprises, and oddities. Now it has been closed, probably forever. Maybe that is the reason I feel so empty inside, working 9-5, six days a week, with my biggest goal being able to have a comfortable home and a normal daily life. Oh, how I miss my old carefree self
i think this song is maybe the single most emotional piece of music other than moonlight sonata by beethoven. i have actually told several people in my life this is what i want played at my funeral at the end of it. Thomas Newman is an underappreciated (by the academy) genius!
i feel like nothing really matters, we rush around on pointless tasks at times, and put more importance on things that arnt that important in the great scheme of life, we are like this bag rushing, drifting. not stopping to think and look around us
Nothing matters, literally nothing matters. Me typing, you working, you living, me living, we eating, we breathing, we killing, he killing. Once you die, it's all over that's it you will NEVER be back. What you have right now is all you'll EVER have, these 50-100 years or so is all the time that's been reserved for you. So do WHAT YOU LIKE, if you like to sit and watch TV do it. If you like to walk around and spitting on the sidewalk, do it. Because after this there's nothing.
This is the idea that this scene serves within the context of the movie. It could also mean that the real beauty lies in the freedom from any routine that this bag signifies
Me again. This was my favorite part of this film. Thomas Newman’s music sounds incredibly beautiful. I remember being inexplicably choked up at the time, and I am again, as I watch this now. It evokes the fragility and strangeness of life, as it unfolds.
The beauty of this scene is that all of us Can find beauty in it, but different beauties. It's not about understanding it, it's about feeling it, feeling it in your personal way. That's life, we can even find beauty in a bag if we want, and it's beautiful. It's beautiful because if we find beauty in this we've listened to our inner voice, to our soul. Society can tell us what it Wants, that you have to be successful to be someone and to be happy, to be like Buddy Kane (was he really happy ?). But wait a second and look at Lester, he was a loser, (sure ?) but when he died he was smiling. He was smiling because he listened to his inner voice and to his soul, and He found Beauty. This is amazing and I hope that all the people who've watched The movie could find their beauty, I'll look for it too.
I love that scene. By seeing beauty in ordinary things we are seeing deeper than conventionally beautiful things. The bag and it's movements could be metaphor, or just a deep awareness of the root to all life, natural forces. It also allows mindfulness.
The ending of this movie was powerful !!! Just shows you how fast life can end and how beautiful the world can be if you just take time to look around !!!!
I love this video. The video is one of the best i've ever seen. It makes me always sad. Many thoughts about my past life. All is so sad. I could watch it for hours, over and over again.
Listening to this in the car, creates a sense of calm in my car. Driving in my bubble whilst the world goes by....very powerful and thought provoking....and still here listening in 2021!
watching this scene is so therapeutic...really admire the director Sam Mendes to have visualised a scene like this. And music by thomas newman just nails it perfectly...
I've never seen the movie before but when i ever see something float by like a balloon or plastic bag i watch it with overwhelming curiosity of where it'll go or what will happen to it and when i lose sight of it sometimes i think its gone to heaven or somebody will find it and care for it. That's the beauty i see in this.
Saw two great movies in span of 9 hrs "Nishabd" and "American Beauty". Loved the making of these movies. Especially this dancing poly-case - there is life into everything; what we call living and non-living is our limitation, not the limitation of gorgeous nature.
How ironic. The point of this scene is to see the underlying beauty in life (hence the title of the movie) and not the superficial lie that we are told by society is "beauty" (like the pretty blond cheerleader in the movie who felt her only worth was how she was seen sexually) and to get to see this clip, I had to watch a commercial featuring the Superbowl and beer.
Yes , I believe this is one of the themes in this movie 🎥 or a good sub theme at least. There is tragedy tbroughout this movie but with that I sensed that hope and redemption was close throughout as well. The ending , . . . so sad , could make you cry .
So much of philosophy in a single take.. IN YOUR 20s you may laugh at this In your 40s you may think what the heck but in your late 70s this video is enough to drop some tears
Wow... so much beauty. 2:09 was the best part. It represents the inner struggle one has when all the obstacles we face seem to be a brick wall and we try and try and try and we fail... then we have a realization that the path we were pursuing wasn't meant for us then we move on and flow through the air with ease as if we were a plastic bag on a windy day going every which way trying to find our path, not realizing that our environment will never allow us to stay on a steady path no matter how determined we are...
10 years. That's how long it's been since I last saw this movie and now today. All because of this video. I remembered that scene, that conversation, that feeling. I can never find the right words to express my feelings for such moments but this moment needs no words, which is why it's so Perfect to me. 10 years.....wow. Thank-you.
This guy is doing alright for himself, considering this was his one movie role and he worked at a supermarket before that. I heard he and some friends are pooling their resources to get an island to retire to. It's called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
i couldn't believe that Thomas Newman could breath such magical beauty into such a simple thing as a bag. Still remains today in 2019 as one of the best movies ever made.
to search for a deep rational meaning is to miss the point, for chaos cannot be tamed by order.... to become the bag, you must first let go of all purpose or intent.... move with nature instead of against it... embrace surrender and acceptance, give up the desire to dominate and control... only when you allow yourself to be one with the universe, can you find the ability to move freely and forcefully, liberated from all shackles and constraint... only then does doing require little effort and produce the most dramatic results... only then you find that what once drained your energy with resistance is become your source of inexhaustible power...
My childhood home had a large wall bordering it and every time a soft breeze blew, it would create these dancing plastic scenes with the leaves swirling around...im 53 today, and the first time I saw this when the movie was released I cried. I felt what I knew all along, that despite what or who we are, humanity is the same everywhere
This make me feel happy and sad at the same time , and make me think about my life and where i am now and where i want to be, every time i watch this scene make me feel a very complicated feelings that hard to describe .
its a perfect metaphor for life, all floating in space, aimless, whistfully without a purpose, no one guiding us completely free to move, free to create without restraint
One of the most impressive films I've ever seen in my life. The theme song captures you and freezes you right in the moment. It makes you think of your life, your past, your present and your future all at the same time. It's so hauntingly nostalgic and the older you get it impacts you much more with every passing decade. When you're young you chase the future and when you are old you chase the past. Life is beautiful and we should cherish any moment. For me, this is a musical masterpiece because it allows me to by just hearing a combined group of instruments, playing the right keys, to go deeper into my mind and fade away in to a "lucid dream". PS. I could never replicate this with AI, neither the heart I've just put in to this comment.
Jesus, can't believe Thomas Newman has not received one oscar for his music yet. 12 nominations and no wins! dafuq is going on? If you like this piece, check out Newman's "whisper of a thrill" from the film "Meet Joe Black"
I remember seeing this for the first time at the theatre. I was mesmerized. I did not want it to end. It envoked deep feelings inside me that came to the surface about my chlldhood and my present state of mind. The people who I was with asked me what was wrong and i said nothing. Nothing is wrong. I am just overwhelmed at that scene with the plastic bag. They all laughed.
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"Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."
~Franz Kafka
..it’s difficult when you see so many pain around and feel it. Sad. But anyway .. просто напросто полюбить..
I grew old too young
"Peace of mind isn't achieved without a full heart. To take the world in without its troubles is to repair the vitality we often forget to care for.
Be at one with silence and let nature sway before your eyes. You will find a grasp on reality long abandoned, and a place where the heart and mind rest together beyond the stage of death.
A place where even a soul can be felt..."
'Christia Mercer.'
Closest beloved friend
R.I.P.
That is beautiful
Everyone has the capacity to see beauty you idiot, doesn't matter what the age.
This bag should have won the Oscar. It had one of the most memorable performances in this film.
"I couldn't have done it without the leaves and the red wall. Thankyou, thankyou.." :)
Harry Lagman cant forget the wind
Yeah, the wind should have won an Oscar for guiding the bag and leaves
One of the best moments in cinematic history
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It is so sad, that we as a society have lost our sense of wonder. When I was a child, the smallest things were inherently beautiful. The littlest thing would grab my interest and hold it. Beauty was everywhere. Now I have grown cold and jaded. This video helps me to remember. I need to remember.
I love that about childhood. I remember being fascinated to see new colours when doing painting at school. One of my favourite pics is my son, still a toddler, crawling and looking at a piglet on our cousin's farm. I have a similar one of my grandson looking at a snail.
I love magic...or “illusion” and when I laugh or am amazed at a card trick I feel it keeps me young. I am 41, getting married soon, am quite mature, but still have this child-like wonder and love for the world.
"In its encounter with Nature, science invariably elicits a sense of reverence and awe. The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos"
I can hear a song....a Logical Song by Supertramp!
this and the feather from forrest gump always get me
I think alot of people who appreciate this video have gone through something very tough, and afterwards looked at their life, the world, in a deeper point of view. I know, because i'm one of them. If i'd seen this scene 10 years ago i wouldn't had understood it. Today, i do, and i love it, and i understand it in my own way.
It means so much to me.
You just stole my thoughts and put it into words. Thanks, and have a good life.
Me, too. What you wrote describes my situation. I get what you're saying...
Something very tough 😅 I bet you just lost a job or something.
I’ve been through hell and back, this piece of music, has saved my inner soul.
This message put smile on my face i 100% agree what you said peace brother
My mother never lost that sense she could find beauty in the most silliest things.. God how I miss her … She was the most beautiful and special person I have ever known.
Thank you... your comment surfaced a memory of my own mother - she was the same, as you described.. like yours, she is never gone, but with us every day..
Nobody cares..
@@jelenajelenka8207 you miserable ass...
I had depression a couple of years ago and I'd just lay in my bed for hours watching this video, one of the only things that helped me get out of my own head and get a perspective, as well as making the world seem peaceful instead of awful. Thanks for uploading!
❤ hope everything is better now friend
Depression sometimes just needs the change of perception of it. Depression many times leads into awakening. Everything swaps in just one day.
I listen to this specific melody every weekend i return home from drinking and sometimes i cry im not gonna lie this goes straight to your soul.
@@drillinstructorfitch 😊
Me too
This music reminds me of these beautiful fall evenings when I would sit with my late father. We would be outside on the porch as the leaves fell, sometimes we would run out of words and just sit there and live the moment. I think of him fondly and I miss him, and all our moments. These moments have left lasting impression on my mind, and some days I have to remember that he's been gone nearly 2 years, still feels like I found out yesterday. I still feel he's waiting for me there, on that porch as the leaves fall around him, as he says "Hey B why don't you join me". He was and is my greatest memory and best friend. My father Richard E. Custer 1958-2014
shit
Danggggg he died young lol
He is waiting for you in eternity
That's horrible man, your dad was the same age as mine, I really need to spend more time with him, sorry to hear man, my condolences.
May he rest in peace🙏🏻
too much beauty in the world...I can't breath sometimes
Did the plastic bag fall onto your head?
+Elephant LOL XD com'on!
+blackcat138 :p
Subhan'Allah. Im glad im not the only one who feels this.
It’s just some trash blowing in the wind! Do you have any idea how complicated your circulatory system is?!
"It's hard to stay mad when there's so much beauty in the world..."
Too bad that beauty gets destroyed everyday by capitalistic greed.
One could also argue that it’s rather easy to stay mad when that beauty gets destroyed…
Though I try to focus on the former
"It's interesting how certain scenes can resonate so deeply with us! The plastic bag scene in American Beauty is often seen as a beautiful metaphor for finding beauty in the mundane and the struggles of life. It evokes a sense of longing and the fleeting nature of happiness, which can definitely bring out strong emotions. It's amazing how art can connect with our feelings and experiences in such powerful ways."
after all these years I've heard this tune, it still melts my hearts and brings tears in my eyes.
Exactly
@The Oxxidental Oxx in the ocean
So all the people who have connected with this video, do you ever gaze into the stars at night and feel something similar?
Yup.
+jkd1984 Personally I get more vibes when I gaze into the star than watching some trash blowing in the wind
+jkd1984 you can feel it anywhere ,where you meet blint people( if you know what i mean )
+jkd1984 Yup !
+andreshadow2 It is all about imagination
I just saw this movie for the first time. Can't handle all of that genius in one night. It was spectacular.
Vivi33 bravo.
Vivi33 good call.It took me3days to realise this was my fav film i had ever watched.
Eva Flynn .
Serious classic
My sister laughs at this scene because she thinks it is stupid. when i first saw this scene i cried. It may sound silly but this is the most beautiful thing i have ever watched. this scene made me love this movie!
dont talk down on your sister man familys all you got in the end trust me
I THOUGHT THE SAME
He or she didnt talk down on their sister just said she laughed at the scene
@xRememberBluex: Some people are just not ready. Some will never be. Just give her time.
Dont worry, your sister just dont know yet.
She might know someday... if she is lucky
This piece always makes me reflect on how much life hurts, but yet how there is so much to live for
I agree with you. Greetings from Russia.
Exactly
This is not only a plastic bag dancing, this is ART
Is as artistic as a banana taped on a wall. I am sarcastic btw
This is the Life.
You are extraordinarily pretentious.
How were they able to train that bag?
Ricky Fitts: "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."
+keaedz -- thank you for that transcription. Food for thought now and later.
It's been so many years now.....
When I first saw this movie I was crying on that scene, seriously, I was so deeply touched, It was like awaking from a dream. We grow up and we get blind, we are unable to see the real beauty of the world, of the smallest things, but this realisation can help us a lot. That's why I think that movie is very important and everyone, who is bored with life should see it.
That scene was so deep it still is now
Yes! That’s it, 👌
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. 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.
This 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.*
there is no reason to be afraid.i liked that,you put me in a fairytale mood..
+Adriana Boldea It's a quote from the movie.
+Austin Carter thanks for noticing.
+Austin Carter it's so much more than a quote
This entire movie was VISUAL GENIUS! Most people don't see this bag moment as genius! It was genius! The movie American Beauty was GENIUS!
This video speaks to those of us who appreciate the small things. A smile from a stranger, a warm coffee on a winter's day, the sense of wonder as a child discovers something new, the look on a loved one's face as you encourage them to speak more about their passion. The playful motion of a plastic bag. This speaks to the people who are content with the moment, because it is about what we make of it. We can be completely satisfied with what we have, who and where we are. Because we are at one with the universe. A universe that is radiating warmth, hope and togetherness. A universe that believes in us, and us it. I watch this video because I need to remember.
The way you wrote that gives me a sense of human connection in a world I sometimes feel at odds with. Thank you. I haven't worded that eloquently but I hope you get what I mean.
I have felt like this my whole life, even as a child,everything, melancholy, everything beautiful.
For me, one of the best scenes ever filmed. The composition of both the scenes and the music is stunningly beautiful.
This scene is so beautiful, as the character says the bag is just to help you to remember the beauty of the world and something just as simple as a bag has the meaning of an entire universe and you fill yourself by just looking at it because it's beautiful, it's so beautiful that you can't comprehend it, it's just there.
Did anyone ever wonder how complex a human body is in it's functionality by atomic lever? No? I guess it's just me. How about we spend 3 min philosophy a fucking piece of plastic, while Chris Hansel is missing from this movie.
Consider the genius of Thomas Newman demonstrated by virtue of his capacity for creating so much ambient beauty through his music and thereby bringing this plastic bag to life, as part of his virtuoso of artistry.
i dont know how this scene makes me feel so much and it feels like when u just get lost in toughts looking at something so ordinary and simple
Amazing that a simple piece of found video and a minimalistic piece of music can capture a since of Melancholy and a deep appreciation of how blessed we are that we are alive and conscious inspite of all that goes on in the world that can rob us of Serenity.
This is why Newman is my very favorite film composer. He does it almost every single time. That's an amazing and awe inspiring track record of Artistry. Extra kudos go to Sam Menes for this extremely beautiful movie that truly captures the sadness that we experience in the "Hissing of Summer Lawns" (as Joni Mitchell also captured).
This was a great movie, but this scene, this is what's stayed with me. I find it very encouraging, comforting, that there are others who appreciate it too, and for similar reasons.
Awesome soundtrack from Thomas Newman. I will play it in my car when I am far away from home, in the middle of nowhere, spending the day taking photos.
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The beauty of a scene you cannot plan.
except with a spfx crew
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Then the 'beauty of a scene you cannot plan' is gone.
I think the bag was an actor.
Zarkow The beauty of this song even moreso.
It wasn't spfx hahaha it was 1999, They have a guy with blower I remember I watched the documentary from the bonus dvd features. Anyway It is so cool the magic and the beauty is there like a poem or a painting...
I want this played at my funeral. I think it would be fitting.
Agreed!
Lol, why caring about your funeral. How does it matter
I agree. It speaks volumes for those who can see it
I played this at my mum's funeral.. still hard to hear it.. but..oh so beautiful...
Also me
The day my best friend died of an overdose I listened to this song for weeks on end. And watched this scene. She was so beautiful, caring, fun and just a wonderful spirit!
Sometimes on autumn afternoons I sit under a huge tree outside my unit. I watch the red, amber, golden and brown leaves drift with the wind into the air. They dance like fireflies, twisting and turning. I don't care for thought much at this time, I just sit. Perhaps mesmerised by the effortless beauty. Perhaps I just hope that this exact moment will last a lifetime.
This is my favourite piece of music and footage , for the past few days I've been angry and depressed . I've felt like the plastic bag, being buffeted around without any control , helpless to the wind and circumstance.
After many hours of watching and reflecting , I've come to realise I'm not the bag , I'm the wind . That's what I choose to be ! free to go and move wherever I want . Choice is a beautiful , it makes us appreciate what we have .
Sometimes the wind can be a fragrant , gentle breeze, that lifts you to heights you never thought possible . That is and always will be my first born , who carried me thousands of miles , over land and ocean , the day she was born .
Remain fragrant and gentle my YASMIN love DAD.
I found it amazing that they could make this scene, that could be so plain and boring, into a very touching, beautiful moment. This has to be one of my favourite moments in all films ever. Amazing soundtrack and a beautiful message.
That moment you realize that you got way more thoughts out of a plastic bag floating around to very beautyful music than when watching a mainstream music video.... My mind was BLOWN
American Beauty has, for a long time been my favorite movie. This scene is so beautiful and visceral, I think because of the music, the incredible delivery, the incredible words spoken. I always thought that Ricky was the hero. My mother never understood that. I can listen to this beautiful music forever. My God
One of the profoundest moments in cinema.
There is a life behind the secret world of objects.
when I first heard this beautiful song, I thought to myself "this is the most beautiful song I had ever heard"
Each key stroke of the piano is perfect, and the melody is as if an angel orchestrated this unserpassable piece of music.
Oh and the movie......provokes such a feeling of seeing true beauty in its rawest form.
A master piece!
I was always moved by this gracefully poignant moment from American Beauty. It never left my mind. I just thought of it again while studying Masterclass with Hans Zimmer. Newman's music in this movie stuck with me forever. Thank you Thomas Newman for the ability to create such a moment for me and millions of others that felt that same feeling during the now famous 'plastic bag' scene. Unforgettable.
This is one of the most beautiful pieces of music I have ever heard. I first heard it in the film, Road to Perdition, loved it then, still do. I think I always will.
i love how everyone interprets this in their own way
for me, this symbolises being stuck and unable to be truly free. just when the plastic bag goes high enough and you think it's going to fly away, it comes back down to the same place. it's unable to escape this single area, and keeps floating around, in different angles, trying to get out. but eventually in the end, it falls back in the same place.
Sometimes we get so caught up in our lives only focusing on bigger problems, but if you can just take a minute to step outside and see the sky, clouds, trees, grass, flowers or even buildings... they have so much beauty in it, you just have to take a moment and not think about anything and see it.
Pray for the ones who haven't found this beauty yet.
Cinephile I don't understand what it means can u please explain it 2 me
It explains it in the description
"I realize there is an entire life behind things, this incredibly benevolent force"
Even a shitty plastic cheap bag that is discarded rubbish has a life behind it. the wind blowing it has a life and a story. Mundane everyday shit has a deep and incredible story.
Something like that anyway
Example, if you take this movie you would say "it's just another movie else like the others", however if you watch it beyond as a single movie it will surprise you because it is full of life inside like many movies of several years ago.
Cinephile like my dad
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The beauty of 'art' is that it's open to interpretation. I love the simplicity of this scene, but I can understand why people wouldn't see the big deal or would think it's pretentious. When I first watched it a year ago I didn't get much from it, but after the suicide of one of my best friends less than a month ago I decided to watch it again and got a whole new meaning from it. Some people said they feel like the bag is dancing and is free but I don't get that. I feel like if it was a person it'd be someone who's just experienced the loss of a loved one and is in the whirlwind of grief: being thrashed around because its lost control. It feels empty and helpless and deflated. And trapped in its own isolation. I don't feel happy or liberated when I watch it. But that's just me. My take on it could be influenced by what I'm going through in life right now.
Very well said .. Thank you 🙏🏼
Interesting. The way I saw this part of the movie was that it's not about the bag, but the human ability of perceiving beauty.
But at the same time that’s why films are meant to be s a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images it’s not bad if anyone has another interpretation but I understand why you are feeling under that context
The simplicity of the bag floating is the main idea behind it, with so much going on in this world we are losing time everyday to stop n stare at the trivial and beautiful things happening all around us. I suppose the director is trying to capture such short living beauty hiding in the moment that we rarely take time to consider or appreciate......
How can you not remember this scene when you see plastic bag frivolously dancing in the wind .. How touching and moving !!
Flip. Perhaps it's just the feelings of middle age with now more days behind me than ahead, that I hear this and think back over everything I've done, everywhere I've been, of life, love, loss and learning. And then to remind myself to let go of trauma and things that cannot ever be, or be again, because we all only get one crack at this. Nostalgia you wicked mistress.
this video reminds me that there can be beauty found in life's chaos, that there will always be ups and downs and curveballs, that time isn't linear and you might find yourself in the same place as you once were only to pivot to a completely new place next. that there is nowhere to go but wherever life is taking you so there's no need to rush through it
I find myself listening to this quite often. And no matter how many times I do, it always gives me a measure of peace inside me. Because even life is rough right now, I know it will get better in time. And beautiful selections such as this help remind me of that. And to me, therein lies the power of incredible music...
That bag is my screen saver...People always ask about it. I tell them look closer.
Awesome. Hands down my favorite movie of all time. Fills me with awe every time I watch it. Just an incredible and timeless experience.
@@nickparsons337 same. Inspires me so much. Love it. Seen it 10s of times.. never gets old. Always learn something new when i watch it again. Masterpiece
That’s very clever ...how’s that working out for you ?
DMC Run not so well lol
Look closer and see a bag?
It's not necessary that you'll see beauty in this particular picture. It's your own understanding of beauty. And we all need to learn to experience pleasure and joy in little things in our life.
I have one thing in my mind that might help you to "see beauty" again like the first time in your life. How long have it been since you looked at sky? Not just glanced but really was looking and staring at sky. I found myself one day staring at sky and smiling because it was so beautiful and peaceful. I was standing like for a minute and looking at moving clouds. And I felt so little but a part of something big. It gave me the energy and motivation to keep going literally and figuratively.
(Sorry for my english).
Im literally the biggest fan of sky and especially of the clouds but even they can not make me feel the same way. I was very peaceful while looking at it but then i felt lost. I felt lost in toughts and ended up felt like im the most unnecessary person in the world. So you are right. Its about understanding the beauty.
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Jesus loves you and so do I 💕
That's funny. I was just looking at the sky right now and thought this song would fit the moment, thats why I have played it
I was mesmerized by this part of this movie. It wasn't until years later I found out it was filmed at my high school. Those brick walls are embedded in my memories.
So dreamy, sad and yet beautiful. So hopeless and yet hopeful. It brings tears to my eyes, and yet I have to smile😳😟😭😀❤
The thing that haunts me now is that I used to watch this specific scene over and over again. I even remember discussing it with my old friends, who also found this film mesmerizing. I was captivated by its simplicity and depth, its artfulness. But now, after 5 years, I accidentally came across this video again. Now I am watching it, but I feel nothing at all. It is just a bag floating around; there’s nothing more to it. I wonder what has happened to me, where did I lose that sense of wonder? It feels like once there was an open door stretching to a world full of miracles, marvels, surprises, and oddities. Now it has been closed, probably forever. Maybe that is the reason I feel so empty inside, working 9-5, six days a week, with my biggest goal being able to have a comfortable home and a normal daily life. Oh, how I miss my old carefree self
It's really sad, isn't it
This somehow brings me back to my childhood.
One of the best movies ever made without doubt, it's magic, perfect.
I watched this movie years ago, but this scene never fails to make me cry. Its so beautiful, and has so many interpretations, im just speechless...
A metaphor for what our life is. Wonderful song.
i think this song is maybe the single most emotional piece of music other than moonlight sonata by beethoven. i have actually told several people in my life this is what i want played at my funeral at the end of it.
Thomas Newman is an underappreciated (by the academy) genius!
I connect to his compositions more then John Williams.
i feel like nothing really matters, we rush around on pointless tasks at times, and put more importance on things that arnt that important in the great scheme of life, we are like this bag rushing, drifting. not stopping to think and look around us
Nothing matters, literally nothing matters. Me typing, you working, you living, me living, we eating, we breathing, we killing, he killing. Once you die, it's all over that's it you will NEVER be back. What you have right now is all you'll EVER have, these 50-100 years or so is all the time that's been reserved for you. So do WHAT YOU LIKE, if you like to sit and watch TV do it. If you like to walk around and spitting on the sidewalk, do it. Because after this there's nothing.
This is the idea that this scene serves within the context of the movie. It could also mean that the real beauty lies in the freedom from any routine that this bag signifies
Well said. I also believe that...
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I felt that the only reason we are here is to worship God, repent, forgive, and spread his word.
when i was watching this movie, this was the scene that made me cry...
PPplubploy Me too!
What movie is this?
+Tony Soprano It's literally in the video title.
Me too!!
+PPplubploy me too!! ..ALWAYS... the pure life explodes in this scene...
20 years on and still gets me deep inside , the first time I seen this I new I wasn’t weird
Me again. This was my favorite part of this film. Thomas Newman’s music sounds incredibly beautiful. I remember being inexplicably choked up at the time, and I am again, as I watch this now. It evokes the fragility and strangeness of life, as it unfolds.
It's music like this you listen to when you're with your significant other in your apartment and watch the snowfall come down.
The beauty of this scene is that all of us Can find beauty in it, but different beauties. It's not about understanding it, it's about feeling it, feeling it in your personal way. That's life, we can even find beauty in a bag if we want, and it's beautiful. It's beautiful because if we find beauty in this we've listened to our inner voice, to our soul. Society can tell us what it Wants, that you have to be successful to be someone and to be happy, to be like Buddy Kane (was he really happy ?). But wait a second and look at Lester, he was a loser, (sure ?) but when he died he was smiling. He was smiling because he listened to his inner voice and to his soul, and He found Beauty. This is amazing and I hope that all the people who've watched The movie could find their beauty, I'll look for it too.
I love that scene. By seeing beauty in ordinary things we are seeing deeper than conventionally beautiful things. The bag and it's movements could be metaphor, or just a deep awareness of the root to all life, natural forces. It also allows mindfulness.
The ending of this movie was powerful !!! Just shows you how fast life can end and how beautiful the world can be if you just take time to look around !!!!
I love this video. The video is one of the best i've ever seen. It makes me always sad. Many thoughts about my past life. All is so sad. I could watch it for hours, over and over again.
The whole scene is the definition of peace and serenity!!!
"It was one of those days... one of those days."
...when it's a minute away from snowing.
And this bag was just dancing with me like a little kid begging me to play with it.
Indeed
Jade a very nice comment ... impressed
Yes, its today
Listening to this in the car, creates a sense of calm in my car. Driving in my bubble whilst the world goes by....very powerful and thought provoking....and still here listening in 2021!
one of the most beautiful moments in any film of the last 50 years.
watching this scene is so therapeutic...really admire the director Sam Mendes to have visualised a scene like this. And music by thomas newman just nails it perfectly...
I've never seen the movie before but when i ever see something float by like a balloon or plastic bag i watch it with overwhelming curiosity of where it'll go or what will happen to it and when i lose sight of it sometimes i think its gone to heaven or somebody will find it and care for it. That's the beauty i see in this.
Thomas Newman - Genius.
Wheres his Oscar
One of the most beautiful cinematic scenes
Wonderful harmonies in this Thomas Newman piece, gives me goosebumps 😍
Saw two great movies in span of 9 hrs "Nishabd" and "American Beauty". Loved the making of these movies. Especially this dancing poly-case - there is life into everything; what we call living and non-living is our limitation, not the limitation of gorgeous nature.
How ironic. The point of this scene is to see the underlying beauty in life (hence the title of the movie) and not the superficial lie that we are told by society is "beauty" (like the pretty blond cheerleader in the movie who felt her only worth was how she was seen sexually) and to get to see this clip, I had to watch a commercial featuring the Superbowl and beer.
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Yes , I believe this is one of the themes in this movie 🎥 or a good sub theme at least. There is tragedy tbroughout this movie but with that I sensed that hope and redemption was close throughout as well. The ending , . . . so sad , could make you cry .
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So much of philosophy in a single take..
IN YOUR 20s you may laugh at this
In your 40s you may think what the heck but in your late 70s this video is enough to drop some tears
I'm crying and I'm 20
Wow... so much beauty. 2:09 was the best part. It represents the inner struggle one has when all the obstacles we face seem to be a brick wall and we try and try and try and we fail... then we have a realization that the path we were pursuing wasn't meant for us then we move on and flow through the air with ease as if we were a plastic bag on a windy day going every which way trying to find our path, not realizing that our environment will never allow us to stay on a steady path no matter how determined we are...
We can find meaning in just about anything.. But I suppose the meaning you create is just as real as anything in this world.
10 years. That's how long it's been since I last saw this movie and now today.
All because of this video. I remembered that scene, that conversation, that feeling.
I can never find the right words to express my feelings for such moments but this moment needs no words, which is why it's so Perfect to me.
10 years.....wow.
Thank-you.
Une Perle Musicale pure merveille Merci Thanks for posting
This is perhaps the most beautiful thing I've seen...
Looks like a music from Doctor house when a patient dies. Love it!
This guy is doing alright for himself, considering this was his one movie role and he worked at a supermarket before that.
I heard he and some friends are pooling their resources to get an island to retire to. It's called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
Me Auntie Nora That's what happens to the poor bags in your house when you have wind for 5 minutes! Not to mention the ripped tennis balls...
i couldn't believe that Thomas Newman could breath such magical beauty into such a simple thing as a bag. Still remains today in 2019 as one of the best movies ever made.
The best simple melody of a film.
Wonderful and beautiful.
to search for a deep rational meaning is to miss the point, for chaos cannot be tamed by order....
to become the bag, you must first let go of all purpose or intent....
move with nature instead of against it...
embrace surrender and acceptance, give up the desire to dominate and control...
only when you allow yourself to be one with the universe, can you find the ability to move freely and forcefully, liberated from all shackles and constraint...
only then does doing require little effort and produce the most dramatic results...
only then you find that what once drained your energy with resistance is become your source of inexhaustible power...
'Chaos can not be tamed by order' is quite deep. we can't understand.
wait..
DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW COMPLEX YOUR CIRCULATORY SYSTEM IS???
FAMILY GUY!!
Fucking. Yes
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That’s why I came here
God is a little ticked!
Great scene, and even better music...Amen.
My childhood home had a large wall bordering it and every time a soft breeze blew, it would create these dancing plastic scenes with the leaves swirling around...im 53 today, and the first time I saw this when the movie was released I cried. I felt what I knew all along, that despite what or who we are, humanity is the same everywhere
This make me feel happy and sad at the same time , and make me think about my life and where i am now and where i want to be, every time i watch this scene make me feel a very complicated feelings that hard to describe .
its a perfect metaphor for life,
all floating in space,
aimless, whistfully
without a purpose,
no one guiding us completely free to move,
free to create without restraint
You will be picked up. Thrown away. Lift up in the sky. Fall down to the ground. Get stuck in a corner. Glide along.
One of the most impressive films I've ever seen in my life. The theme song captures you and freezes you right in the moment. It makes you think of your life, your past, your present and your future all at the same time. It's so hauntingly nostalgic and the older you get it impacts you much more with every passing decade. When you're young you chase the future and when you are old you chase the past. Life is beautiful and we should cherish any moment.
For me, this is a musical masterpiece because it allows me to by just hearing a combined group of instruments, playing the right keys, to go deeper into my mind and fade away in to a "lucid dream".
PS. I could never replicate this with AI, neither the heart I've just put in to this comment.
Life's fragile dance throughout the echelons of time...right there❤
Do you ever feel like a plastic bag, floating in the wind?
No
When I was a child...
i wish
Do you ever feel like a tampon? In a good place at the wrong time...
MrWillpower88
Yes.... But it's never a bad time..
Year after year I keep watching this scene and makes me imagine a better world
Jesus, can't believe Thomas Newman has not received one oscar for his music yet. 12 nominations and no wins! dafuq is going on?
If you like this piece, check out Newman's "whisper of a thrill" from the film "Meet Joe Black"
Or "Haiku" from "Finding Nemo" that's a really good one too!
***** That actually makes a lot of sense now I think about it
Bry92 I say... when you capable of creating something like this, should you really care about awards and what other people think of your work?
Some of the Shawshank score is like this.
Antonio Giacca - True. The fact that he was nominated 12 times is recognition enough.
I remember seeing this for the first time at the theatre. I was mesmerized. I did not want it to end. It envoked deep feelings inside me that came to the surface about my chlldhood and my present state of mind. The people who I was with asked me what was wrong and i said nothing. Nothing is wrong. I am just overwhelmed at that scene with the plastic bag. They all laughed.
I feel at peace when I hear this nostalgic music. I've been through a lot in my life so far and I pray that every human being is is at peace!
symbolism at its best. this is one of my all time favorite movies.