Wonderful review! I took the bag to be a "stop and smell the roses" which is what Carol does early on in the movie but is more concerned with "keepin up with the jones'"
Great monologue. I'm getting older and I wish I wasn't so fixated on money and wish I would have lived more. Unfortunately I don't have that oomph Spacey had, and he was terrific. Do you think he'll ever appear in a big movie again?
If there was one weird part it was when Ricky looked at Spacey's dead face and smiled like a lunatic.

I can get that too, because it was perhaps didactic in presentation, that it could also be considered insulting the intelligence of the viewer with a lack of subtlety.
Thing is, I got the plastic bag metaphor point, even before the movie. I liked how it made an effort to make a point here.
For many, its just a plastic bag caught up in the wind and it was perhaps a cheap-shot allegory, yet one that could be easily understood to make it into something more.
You have plenty of substance in you already Mr. H. It was a film that perhaps wasn't made or needed for you.
I guess it had a subversiveness about it that I liked as well, but for all the right reasons.
I haven't seen for yonks. Perhaps if I view again, I may take a different angle on it.
Norman! What did you put in my tea?

There wasn't a lot left to interpretation.
"My life is over. I might as well dance with Johnny Slash!"

…the movie felt kind of pat to me. And I have to say that the plastic bag that kept showing up did nothing for me.
The movie felt like a middle-of-the-road melodrama…
Do you feel like it was sledgehammering a point, instead of allowing it to be born of a more natural and organic approach to its theme Mr. Hutch?
I don't see much pat about its presentation, just something that I thought was very original and aware and touched on many aspects of our controlled and cloistered lives that we take for granted.
We place so much meaning on material impermanence, when the scope of it all is contained in the tiniest details. Look closer, as the tag line says.
I think Spacey really nailed his little monologue at the end when he expressed this after his demise and the inflection he used was sublime.
I don't mean to condescend by my explaining the film, yet it is also very fascinating to me how this film affects many people differently. It does have a tendency to push buttons and it upsets many as well.
One old guy I worked with, his wife told him the film upset her, another lady I know dismissed it because she judged Spacey's creepy actions and I myself found it refreshing, inspiring and insightful overall.
People are so easily offended and I just don't think they get context.
Norman! What did you put in my tea?

It's hard to say. Maybe something super banal life how like is always in motion. Or, just when you are least expecting it, look down at your feet and there's life.
"My life is over. I might as well dance with Johnny Slash!"

What was the significance of the plastic bag?

I voted no. I thought Kevin Spacey was very good in his part, but other than that the movie felt kind of pat to me. And I have to say that the plastic bag that kept showing up did nothing for me.
The movie felt like a middle-of-the-road melodrama to me.
"My life is over. I might as well dance with Johnny Slash!"

You'd do anything for money, but I doubt you would even get 10cents for your saggy black boobs.
Norman! What did you put in my tea?

Donna Acacia said...
Why do you keep impersonating me????
You don't know me. You don't know what I look like either. Go away.
Why are you replying to yourself? Now that is creepier than Lester.
Norman! What did you put in my tea?

Why do you keep impersonating me????
You don't know me. You don't know what I look like either. Go away.

If we lost some weight and cut our hair, we would look a lot like her.

That actress in the meme is a ****ing bitch! I'd like to slap her.
Some black actors will take any acting gig for money. Looks like she did.

I call out the toxicity, except you thrive on it.
Norman! What did you put in my tea?

You're currently the most toxic person here.

Oh, wonders never cease!
Another stinky toxic sock…..
Norman! What did you put in my tea?

Toasted Cheese is a perverted homosexual into pedophilia! It's a known fact.

ToastedCheese said...
Projection!
Rationality has never been your strong point, neither has self-awareness…
Do you even know wtf you're talking about?

Donna Acacia said...
you might be good at discussing film but your stupidity shines brightly on all other subjects. The worst thing about you is that you're incapable of having a rational debate with anyone.
Stay on the boards about movies, so that you're not embarrassing yourself anymore.
Projection!
Rationality has never been your strong point, neither has self-awareness…
Norman! What did you put in my tea?

ToastedCheese said...
Am I supposed to be upset because you hate me….
Speaka da English woman!!!
No-one cares about your toxic phony outrage over a fictional scenario.
you might be good at discussing film but your stupidity shines brightly on all other subjects. The worst thing about you is that you're incapable of having a rational debate with anyone.
Stay on the boards about movies, so that you're not embarrassing yourself anymore.

Donna Acacia said...
I didn't because I hate you. And anyway nobody important is reading your review.
Ephebophilia! Happy now?
Am I supposed to be upset because you hate me….
Speaka da English woman!!!
No-one cares about your toxic phony outrage over a fictional scenario.
Norman! What did you put in my tea?

ToastedCheese said...
Well then, you should have said inappropriate in the first place, instead of trying to grandstand of your conflation for attention.
That you pretend to care with your faux outrage, speaks volumes about your phoniness and trollishness.
I didn't because I hate you. And anyway nobody important is reading your review.
Ephebophilia! Happy now?

ToastedCheese said...
Well then, you should have said inappropriate in the first place, instead of trying to grandstand of your conflation for attention.
That you pretend to care with your faux outrage, speaks volumes about your phoniness and trollishness.
Next time write that with more feeling!! I don't think we quite get how much you hate that woman. Everything she does you will make wicked and sinister.
If she puts on her shoes, it means she's up to trouble. Right?

Well then, you should have said inappropriate in the first place, instead of trying to grandstand of your conflation for attention.
That you pretend to care with your faux outrage, speaks volumes about your phoniness and trollishness.
Norman! What did you put in my tea?

Wut? Even if you disagreed with how I used the word pedophilia, Lester still had a very inappropriate sexual attraction to a high school student. He was over 40 years old, married and had child of his own.