A Day in the Life of a Plastic Cup

“There’s a Buddhist notion of the miraculous within the mundane, and I think we certainly live in a culture that encourages us not to look for that.” -Alan Ball, American Beauty A short film shot from the perspective of a plastic cup we are narrated about its mundane life and how it is left out in the world. The cup is personified and as the audience we feel empathy for it. We begin to feel worried, will it get crushed, will it survive?