This film, Consumed: Identity and Anxiety in the Age of Plenty is about how consumerism has impacted the market. Instead of telling people who we are, we begun to show who we are through items and services. We chase status and interact differently with people of other status. This generation is living in a golden age, yet have mental illnesses and addiction becoming more common. While we are focusing so much on materialistic desires we ignore the damage we’re inflicting on our planet. In a sense the human race is like cancer to the planet we call home. We have a population problem that the earth cannot buttress. With the way we’re using resources we’ll run out, they are not unlimited and some even harm the planet. Yet we choose to ignore which
