This doesn't last, sadly
Miss Daizi
is a 2009 animated short film by the Chinese animation company Pingpig Studio. Miss Daizi chronicles the story of a plastic bag and a cup, which ends on very sad note, when the cup dies and dissolves and she doesn't, as she can't biodegrade, leaving her with a horrible reminder.Tropes for Miss Daizi:
- Animesque: Some degree with the artstyle.
- Animate Inanimate Object: Miss Daizi and the Cup.
- Awful Truth: Cup's death is set up to be this.
- Blush Stickers: Daizi, has these as per her bag designs
- Black Comedy: To some degree with the deaths of the cockroach, cat, and the fish at different points.
- Driven to Suicide: The titular Miss Daizi when she realizes that she cannot biodegrade (like the Cup did). She fails.
- Green Aesop: Specifically, about plastic pollution, as plastic doesn't break down like paper does and plastic bags tend to be a common form of this kind of pollution.
- Mayfly–December Romance: While they cannot really age (in the sense that humans/animals do), this fits to some degree, as Miss Daizi outlives Cup, as the latter biodegrades, while she is depicted as not being able to biodegrade.
- No Name Given: The Cup. Viewers generally call him "Cup"
- Silence Is Golden: Neither the cup or Miss Daizi speak outside of squeaking noises.
- Single Tear: Miss Daizi in the beginning when she leaps off of a building.
- Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Plastic bags can be quite durable but, durability aside, they can get worn out, thus, when Daizi gets a hole, she gets tossed out.
- Together in Death: Miss Daizi attempts this and, as we can see, she fails.
- Who Wants to Live Forever?: This comes naturally considering the titular's circumstances.
