Anthropocene challenges the impoverished imagination that so easily links human civilization to the production of goods. Starting with images of literal mountains of garbage, the documentary captures the rarely seen landscape behind the glamorous cities and affluent countries. Director Lim Ki-woong follows the garbage dump step-by-step with faithful reporting, but he never turns away from the people who make it their home. The elderly picking up the waste, the migrant workers at the sorting plant, and the citizens fighting over the landfill are shown in a compelling way to show that garbage contains all the problems of modern civilization. And it forces us to ask the question. Where is this civilization headed?