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It’s not slickly stylized, ironic or plasticized as so much current animation can be.

“I don’t want a plasticized world,” she said.

“We live in a society that kind of has plasticized everything we have. We’re all trying to look 25 or whatever and we’ve forgotten the beauty of the other side of that.”

Like an updated Pleistocene woolly mammoth trapped in an ice floe or ancient arthropods caught in tree resin, the plasticized clothing is caught between an industrial past and its faltering present.

The butt of a cigarette is primarily the filter, made of a type of plasticized cellulose acetate.