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Genres are DramaDocument Produced in 2011, USA, UK
Available Quality: DivX
Rating: 7.8 out of 10 (4794 votes)
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| Cindy Baer | Moica | Hiroaki Aikawa | Caryn Waechter |
| Bob Liginski Jr. | Drake Shannon | Reid Martin Basso | |
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| Kevin Macdonald | Natalia Andreadis | ||
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Plot Summary:
What do you get when you ask the people of the world to chronicle a single day in their lives? You get 80,000 submissions, 4500 hours of footage, from 192 countries. Kevin Macdonald has taken this raw material, all shot on July 24, 2010, and created a 90-minute paean to what it means to be human in the world today.
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ip man
25 May 2012
Making the ordinary extraordinary
Many of us struggle to experience something beautiful and extraordinaryin our lives, trying to do things which allow us to feel a littlespecial in the midst of our daily lives. What this film shows us isexactly the opposite - that the extraordinary in our lives lies in themidst of our daily activities, if we can just allow ourselves to acceptand appreciate our lives without any preconditions. We also discoverthrough this film that many others also share our hopes, fears,humanity and prejudices.I salute those who have shared their most intimate moments and privateexperiences with the rest of us for in having the courage to allowthemselves to be seen, they have shown us that it is possible to livethrough life's difficulties and still persevere - such is theresilience of the human spirit.You see the Japanese father and his young son living in an abject messand wonder why. Then you see them offering incense in remembrance ofthe deceased mother and you get that lump in your throat. There aremany other poignant moments - a young man telling his grandmother thathe is gay - you can almost hear her struggling for the right things tosay on the other end of the 'phone.This film is also about connection and what it is to be human. Despitethe sometimes blurry images, it succeeds extremely well - you careabout the people sharing their stories - because they are real peoplewith authentic stories, and not from the fevered imagination of aHollywood scriptwriter.Make sure you stay to the end to watch the final clip.It is probably the best movie I have seen this year - quite amasterpiece of experimental film making.If you only see one movie this year, make it this one.
Golf India
24 May 2012
Unremarkable YouTube mash
I watched this movie/documentary on the back of excellent reviews, andthe caliber of the director and producer. The subject matter wasinteresting, asking the web community to capture events happening intheir life or around them, on one day - thereby trying to captureglobally the essence of living. However it seems the scope of thesubject was too large, and difficult to condense and organise. As aresult there is no plot, and only a loose structure around the time ofthe day, i.e. rising of the sun, breakfast, lunch... with all sorts ofjumps to different subjects/locations/genres. That is OK if you want tosit through a random mish-mash of amateur clips, but I wondered whatwas the added value from 90 min of me surfing on YouTube. The answer iseditorial choice - it's all in the art of sampling, compiling andpresenting. To be fair, some parts were slick, but I wasn't sure aboutthe sudden jumps throughout, with no apparent link. Was the style meantto be impartial and objective / shocking, to drive a point home /partisan, representing a sanitised view of the world (big sponsorbacking through LG, who won't like a depressing story even if that wasthe reality of the user videos)? In the end, I felt the movie wastrying to be all things to everyone. It seems this explains thepopularity. But I failed to connect with the movie. Worse still, I feltreally nauseous from the jerky camera movements. I went to the cinemato be entertained, not to induce vomitting. If you must watch thisfilm, do it from a small screen. I wouldn't pay any money to watch itin the cinema - it's pointless.
palindromeemordnilap
23 May 2012
Simply Overrated
We're entering a period in cinematic history where people hear about a"cool" idea for a film and accept it as being breathtaking andfantastic because the idea dictates that it should be. The idea forLife in a Day was interesting as the technological developments aroundthe world mean that making this film would only be possible now,however the execution of this idea was sub-par.My main criticism of the film comes from the cheap attempts the filmuses to evoke emotion in the viewer. For example, in order to evokesympathy there was almost a non-exhaustive showing of poor people. Toevoke humour, the film relied on people pulling silly faces or doingsilly things which may have been funny if the viewer was there or knewthe people involved, however it seems that the makers of the film wereignorant of the fact that the viewer does not. These attempts to evokeemotion can be easily seen through as a failure to connect the audienceto those on screen.My secondary criticism of the film is the style that they presented theclips in. I believe that the film would have been a lot more enjoyablehad the producers decided to steer the film into more of an educationalexperience rather than an artistic venture. The film portrays the worldas something that it is not: happy, and this is relayed in the film as"art". As an educational film, the world could have been presented in amore accurate, two sided way.Having this said, there are parts of the film which deserve credit. Thesoundtrack at certain points is very fitting and the Love Parade scenewas by a long shot the best part of the film. It seems obvious that theeditor is very proud of his work in this film as he went for a veryhands on approach, but at its base the editing was very pretentious asit further enhances this fake view of the world.Life in a Day deserves a lot less credit than it receives, but it is afilm that will get the simple minded thinking. You will love this filmif you are: an environmentalist and/or on antidepressants. You willhate this film if you are a: rational/cynic.
roger-verdurmen
23 May 2012
Amazing insight into the way the world lives one day
Without a doubt one of the worlds best examples of co-creation or evencrowd sourcing if you like. How 4500 hours of film were carefullyjudged until 150 hours of film could serve as the basis for this 1,5hour jewel will never seize to amaze me. The film touches every singleemotion from joy to fear to disgust to sadness and relief, and does soin a totally natural way, probably as life itself does. Maybe somewhatbesides the point of the film but what struck me was the notion that inwhatever direction I would travel, except maybe slightly north, ingeneral people are worse off than in my country. You could say seeinglife on our planet makes me appreciate my particular life more.Probably it was about time something would...
rperry-17
22 May 2012
The last fifteen minutes....
I'm going to review this based on just the last fifteen minutes of thefilm. I have not seen the whole film yet, just the trailers and the lastfifteen minutes.Review:"My God. Could not be imagined, could not be written, could not havebeen foreseen.Astounding ending, but ultimately at peace with life. In a Day. MyGod."The film quality is way above what you might expect, as is the sound.This is not a collection of home video, but some astounding shots. Thestory itself is unwritten, just assembled, but incredibly well.I think it will take some time for this work to be recognised for whatit is.As will the vision of the people who came up with the idea. The resultis surely way beyond what they could ever have imagined.
siukong
21 May 2012
Just another extraordinary day
By its very nature, Life in a Day is an ambitious film. It seeks toencapsulate the human experience and all that it entails: life anddeath; love and hate; poverty and wealth; our dreams and our fears; andso on. I would argue that it does so successfully - or at least assuccessfully as possible for an undertaking of such scope (80,000submissions totalling 4,500 hours of footage cut down to just an hourand a half!). It manages to strike a balance between the beauty ofprofessional shooting and the raw visceral power of amateur footage.Very little seems contrived or awkward, and the editing and music donot usually distract from the simple energy of the vignettes beingshown. In fact, the score is quite good and the editing only comes tothe forefront when it's doing something meaningful - revealing links,emphasizing contrasts, or completing a thought.A few stories are highlighted and revisited as the film progresses, butin general it never lingers too long on one scene. You would think thismight hinder the presentation of some of the slower, more peacefulaspects of life, but it really doesn't. In fact, the lasting impressionfrom this film is not one of chaos but one of unity and connection.That being said, at times the emotional roller-coaster you are beingput through can be slightly bewildering. Some viewers might dislike howquickly they are brought from one emotion to another, but most willprobably be too engaged to feel more than a twinge of regret that aparticular scene couldn't last longer.Some might argue that the more brutal realities of life areunderrepresented (war, death, crime, prejudice, etc.), but I think thatperception is probably due to how much we are bombarded with them byour daily news and entertainment. Don't get me wrong, there is plentyof misery on display here (whether it be as simple as the sting ofrejection or as profound as the fear of dying), but it's often moresubtle than explicit and it's tempered by a positivity that sometimesseems to be lacking in our view of the world.As a cinema enthusiast, this film excites me with the prospect ofincreasing interactivity and grassroots power. As a human, it gives mehope that we can live in harmony and understanding. And I'm usuallyquite the cynic.Final summary: 9/10 | A
ajs-10
19 May 2012
Excellent documentary... Well worth a look...
I remember the beginnings of this idea being released into the world.We, the world in general, were asked to film something, anything, on24th July 2010 and post it to a special YouTube page. 80,000 clips andfilms were submitted, totalling 4,500 hours of footage from 192countries. It fell to director Kevin Macdonald and his team to whittlethis down into a 90 minute film. And boy what a film! There are veryfew documentaries I've seen that are better than this. Such a diversityof cultures, subjects and people, it really opened my eyes.The format basically follows the time arc of the day, from the earlyhours of the morning right through to the following midnight. Therewere pieces from a vast array of peoples from all around the globe,some quite touching, some disturbing and some just plain silly. I mustwarn you that there are one or two scenes that some may find upsettingand there is a little swearing. Quite a variation in picture qualitydidn't really detract from what is quite a stunning piece of work. It'sall held together with a beautiful musical soundtrack by HarryGregson-Williams and Matthew Herbert.I really enjoyed watching the diversity on show here and I had to keepreminding myself that all these things happened on the same day. Forme, the star of the show was the Korean guy who was cycling around theworld. He just wanted to reunite North and South Korea and he had suchoptimism. It's beautifully put together with various themes runningthrough it. Never boring, no voice-over, just the people of the worldtelling their own stories Highly Recommended.My score: 8.9/10 IMDb Score: 8.1/10 (based on 1,675 votes at the time of going topress).
fustbariclation
19 May 2012
Life in a Day is, unusually, worth the huge praise - it is truly brilliant! Sad, humbling, trite, yes, but thats us.
Wow! This has exceeded all my expectations - & I had a lot. It isn't afilm, it's an experience. If aliens were to watch any film abouthumanity, I'd want it to be this one. It is really sad, really happy,really genuine. We are such amazing, and (mainly) wonderful apes:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt16â87247/ We're so used to false,manufactured, artificial emotion in films that it's quite an unusualdelight to find the real thing.Yes, of course, any editing of so many clips has, perforce, a point ofview, an agenda, but I can't help feeling that this is a sound one, ahumanistic one. I'll have to watch it again - it just has so much, somany perspectives on what makes us human, what matters to us, what wefear, why we are what we are.I'd recommend it - humanity in the raw. Ourselves. What is best aboutthe film (given my comment above) is that it just is what it is (as faras is possible in such a duplicitous medium).I'll watch it again, and consider more what it really has to say - butmy first impression is that it is brilliant.Sad, humbling, trite, yes, but that's us.
valleyjohn
19 May 2012
Brilliant editing
Imagine a film , shot in one day , by 80,000 people. it soundsunbelievable but that is exactly what "Life in day" is. Thisfascinating film is made from footage of YouTube clips from peopleasked to film there everyday activities and do you know what ? Itreally works.How the director managed to edit down 4,500 hours of footage is beyondme but the final cut is excellent none the less.If there ever was a film just about people , this is it. In a way itrestores your faith in human nature when you watch this and it's also afilm that is so fascinating the time flies by.If your a fan of the YouTube phenomenon or not i recommend Life in aday.
raybid
18 May 2012
Sometimes OK is worse than bad
An intriguing idea, and the makers should be applauded for trying it,but I came away thinking - "That was just like watching someone elsesurf Youtube for 90 minutes". Some of the clips were amazing, moving,inspiring, but so are millions of clips already on Youtube, and I getto choose which ones I watch to match my tastes.One major negative mark, the film contains 2 scenes of graphic animalslaughter, one is quite lengthy, I found this quite offensive, made mewish even more that I wasn't watching someone else's choice of clips.It was OK though, it held my attention, it was superbly edited, justfundamentally flawed in its conception, an experiment gone astray, butstill OK, but when a film costs so much to go and see, OK just isn'tenough is it? Go surf Youtube instead.
billcr12
17 May 2012
Great expectations
Life in a Day shows ordinary people from around the world in a seriesof short, disconnected vignettes.A woman trying to sleep is awakened by her hyperactive son while herhusband tells the little boy to let his mother sleep. We quickly learnthat the woman is seriously ill.A young man calls his mother asking her advice regarding a potentialgirlfriend; another guy phones his mom to tell her that his good friendis actually his boyfriend. Both scenes end in surprising ways.My personal favorite is a man from Korea riding his bicycle in everycountry. This particular segment should be made in to a full lengthfeature.Alternating between tragic and comic, with beautiful photography, thisdocumentary should be nominated for an Academy Award.
TheUnknown837-1
16 May 2012
It engages the audience more than any documentary Ive ever seen and leaves us with that profound and beautiful sensation that only the movies can give us.
A father and son document their lives caring for someone they love, whois stricken with cancer. A man steals from a grocery store. An elderlycouple, their hair pristine white, finally tie the knot. A young mantells his grandmother via a phone call that he is gay and that he hopesshe can come to love his significant other as much as him. A group ofwomen sing as they perform their daily duties. A photographer describeshis way of life. People walk, go to work, talk to each other, talk tothe camera, as they do in life. Because this is life. Life isextraordinary and life is mundane. And life, no matter from whatperspective we examine it, is mesmerizing. And Kevin Macdonald's film"Life in a Day" is all of that and more.This is one of the most enthralling, captivating, and magnificent worksof art ever produced by human hands. And that is the honest truth,since it was, in deed, created by hundreds of people. Some of themfilmmakers, most of them just ordinary Janes and Joes like you and me.Detailing what happened in their lives on July 24, 2010 and submittingtheir footage to Mr. Macdonald and producer Ridley Scott, they providedthe materials for a genuine masterpiece. "Life in a Day" is amasterpiece not because it is artistic or cared for with creativetenderness (even though it is). It's a masterpiece because it isunabashedly honest and personable. I watched the movie on its liveYoutube debut while it was simultaneously screened at the Sundance filmfestival. And for an hour and thirty-four minutes, I sat therecaptivated. Nothing could have torn me from my seat. Even though mostof what I saw was fairly ordinary, things I could see walking down anystreet in any town. Paradoxical as it sounds, the mundane ismesmerizing.In his movie, Mr. Macdonald and his hundreds of co-directors examineshuman life as fact and with honesty. He reveals the frailties,tenderness, brutality, horrors, and beauty of life in our world allwithin that short window of an hour and a half. It's so captivatingbecause it's all real and these are stories that many of us canidentify with, and others we hope never to. That's when the moviereally becomes a tear-jerker. Sometimes there are long stretches oftime on particular subjects, other times it's a montage accompanied bytruly wonderful, ear-worm music. There is so much that I want to sayabout "Life in a Day" but I must restrict myself. Because the moviereally has to be seen to be believed. I cannot possibly do this film'semotional and psychological justice simply by writing about it. All Ishould (and will) do is tell you my reaction, as I just have. This isone of my most personal reviews and it's fair because it's a personalfilm. It engages the audience more than any documentary could ever do(though I haven't seen "Shoah" yet) and it leaves us with that utterlyprofound and beautiful sensation that only a great picture can do. Eventhough it is very, very simple in a lot of ways. After all, StevenSpielberg once said "Oftentimes the simplest ideas are the best ones."He was right. Boy, was he right."Life in a Day" is a masterpiece.
Kevin Loigu
15 May 2012
Life in a day,,,
First of all, this is my first review. Second of all, this documentaryis pure gold. How can you sum up life? All it's wonders and downsides?I think Kevin Macdonald and Ridley Scott and the whole team behindmaking this film did a great job. Everything you see in the film ispure. It's real. It's like if you watch this movie you can realize justhow large our world is. You cannot compare your everyday world to theworld other 7 billion humans are living in. Well at least I couldn't.Movies are my passion. And so are many other things. Being one of sevenbillion makes you think. Makes you analyze. Makes you feel. About life,about death. About myself and about you. About your smile. Aboutschool. About granny. About yesterday and about tomorrow. Life in a dayisn't just a documentary. It's a true story told by everyone in thisplanet. And the story goes on every single day until the story slowlyfades... Make your life worth living for. It's not likely to lastanother story.
CourtsideJack
15 May 2012
At face value, engaging but peel away some layers and it is profound.
We have all had that moment. At a particular point in any given day, wewonder what someone is doing on the other side of the world at thatexact moment. Life in a Day gives us just a glimpse of the world on anormal day and does so masterfully. I was very engaged by the flashyediting and creative montages but also very touched at some of theshort sequences of humans in their most candid moments. This film givesus a window into life on the macro and the micro. It presents us withconstant scene changes and slick editing to keep us interested and thengives us some very real and very profound moments. This film manages to reward the viewer with quality and quantity, inthe sense that it packs more into its 95 minutes that you can shake astick at. Many of the stories in this movie could be their owndocumentaries themselves and make for a great watch. But it is not justthe people, that make this movie great. Without giving anything away,this film will find ways to pull at your heartstrings in ways you mayhave never experienced with cinema. Everyone at some point in this filmcan relate to moments that are so visceral and so real, you may findyour self reliving emotions you may not have expected, good and bad. Iam being purposefully vague because any explanation of the events inthis film will not do it justice. You need to experience it. I highly recommend this film, not as a documentary, but as anexperience and window into the human condition. Life, death, love,laughter, bodily function, work,war,heartbreak, fear. Just some of theemotions and experiences chronicled, this film does a great job ofpresenting it in an interesting way that keeps you wanting more. It isalmost too bad that for most of the subjects, we are offered a verybrief glimpse into their life only to be whisked halfway around theworld and thrust into the home of another. The Scott brothers (Tony andRidley) did a great job of keeping some cohesion as far as thechronological order of the day and the subject matter. With 4500 hoursof footage from 192 countries, this was no small feat. In closing, I hope more and more see this movie as it gives us anunbiased glimpse into the human condition. Approach the movie with anopen mind and a little patience, and you will be rewarded. It is artsuch as this that can help us understand one another to hopefully beable to put aside our differences, if for just one day.
kerick08
14 May 2012
The Power of Connection
Life in a Day is a historic cinematic experiment that attempts tocapture what life looks like on one day, July 24th, 2010, around theentirety of the world. Thousands of hours of video were captured andthen compiled to give a glimpse into what constitutes an average dayamongst humanity. This film is ultimately about connection; the connection of humans toone another and all of the mundane, regular, everyday things that weshare despite our differences in culture, location, and upbringing. Thefact that we all sleep. We all wake up in the morning. We all eatbreakfast. We brush our teeth. We walk around. We smile. We love. Wefear. We breathe. This film is an affirmation of the simple joys andsorrows that we experience merely as a result of living on this earthand being human. It is an affirmation of life at its rawest, truest,grittiest, and loveliest. The summarization of this project can be found in the words a youngteenage girl who vocalizes that, although she went through her wholeday with nothing particularly out of the ordinary occurring, merely bypartaking in this social experiment and something greater than just herown life, she was left with the feeling that something amazing washappening. This simple statement speaks of our innate human desire to be a part ofsomething that is larger than just ourselves. We long to belong, toconnect, to be understood, and to be a part of something meaningful andworthwhile. This film speaks directly to this need and is able totranscend religion, culture, age, and gender to get at the heart ofwhat it means to be a human being on earth today. What an amazing timecapsule treasure for generations to come.
Movie Geek
14 May 2012
The Ordinary becomes extraordinary!!
Last year (2010) YouTube launched a campaign, supported by executiveproducers Tony and Ridley Scott, asking everybody with a camcorder torecord a day in their lives. Fast forward a year to 2011 and directorKevin Macdonald and editor Joe Walker (never an editor has been morecrucial to the making of a film), release their documentary to theworld and to the same people who actually filmed it. Apparently 80000videos for a total of 4500 hours were submitted from 126 differentnations. The result is a film that tells the story of a day on Earth,and precisely the 24th of July 2010: 24 hours in the life of ordinarypeople. Their stories, their images, their thoughts, all linkedtogether by an incredible work of editing and a rousing soundtrack byHarry Gregson- Williams. You can argue that some of it might beslightly heavy-handed (a shot of a cow being killed on camera is then,non very subtlety, cut together with a man eating from a bowl ofspaghetti), but some of the choices are absolutely inspired (montagesequences of people getting up in the morning or having breakfast orsimply walking). It's the amalgamation of all these little snippets oflife that makes the film an incredible watch and in the end it ends upactually telling a story as the ordinary becomes extraordinary. Thefilm starts at midnight as people are still asleep in most places: somenight shift workers are already at it, some wild party animals arestill up from the previous day, but generally speaking it's a quietstart. Within a few minutes, we are treated by a sunrise montage fromall over the world as people are getting up in the most remote cornersof the globe. They have breakfast, some of them go to work, others stayat home, somebody shaves for the first time (a very funny scene!),somebody decides to lay in bed for a bit longer, and somebody elsebegins a new "empty" day: loneliness might be just around the corner Despite the sometimes over-indulgent choice of editing and theever-present soundtrack the film still manages to capture thatpulsating realism of modern life through simple gestures, looks, wordsand silences as the similarities and (many) differences are exposed.But just when you are about to think "is this film going to be just along montage sequence?", then the film suddenly slows down and you areactually treated to real moments into people's life (well, I say"real", obviously there's a camera filming so I suppose it's "a versionof reality", but that doesn't diminish its value nor its emotionalimpact on the audience). For example, quite early on a little boy ofprobably 4 is woken up by his dad who's filming the whole thing (I seemto remember they were in Japan or thereabout): we stay with them for awhile as they talk about seemingly mundane things: the boy isincredibly sweet, the house is strangely messy. Then dad says "let's goand say 'hi' to mom". They move to a corner of a room where we see forthe first time a little shrine with a picture of a woman. Together theylight an incense and pay their little morning tribute to the mom. It'aquiet moment that tell a thousand words: no need for commentary or anyexplanation. It's clear these two have been doing this for a while.It's clear they are incredibly close to each other. Mom is gone. Theyare both alone, but they have each other We fill the gaps in aninstant. It's an incredibly poignant moment. This time there is nomusic playing underneath. The director knows when to manipulate itsaudience and when he should take a step back and let us make our ownmind and feel what we want to feel. Life in a day is full of simplemoments like this one. So simple and yet so powerful. Don't worry,there are a lot of laugh-out-loud moments too. Generally speaking thefilm is edited in such a way that shows a certain optimism that comeswith the beginning of a new day and yet is some cases, this fades awayfor some as we approach sunset and go through the night by which timeloneliness takes over the weakest ones. It's a beautifully constructeddevice, which might be a bit contrived but it works perfectly. In theend, this is a film about everything: rich countries and poorcountries, smiles and tears (quite a lot in my case, I must confess),day and night, life and death, animals and humans, man and women,whites, blacks, gays, straights, children and very old people,happiness and desperation. We are all there, with our fears, ouridiosyncrasies, our routines, our doubts, our weaknesses Everybodywill come out of it and will probably remember something different.Each of us might identify with a different moment in the film. Onething is certain: you will never forget it. It might not be a completemasterpiece, but there is so much good stuff in it that makes youforget the slightly sugary moments and the most heavy handed ones. Thiswas my favourite film of the year so far and definitely the mostintense emotional experience I've had in a long time.
saternbaby
14 May 2012
Life as a Lie
I understand the need to drive home some kind of secular fantasy abouthuman unity in the technological age. I also understand that humans aredoing themselves no favors by building lies like this film in place ofserious discussions concerning just how intolerant, self-righteous,irresponsible, violent, perverse, delusional and diseased we are as aspecies. This will sound cynical to some. But I am cynical because Ihave no choice. I see wonder in the natural world, even as it ismerciless and savage. But humans are not wondrous. We are a part ofsomething wondrous. Big difference. A celebration of life by theliving, though understandable, is absurd. And the lie is that we aresome kind of global community that can "just get along".YouTube itself is an socially irresponsible corporation which allowsthousands (or millions) of children exposure to everything fromsimulated and real violence to soft and hardcore pornography. All onehas to do is go on to the site's homepage to see a giant ad for CaptainMorgan rum; look a bit further and see a wealth of videos promotingdrug use, fake suicide videos and countless human rears gyrating to theaggressive anti-musical strains of hip-hop. YouTube does more to bringignorant arrogance, nihilism and reckless hedonism to the world thanany other media source in existence. I have seen plenty of amusingthings on YouTube, but not once have I gone onto the site and beenspared from intentional offenses, disrespectful expressions and hostileattitudes. To utilize and advertise such a site is a moral joke incontext to the liberal BS of this film's major conceit.We are not one world. We are a bunch of messed up animals trying tocope with our own fears, doubts, prejudices, insecurities, confusionand immaturity in the face of technological evolution that iscompletely out of our moral control. Life in a Day is an amusingdiversion at best and a deceptive distraction at worst. Do yourself afavor and stroll away from this foolish herd and its pretensions.Discover something truly interesting and wondrous: the rest of thenatural world.
rbferre
14 May 2012
Ordinary Wonderful World!
How many times have you wondered how a human being lives in anothercity of this planet? Not something we see in the movies, just aregular, ordinary, mundane, and simple human being.How many times have you thought how life is short and how you should doto get the most of it.Well, this movie is about these questions and much more. Using rawfootage sent by people from different backgrounds and 192 countries -which makes us think how powerful the media is - it takes to afascinating journey to witness a long needed reality check. Fascinatingin its own way, because the scenes you see are ordinary. And that iswhat the enchantment is... art from the ordinary.It is not a reality show, nor a fictional movie. Life in a Day isjust... Life. With all frustrations , discoveries, sadness, and hopes.Just life.I watched this movie not expecting too much. And boy was I wrong - thiskept me mesmerized for 94 minutes. And at the end, you will askyourself if you are doing the best from your existence in this planet.Not to be missed!
tedg
12 May 2012
Snail Eats Label
Life in a day: The Scott brothers sponsor a film with YouTube. Isuppose the idea from YouTube's side is that ordinary people make filmsthat are real, and that allow us to deeply share humanity... the kindof films you can find on Google's YouTube.This film really is good, but it is precisely because it has whatYouTube cannot give: coherence and something like a zen long form essayon engagement. It is, in other words, composed, with themes, andblending; contradictions (but without comment); differences unified.Sound and song that binds; rhythms that you can understand throughoutas the rhythms of life.Some of the people you meet, you simply fall in love with, but thiswould not be the case if you saw them alone. It only works because ofthe composition, the story that we weave that bridges the thing. Someof the scenes were clearly shot knowing the whole, and that takes awaysome of the truth of the thing, and truth matters here. But thatintroduces only minor friction.The final shot could stand alone. I'm not sure if it is computergenerated or not: a snail progresses on a billiard-sized white balluntil it encounters a label that says 'mind your own business.' Thesnail eats the label. I think YouTube would like to brand itself as avideo FaceBook in the sense of allowing anyone to see anyone, with theassumption that everyone is interesting in some way. This is engaging and personal. The source material may well have comethrough a YouTube- like process, but what this shows it that you needlong form, a story and some talent to make things that matter.Ted's Evaluation -- 2 of 3: Has some interesting elements.
obinome
12 May 2012
Building awareness enables empathy and responsibility.
What a fantastic film.As much as I love conventional scripted film and actors, I always knowdeep down that none of it is 100% real, therefore I am never fullylocked in for the whole duration of the movie and any emotions I feelare very short lived.I had to keep telling myself, 'This is real' to counter act the habitsof thinking 'this is not real' and this really made the experienceunlike any other, even with documentaries they are often over scriptedand distort the truth.I realize that to build empathy and responsibility we all need tobecome more aware of our surroundings. This is why the internet has hadsuch a positive impact on human rights, charities, and freedom ofspeech, which motivates democratic political changes too improve theplanet.I heard just yesterday that the US Congress was trying to pass a billthat would censor the worlds internet. Although online piracy is astrong motive, the real reason is to prevent the worlds people fromhaving a democratic voice. As the more we all see the starvation,inequality, war, corruption, deceit, the more we all strive to makeconstructive changes to a this over protected sick system.... The vastmajority actually want a kinder more equal planet, but right now thesystem is motivated by profits, and profits motivate dictatorship andcorruption.We must realize our ability to use technology to create a new system ofglobal wealth beyond traditional hierarchy and suffering. It will taketime, and we must continue to produce films which show the world as awhole, for us to really understand our connection to the environment.(Watch the Zeitgeist movement movies for free on youtube to understandmore about resource based economies)It makes me upset to know that so many people fear death. But hopefullylike me, people will grow to understand their real identity is thewhole of planet earth, imagine looking at planet earth from aspaceship, we must learn to see earth as an organism like a tree, andpeople are just leaves on the tree, they die, but the tree still liveson as something greater. Its a big step to take and the thought processdoesn't solidify over night,(took me two years to solidify thisawareness) but, now I see all suffering as 'my own' as 'I am' theorganism, and all joy as 'mine' too... and therefore we have aresponsibility to remove all religion which promotes the thoughtprocesses of individualism and division. we have a responsibility maketo make everyone's life blissful. AS I AM YOU, AND WE ARE ALL.This movie enables us to think like ONE organism should.
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