Life in a Day Reviews

This documentary was brilliant. Simply genius. I loved it. How can something so random be so perfect?
Seldom does a movie of any sort (espcially a "cut and paste" montage) take me through an entire range of emotion. During this film I experienced grief, joy, anger, frustration, pity, relief, and everything in between.

Seeing so many different cultures, and thousands of different people all experiencing the same day makes you truly think about yourself.

I'm in a state of awe right now. Maybe I'm giving it too much credit, so I will probaby watch it again tomorrow, but my God. I'm star struck.

It's hard to pinpoint one section that I enjoyed most.
But here are two questions that I loved:

What do you love?

1.I actually love my refrigerator. It's such a cool thing. It remains at one corner. It keeps its mouth shut. I love my refrigerator. Nothing else but my refrigerator!
2. The word "Mamihlapinatapai"
3. Uh, women...so much


What do you fear?

1. No one with ever call me "mummy"
2. This is me...this is what I'm afraid of
3. Being in this grave...life is so freaking short.
4. (on an icy mountain top) losing this place.
5. For all those people that don't know God and are going to hell.


Beautiful. Just beautiful.

Since I kept hearing here and there some really good things about this flick, I thought I should check it out. And indeed, the concept was pretty simple and rather intriguing and I was surprised how awesome some shots and scenes looked. To be honest, I didn't expect this from some amateurs but I guess it is a tribute to the power of editing and, Kevin Macdonald did some great job here, absolutely. Still, I wasn't really blown away by the whole thing. I mean, it was sometimes funny, touching but also pretty cheesy and, honestly, rather boring to watch. In my opinion, at the end of the day, it is and remains a bunch of home videos, very well edited and with some awesome music. No less and not much more than that, I'm afraid and all the different people involved, well, very often were not really interesting. I mean, if you make a documentary involving someone fascinating, there is a good chance that the documentary itself will be fascinating as well but if you make a documentary about an average guy you pick up in the street, there is a good chance that the movie will be tedious to watch. In this movie, they put together 100s of movies involving some average people and the end-result was still, well, pretty much average. At least, that's my opinion. Still, there were lot of beautiful things in here, it was a very interesting project and it is definitely worth a look.

It is a rundown of the major human emotions, the singularity of each one and the variegated cultures. From the conventional happiness, to the joy disguised as everyday life and also of the anguish, sorrow, and especially the incredible divergences in the world.

It's splendid to see and hear many-sided world views, beliefs, expectations, and even fears from people in such a jovial manner.

I finished the flick with a antagonistic perception, that we are very different from each other dissimilar, but only flimsily. Inherently, we all have those days, life, longing, and suffering experienced by almost the same things. Basically we are all human, connected by the same joys.

Carved out of cyber-reality and global in reach, this fast-paced documentary is shaped as much by Internet savvy as traditional filmmaking, which doesn't make the experience of it any less satisfying, or the implications any less provocative. Despite some vapid music, it's remarkable how stimulating and fresh the result actually is, thanks mainly to regular jolts of human weirdness.The many windows into different lives, capturing moments humorous and sad, ordinary and momentous, build into quite a moving film.