YouTube - Life in a Day Trailer
Life in a Day - 11/10!!!!!
This may just be the greatest film I've ever seen!! It was soooooooo beautiful, I was crying the whole way through! You may have heard of it. Last year they asked people from all over the world to film their lives for one day, 24th July 2010, then send the clips in so that they could merge them into one film. And what they've ended up with is this incredible celebration and capture of the beauty of ordinary human beings and ordinary life. I feel like my whole life has been put in perspective and many of the things I felt ashamed about I suddenly feel incredibly proud about, and vice versa. I must say, I felt a little embarrassed to be a westener watching this film, we didn't come off well. There's definitely something wrong in the west. When you've got too much wealth and nothing to fight for, our human nature tends to force itself out in unnatural, disingenuous ways. But some of the film was really eye-opening. It was so inspiring that I'm gonna cancel all my plans today and go and visit my mum, then take a quiet walk around the lake to digest some of these new thoughts I'm having!
I'm also left with a huge desire to film my own life now, so it wouldn't surprise me if there's a Life in a Day 2 & 3 & 4 etc. I feel like if they continue making these films every year or two, they could become a seriously massive global treasure.