“Life in a Day” started as an experiment, conceived by Ridley and Tony Scott for the YouTube generation. The idea was, they would ask people across the globe to record themselves or others on July 24, 2010. They hired Oscar-winning filmmaker Kevin Macdonald to direct the assembled footage into a cohesive storyline, got involved with YouTube, and waited.
What they received was astounding. Over 4500 hours of footage from 190 countries. Somehow, just a single year later, they have a 90-minute film which is a masterpiece, a movie that tells the story of the earth in a way that is hilarious and horrifying, heartbreaking and heartwarming, gentle and graphic, and most of all, completely unifying. Anyone who sits through this and doesn’t believe that, at heart, all humans are pretty much the same, and that we have a lot more to talk about than we think, just isn’t paying attention. To say it’s the best documentary — or one of the best films — we’ve ever seen isn’t really accurate. What it is, really and fundamentally, is a game changer . .
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