Life in a Day

Unique and interesting. The quality of editing varies as sometimes its fantastic and others noticeably lacking. I felt in some scenarios they could of used extra footage to enhance scenes instead of sticking to a particular bit of footage which isn't as powerful as they think it is. Worth the time and a pretty cool idea.

The whole thing is coherent, sometimes really moving, sometimes really dull, but undeniably compelling by its spontaneous, reflexive and strong material. In one of the videos, there is this young lady saying that she worked on this 24th of July and that nothing really interesting happened in her life, but she also reveals that she feels that something quite important must have happened. Life, maybe. And that's it, most of the time, all we have is just life. That's big.

Welp, that was a lot of things. I suppose you couldn't do a great deal better with the gazillion different contributors but it's just hard to keep this kind of thing cohesive. Even with some semblance of structure through a series of questions it's hard not to see the seams separating all these experiences. Yes, movie, life is a lot of different things. Thanks?

Uneven. I liked it best when it combined the footage with rythmic editing. Sometimes the score overdid it in trying to make the moments appear greater than they seemed but there's enough interesting (and weird) people in the movie to make it worthwhile to sit through.

Best scene: Son visiting his father, eating hamburgers and talking for a bit.

I loved it. It was beautiful in its simplicity. To some, it may be boring. But I found it fascinating and heartwarming.

It is incredible how they managed to choose and edit the right clips out of 4500 hours of video, in order to capture a huge part of the emotions and fears that make us human, transgressing the boundaries of different cultures. The only major flaw, is the inconsistent directing and quality of editing, but the reasons for that are understandable.

It's an interesting experiment in crowdsourced filmmaking; in this case editing the footage into a sort of quasi-documentary. It has the potential to be truly exceptional, and there are sequences that are simply beautiful and awe-inspiring, but I feel a certain lack of sophistication in direction. It's worth watching at least once, if only for the demonstration of the universal nature of the human experience.

Interesting project is hit or miss, then again it is a slice of human life in a day, so that makes sense.

Some interesting people on here. Just when I felt it about to entice me it would let go. Will make for a nice time capsule piece for someone to watch 100 years from now. Not much more than that though.

A truly inspirational and poignant film, showing how inter-connected we all are spiritually and physically while exemplifying the infallibility of the human spirit. The idea that there is equal value in all lives is demonstrated successfully, we all are not that different.

A beautiful glimpse at life on earth, from the sublime to the ridiculous, from the everyday to the transcendental. The horror of the Love Festival crush, the fear in the eyes of a cow about to be slaughtered, the pain of a child whose mother has cancer ... and the joy of snuggling with one's children, watching a full moon, paying homage to the household Gods, all in one place. It was wonderfully cut and edited. My only gripe was that the final clip wasn't as strong as the rest of the film.

If you like watching documentaries and YouTube videos, then you should enjoy this. There are some amazing people in the world and amazing things that happen every day and this film lets you experience that.

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Really good idea, well execution, really good editing. A really nice watch that makes you enjoy life.

Simple and amazing.

Does what it says on the tin. Ups, downs, small snatches of horror. Some I'm not sure why they used, others I wanted more of. Must have been a MASSIVE undertaking going through all the footage.

"In Kevin Macdonald's project, what ultimately unites mankind is its banality." - Andrew Schenker

Definetly something new. Against the odds, it kept me interrested trough out the whole thing.

05.17 Tuğba

so apparently i never logged this? Anyway saw this 6 years ago and it's...a lot of things. I liked what it was going for.

Interesting idea. Some stories were really captivating, wanting to learn more of that particular individual.

some cool stuff throughout the movie, very easily forgettable, though...

This crowdsourced documentary has faced some tough criticism on Letterboxd - and elsewhere - but for me it was a moving, thoughtful work. It artfully blends beauty and horror, light and dark, night and day, finding surprising poignancy in contrasts subtle and otherwise. Despite the medium's inherent lack of narrative, I was kept enthralled by its beauty, immediacy and honesty. Absolutely worth a watch.

Other than the embarrassing coda, it is actually quite good. More National Geographic than YouTube, but the mix is better than both.

Beautiful, breathtaking, emotional and really captivating. One of the best documentaries I've seen i many, many years.