'Life In A Day' (2011) is what i'd like to think of as a poetic documentary that opens your eyes up to the world around you. This feature length documentary is shot by filmmakers all over the world that serves as a time capsule to show future generations what it was like to be alive on the 24th of July, 2010.
After watching 'Life In A Day', I was deeply moved; it's a poignant piece that captures the essences of life: happiness, illness, birth, death, grief, sorrow, celebration, hope, nature and more. No narration is used throughout its 95 minute length. Instead it's the participants footage from around the world shown, juxtaposed with fitting soundtracks.
I love this form of documenting the world around us. It has no core focus, except one that aims to capture everything that's happening on Earth, in a day.
The documentary doesn't hold back, there are scenes in which cows are being slaughtered, babies are being born as are animals, violence in the streets, and the sheer scale and variety of the world's wonders.
There are many moving movements throughout the film, that range from a woman talking to her husband on Skype who's on the other side of the world fighting a war, to a man recovering from an operation in hospital. These participants at moments break down into tears, and I think it's this sheer emotion and sheer raw footage, that makes this film as stunningly natural and moving as it could possibly be.
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