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Life in a Day

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United Kingdom, United States · 2011
Rated PG-13 · 1h 35m
Director Kevin Macdonald, Zillah Bowes
Starring Cindy Baer, Moica, Caryn Waechter, Drake Shannon
Genre Documentary, Drama

Life in a Day is a crowd-sourced documentary film comprising an arranged series of video clips selected from 80,000 clips submitted to the YouTube video sharing website, the clips showing separate occurrences from around the world on a single day, 24 July 2010. The film serves as a time capsule for future generations.

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80

Time Out by

Life really sings when it's simply pulling together thematic montages - of waking up, food preparation or answers to the question "What do you fear?" - or letting a genuine moment unfold without comment.

12

Slant Magazine by Andrew Schenker

Only a few snippets escape the uncritical narcissism that the film celebrates and, despite their unimaginative employment, they stand as something of a rebuke to the film's dominant images.

80

Empire by Helen O'Hara

Moving and insightful. Not a classic by any means, but a fascinating glimpse of the way we live today.

60

Wall Street Journal by Joe Morgenstern

Does the film add up to something more than a stunt? Maybe not. I was captivated by the several hours I recently saw of Christian Marclay's 24-hour-long "The Clock," a video mashup in which thousands of clips from hundred of movies contain watches and clocks telling the same time that spectators can read on their wrists. Life in a Day doesn't aspire to such intricacy, but it's fascinating all the same, an electronic update of Alexander Pope's maxim that the proper study of mankind is man.

40

Village Voice by Nicolas Rapold

The resulting object is less about the world than about itself, and feels like a hey-that's-neat 90-minute troll through the video-sharing website (which co-presents the project).

67

The A.V. Club by Noel Murray

If nothing else, Life In A Day serves as a fine time capsule, recording some of what life was like on Earth in 2010.

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