Life in a Day
My first howling post is based on being able to literally see, feel, and experience life in an hour and 35 minutes.
What are you doing on a friday of September 26th...2014?
Life in a Day shows home made videos of what life was like on July 24, 2010.
"What happens when you send a request out to the world to chronicle, via video, a single day on Earth? You get 80,000 submissions and 4,500 hours of footage from 192 countries. Producer Ridley Scott and Oscar-winning director Kevin Macdonald took this raw material — all shot on July 24, 2010 — and created Life in a Day, a groundbreaking, feature-length documentary that portrays this kaleidoscope of images we call life. National Geographic is bringing it to theaters starting July 24, 2011. Prepare to be amazed."
Watch the Documentary...
Life in a Day...life in just one day.
It's hard to picture life in just one day, but this time capsule documentary shares the lives of those on July 24, 2010.
Looking back into 2010.
POLITICAL TENSION
Times Square Car Bombing Attempt by Faisal Shahzad.
Wiki Leaks was released.
North and South Korea Tensions arose, people fearing a nuclear war or the next World War.
U.S. Combat Withdrawal in Iraq - President Barack Obama withdrew combat troops, but left "noncombat" troops to remain.
BP Oil Spill.
Haiti Earthquake with more than 3 million people affected and an estimated death toll of more than 230,000.
Winter Olympics were held in Vancouver, Canada.
Because so many things are going on in our lives, we tend to remember big events such as those listed above. From watching this documentary, it brought me to a whole new level of what I was doing...right now...just at this moment. The documentary starts off from an early morning of day break. You see the world and those waking to up a new day. You see videos of people with different skin color, where they're living, and how they just go on about doing their daily routine. You see human race in a different light. A big part of the movie are the "routines". It shows the diversity of people and culture.
We all eat. We all get up. We all rub our eyes and yawn. We all open doors.
You see the same routines of people. An example is the part of people waking up. It was one of my favorite scenes because the waking up process and where people wake up has a deeper meaning than I'd thought. Waking up is just so innate to us. But then you see people waking up from all different places. You see someone getting out of an ordinary bed, then you see someone waking up from a tent, babies from crib, the floor, or even just the plain outdoors. Life in a Day is edited so it tells a story without any narratives. You'd think it would be boring with just homemade videos of random people, but it's edited in a way where you feel as if you're in the room with them. Routines tell a chronicle story in this documentary. It sets the daily routine of what happens in a day.
From the routine, the documentary adds longer clips of footage. This documentary isn't just about showing the good side of life, it shows all different aspects of it. You witness so many touching short minutes into the lives of these people and feel for them. You can see a teenager shaving for the first time, you see a Japanese single-father and his son lighting an incense candle for his dead mother, you see people who are sick, people who are healthily, pregnant, see children playing, animals roaming around and a traveling man on a bicycle. The documentary's portion of clips gets you into...
Life in a Day isn't just some fluffy documentary that makes you appreciate life. It makes you realize what it is. You don't see just happiness, you see horror, hate, and fear. You see the killing of animals for food. The footage of the animal's throat being slit is excruciating and unbearable, but it's done for people who eat meat. You see the backdoor to life and the irony of it. The paradox of having war to keep the peace. These are the truths of the world. Many aspects of love, hate, death, sickness, and happiness isn't seen but felt through these home videos. Politics of a generation gap between a gay grandson telling his grandma he's gay over the phone. And his grandma just says I love you and uses the term "homosexual" which then the gay grandson tells his grandma that that term is more of a scientific term and it's okay to just call him gay.
Life in a Day is a documentary that leaves me speechless. There are so many lives I can relate to. The existence of life is something we question. There are so many different people in the world that it's hard to stand out. After seeing the depth of these individuals I evaluated on where I stand. I may be living a different lifestyle, but the same reoccurring theme of routines is small, but something we can relate to. In the end, besides all the tension, we are all living in the same world.
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Preview of my next HOWL!
The Wander, Explore, and Roam section is part of my blog that will share additional information about the documentary. More about the directors, producers, and the cast.
Find out how this documentary process was made, how the idea came to be, and what the cast of those who sent in home videos are doing a year later after.
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