Purely Joyful Movie!

The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

Most of people are not attracted to documentaries , but after seeing this movie i guarantee you will become a fan of this kind . Life in a day is a cinematic experience that attempts to capture what life looks like around the whole world in one day which is ( 24th of July,2010), thousands of videos were recorded from all the world - even from Egypt !- and were sent to the filmmakers whom they made a great effort to produce such a documentary . The movie is engaging from the first scene to the end , although there are different people , languages and cultures but it goes in a brilliant harmonic sequence . I strongly recommend this movie , it will extract your deep inner feelings of love , peace and happiness .

I watched the film a life in a day as part of my A2 media course at college. The film focuses on the 24th July 2010 and what average, normal everyday people from all corners of the globe get up to in their life over the course of a 24 hour period. My first impressions of the film were that I had never experienced a documentary like this before. The producers used an unorthodox approach to filming with no narration which would be expected in a documentary. I would not have chosen to watch it but overall am glad I did. I do feel that there were many good features of the film. For example it allowed us to experience how people lived all over the world. We had an insight to cultures and traditions which would be highly unlikely to experience in any other way. We listened to people's opinions on subjects such as love and fears. And learned that even though ever human being is unique where ever we are in the world, be it the slums of Mumbai or the bustling cities in the USA we still share the same norms and values when it comes to loving and caring about things like family. Also it delivers a complete range of life experiences from birth (a baby giraffe is born) to the tragic death of people in the love parade. However it is not flawless. In places I found it to be tedious and dull. It often lingered for too long on clips that were not particularly interesting and on clips that I felt were very interesting were over far too quickly. A perfect example was the little shoe shine boy in a far eastern country I would have liked to see his life more however we didn't. In my opinion overall I enjoyed life in a day even though in some sections of the film it could become repetitive and tedious in places. It was interesting witnessing all the different cultures and how they lived their lives but sometimes it got boring. The best bits of the film I feel were when the people talked about their views on life and it was interesting to see the contrast on opinions in different areas on the planet.

I watched this film at school as part of my A-Level media case study for the NMT exam. My first impressions of the film was that I didn't know what to think about it as film these days have lots of effect and is fake and this film is very real. Life in a day is a great film and is a different film as third world countries have a big part in the production. I also think that life in a day is more of a documentary then a film. I liked the use of different camera angles from in one shot having a long range shot which is then changed to a close up so you can't escape what is going on in the film. I also liked the idea of not having the film about people that not everyone sees every day and it's not all about the English and American people as all the Hollywood films are. Also the film I think does a great job of showing how many amazing things can happen in just one day and also tragedy's such as the love parade festival where lots of people getting crushed and people dying but it has human births and animal births marriage, all the this that make people happy and sad are in this film. also the film keeps you hooked in the film. Some of the things which I didn't like about the film was that some of the clips were too long and others too short.In conclusion Life in a day is a great film which catchers everything that can happen in a day and shows you the circle of life, the film can represent light and dark, birth and death and was based on three questions, what do you love, What do you hate and what is in your pockets.

I had to watch Life in a Day at college for the next part of my A-Levels as it focuses on New Media Technology. This film is one of our main case studies, when I found out that I was going to watch this film I wasn't very happy about the idea but now I have watched it I can see why people rate it so much as it is one of those films that you can watch over and over again and notice new things.When I first started watching the film I thought it was odd as it didn't seem real, the more I watched though I understood that people were happy to be taking part in the film and wanted to help other people understand what everybody else does every day and how people's lives are all different.I thought the film was really good as you were able to understand what some people have to go through. I was also impressed with the way the film was edited as it helped you understand what was going on more as it was edited into a kind of story line throughout the whole day. I really like the film as it is a somewhat time capsule and in years to come people will be able to watch this film and understand how we used to live and I think it would be a great idea if something like this could be made every so often.However I didn't enjoy some of the footage that was added into the film, I understand that the producer and director wanted to get all different types of things in however you were never warned about some of the shocking clips that was in the film. Another reason why I didn't enjoy the film is because it seemed surreal as everybody on the film seemed happy and everybody knows that it isn't true as there are plenty of other things going on in the world. For example, people in poverty, I understand they are happy with what they have got however they were making out they were on top of the world and nothing could be better.My overall impression is that I can understand why the film is a ground breaking film as it was really good, edited well, and made you understand everything differently. Everybody has different views on different things and I suppose it just depends on what you are interested in to whether you will enjoy the film or not. I'm happy that it helped YouTube become a more developed website and more well known to other people as people needed to understand that it wasn't just a film for videos and that the videos on there should actually mean something.