Great idea, i was hoping to see great variety since it supposed to be 192 countries, but it was 70% white people being whatever. and too many Americans. if i wanted to see Americans i would see the rest of netflix.honestly disappointed!!A Vida em um Dia (2011) "Life in a Day" (original title) PG-13 | 95 min | Documentary, Drama | 20 April 2012 (Brazil) 7,7 Your rating: 2/10 Ratings: 7,7/10 from 12.714 users Metascore: 58/100 Reviews: 54 user | 92 critic | 18 from Metacritic.com A documentary shot by film-makers all over the world that serves as a time capsule to show future generations what it was like to be alive on the twenty-fourth of July, 2010.Directors: Kevin Macdonald, Hiroaki Aikawa, 27 more credits » Stars: Hiroaki Aikawa, Cindy Baer, Teagan Bentley | See full cast and crew »

My first impressions of the film were that it was fairly confusing and had no sense of order. However, if you paid close attention, you could begin to tell that the film was telling a story, beginning at the earliest point in the day. Immediately, you expect the ending of the film to be the end of the day. My initial thoughts would be that the film would be rather boring and something which I would not pay to go and watch at the cinema. However, it is completely mind-blowing. The way in which the editors used clips generated from YouTube from hand-held cameras and adapted them into a way in which a professional film would be made is astonishing. The film is slickly edited to a high degree; it breaks the codes and conventions of a documentary, but was successfully pulled off by Kevin MacDonald.The film is mesmerising in terms of the thought process behind it. The idea to film a worldwide society on one single day and create a film from clips uploaded to YouTube is extremely unique. To add to this, MacDonald has included third-world countries by providing them with cameras, which further builds on the uniqueness. The film shows the contrast between light and dark, day and night and the contrast between life and death. The contrasts, we would have thought, would be obvious to the audience, however they were relatively subtle and disguised; it took detailed analysis and observation to see these contrasts but I believe that this subtleness draws the audience further into it and makes them understand the concept behind the film.However, some of the scenes included in the film, such as the slaughter of livestock, questioned the appropriateness for younger children, despite being rated 12. Yet, this theme of death is emphasised here. At times the film became tedious and the audience often found themselves distracted. The lack of voice-over pushes the audiences focus away from the film as does the lack of dialect in certain places. One certain point, where racism is shown, may cause offence to people of that religion and create a negative opinion, of the film, based on one specific scene.Overall, I thought that the film was unique and exciting in places. However, some aspects often left me distracted.

The idea of taking footage from people all over the world is a novel approach to a documentary. It creates an extremely candid and objective look into normal real life in our magnificent world. I have traveled a little bit in my life, but a film like this still makes me feel like I still haven't the slightest clue what billions of people live like in the world. I want to watch this like 3 more times just to try and take it all in. Though I'm sure the editors had a massive job cutting down the submissions into this feature length, I still feel like watching this was like drinking from a fire hose. From eating and working to religious practices and play times, from people's fears to people's loves you see a remarkable representation of life on earth in one day. The downside to this film is that, because of its candidness, you see some of the horrors of life like cancer, people being trampled to death at a festival, a man who has just had open heart surgery. But it is balanced by the beauty and adventure of life: birth, children at play, etc. At the end you will be left feeling like even if you are no one famous, or you don't have much going on in life, you are part of this planet and your story is as significant as everyone else's. I have a feeling we will be seeing more documentaries and movies made like this, incorporating average people's footage.

A mish mashy melange was my first reaction on watching this. Then i watched it again and could see more coherence in it.It's structured around all the ordinary small stuff we have to do to get through the every day: waking up, washing, brushing teeth, shaving, making breakfast, lunch and so on.And then there's the bigger life-events like coping with illness, getting married, having babies.Questions are asked like, "What's in your pocket?" or "What do you love/fear? A lonely guy loves his cat… another guy loves his fridge.. another guy fears his hair falling out… a woman fears "not being a mummy"… and so on..At times the editing is very fast: periodic montage sequences whizz by a conveyor belt of micro images like a Planet Earth ad break.But then there are several personal pieces that follow individual situations. I liked these slower stories better, such as The post-graduate returning to Essex to catch up with his "old man" dad, both sat in the car, sharing a burger.The gay guy coming out to grandma on the phone ("I love you too" he's saying to her) And the sad scenarios: of the father lighting incense at shrine of dead wife – and the little sons perfunctory remembrance of his mother; or the "Family project" of mother dying of cancer, trying to help her anxious young son make sense of it; or the thankful – tearful – Aussie in hospital after major heart surgery "I'll be out there again, doing crazy things, and enjoying life" he says. But you sense he probably won't.There's smiley bits too, like the Peruvian shoeshine boy; the rude wedding vows read by the English vicar.And some nasty bits, like the slaughter of cow, its throat being slashed into to let blood – and there's a rapidly cut together montage of scenes of violence and fighting – deliberately rushed through so as not to dwell too long. The shoplifting Russian/Slav is a bit dismaying too (firstly, that he's filmed getting away with it; secondly that the clip gets sent to be included in the film; and thirdly – that it is included!) Throughout, is the continual narrative thread of a Korean cycling around the world for the last 9 years – feeling homesick for Korean flies.Come the afternoon outdoor pursuits – like skydiving out of planes – and Life in a Day has got to feel exhausting.So much packed in, so much to pack in. I think a million sub-editors were needed to prune the 4500 hours of submitted footage into a mere 90 minutes – just a blink of the Earths eye really.To begin with i was wanting not to like it, but come the end i was won over. Out of all this mashed up diffuseness something cogent got produced. Although I wonder how much actual directing input Kevin MacDonald did to it. It looks more like a cut and paste collaboration, the chopped up product of countless hours of endless editing – rather than something that's been singularly created.Question is, would selective clicking on any YouTube vids on any day of the year produce the same result? No, cus this is more of a polished product. But watching a load of randomised clips would probably seem as arbitrary as this film feels. And the effect would feel similar: trawling in too much information just makes the net of your attention go saggy.I might watch this again one day (Unless they come up with another life in another day next year) At the end – 2 minutes before midnight – there's a girl in a car bemoaning the fact that "I spent the whole day waiting for something great to happen….all day long nothing really happened…i want people to know that i'm here…. i don't want to cease to exist" "I don't want to cease to exist". As long as you're seen on YouTube, you can pretend you don't. If you get my drift.