Life in a Day is a movie featuring people from all over the world videotaping their lives on one particular day, July 24th 2010. The people come from all walks of life, some of them are dealing with death of a loved one, some live in war torn countries, others live in extreme poverty and one guy even shows off his Lamborghini. There are plenty of people with "normal" lives too. The idea is interesting. Being able to see what people do on any given day and hearing their stories, some of which are touching while others are truly just annoying. Apart from the parts that feature animal slaughter* I thought the movie was good, until the last clip. It is that of a young woman who complains about having to work on a Saturday and not having a life interesting enough to film. She them goes on to talk about why participating in this project was important to her. Had that clip been put in, in the beginning of the movie it would've been perfectly fine but to see this girl talk about how uninteresting her life is after seeing a family dealing with the mother's cancer and a mentally challenged young man being tied up by his family so that he doesn't wander off, it just comes off whiny. And my main issue with it is actually the fact that what she says makes perfect sense. Majority of people can relate to wanting to matter, wanting to be more than they are, wanting to do something remarkable and there's nothing whiny about that, unless of course you say that in a room with people who are ill, incredibly poor or are mourning the death of someone they love. Obviously, the fault lies with the editor and not the poor young woman who now seems like an ungrateful bitch.
* apparently one very graphic clip was not enough, when you see the white cow in a metal stall just look away, trust me there is nothing worse than looking a creature in the eyes while it's being slaughtered
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