Genius found their moment

There are 196 countries in the world. But the most problematic and common question is “How many people are in the globe?” The official current world population for mid-year 2013 is estimated at 7,095,217,980. And all this vivid numbers are sharing the same Earth today. The documentary Life in a Day gambles with this apparent evidence to lots of captured moments reported by millions of people filming itself on a single day: July 24, 2010. The result is a big plain suggestion: the planet is a landscape framework of human interconnections. Definitely, it is not a movie; it is rather a human geographic investigation.

Life in a Day travels around a day-to-day routine but made by human involvements: people awake late and people waking up, washing their faces and drinking Indian tea. While a young boy is working in a flower market in Old Delhi, an American teenager is shaving his face for first time. Little normal and ordinary moments are mixed along Australia, England, Zambia, Indonesia, Filipinas, Egypt… stages settle down under all the same stars. “Sometimes the banal details can be the most telling, and the most familiar and touching to view,” said the film director.

The movie criss-crosses loves, fears and things people have in their pockets. There are a few that have coins in their pockets, a man has a gun and an old woman has miniature flags, a lot of curious things, telephones and other technologies… And there is a man with anything in his pocket. What about love? There is someone who love dirt or dirty river smell, another one likes grass, there are men who loves women and women who loves men, someone love the Lord and another one loves doing about 150 miles an hour down a motorway in a good car.

And there is a young girl who loves the word ‘mamihlapinatapa’. Behind this feelings, kids and adults are afraid of any kind of monsters, ghosts or witches, zombies, noises, dogs, lions or Alá and nothing else… There are people who are afraid of growing up or losing a place they like. An old man said that politics scare him more than anything and he wonders if we’re going to have another war. Another one is only scared of himself. There’s someone who has no fear.

Life in a Day shows us, above all, a clear evidence: everyone has something to tell, things to show. Also this experiment gives the chance to the spectator to value current stories that everyone wants to hear and touch. The producers of this film received, the 24^th of July, more than 5,000 hours of footage distributed in more than 80,000 videos from 192 different countries. This is what happens when someone gives the possibility to express to normal people: the extraordinary from the ordinary.

It’s time to continue my journey.