I watched the Life in a Day film on Youtube this morning.
The entire 1 hour and 34 minutes of it. I wasn’t planning to, but from the
moment it began I knew I wouldn’t be able to switch it off.
For those of you who don’t know much about it, essentially,
on 24th July 2010, as part of what would become a historic piece of
cinematic history, thousands of people videoed parts of their day and answered
a few questions. They uploaded these videos to Youtube and then a feature film
was produced from the thousand of hours of footage uploaded.
The result is a beautiful snapshot of a single day on planet
Earth. It documents our happiness, our fears, our sadness, our hardship, our
challenges, our joy, our love…
A particular snippet that resonated with me begins at
1:26:03… the scene in which a man is talking to his wife who is sick with
cancer. He says he’s now ‘fearless’ and that way of looking at the difficulty
they face is just amazing. If you haven’t yet seen it, you really should.
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