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The idea for this groundbreaking film and awesome pictorial collage surfaced in 2010 at the Sundance Institute, which was invited to take part in a worldwide cinematographic experiment. British director Kevin Macdonald proposed to film a feature-length documentary which would unfold over the course of a single day. Together the director and the film’s producer Ridley Scott (Alien, Blade Runner) decided to craft their original project using the growing popularity and appeal of YouTube: with a team of talented editors, they ultimately ended up processing 80,000 contributions coming in from 197 countries, totalling around 5,000 hours of highly personal and emotive video clips. For the first time in film history, we are given a unique documentary created from mini-stories filmed by people all over the world. The audience is thus given the chance to set out on a profoundly spiritual hour-and-a-half journey across the Planet Earth, the way it looked on July 24, 2010. (Karlovy Vary International Film Festival)
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A nice splinter of YouTube lisp that is funny and touching in places, flows pleasantly overall, does not offend, and may even give some viewers a feeling of existential experience. It's quite good at pretending to celebrate the richness of life.
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I kind of subconsciously knew this probably wouldn't be for me. Curiosity won out though. I never understood how anyone could sit and watch amateur videos for hours. I guess that's why this experiment didn't appeal to me either. I believe it was a lot of work and not easy to edit like that. Still, I don't see this project as a movie... and certainly not a movie that should be released.
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