Life in a Day (2011)
10/10
Building awareness enables empathy and responsibility.
24 November 2011
What a fantastic film.

As much as I love conventional scripted film and actors, I always know deep down that none of it is 100% real, therefore I am never fully locked in for the whole duration of the movie and any emotions I feel are very short lived.

I had to keep telling myself, 'This is real' to counter act the habits of thinking 'this is not real' and this really made the experience unlike any other, even with documentaries they are often over scripted and distort the truth.

I realize that to build empathy and responsibility we all need to become more aware of our surroundings. This is why the internet has had such a positive impact on human rights, charities, and freedom of speech, which motivates democratic political changes too improve the planet.

I heard just yesterday that the US Congress was trying to pass a bill that would censor the worlds internet. Although online piracy is a strong motive, the real reason is to prevent the worlds people from having a democratic voice. As the more we all see the starvation, inequality, war, corruption, deceit, the more we all strive to make constructive changes to a this over protected sick system.... The vast majority actually want a kinder more equal planet, but right now the system is motivated by profits, and profits motivate dictatorship and corruption.

We must realize our ability to use technology to create a new system of global wealth beyond traditional hierarchy and suffering. It will take time, and we must continue to produce films which show the world as a whole, for us to really understand our connection to the environment. (Watch the Zeitgeist movement movies for free on youtube to understand more about resource based economies)

It makes me upset to know that so many people fear death. But hopefully like me, people will grow to understand their real identity is the whole of planet earth, imagine looking at planet earth from a spaceship, we must learn to see earth as an organism like a tree, and people are just leaves on the tree, they die, but the tree still lives on as something greater. Its a big step to take and the thought process doesn't solidify over night,(took me two years to solidify this awareness) but, now I see all suffering as 'my own' as 'I am' the organism, and all joy as 'mine' too... and therefore we have a responsibility to remove all religion which promotes the thought processes of individualism and division. we have a responsibility make to make everyone's life blissful. AS I AM YOU, AND WE ARE ALL.

This movie enables us to think like ONE organism should.
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