I just wanted to share with you a truly inspiring film that I watched this morning. Although it doesn't follow the usual form of a film its editing and the way it is all pieced together carries a strong message to its audience. I also find it interesting how a film can be produced by people just like me and you who show little snippets of their lifestyle on this particular day which ended up winning an Oscar award.
I wont ruin it for you if you decide to watch it but some stories that stand out the most for me include the Korean man who has cycled around 190 countries over 2 years. He was hit by a car 6 times and 5 of these times has had to have surgery! He wanted to prove to his country where North and South Korea don't get along that the impossible can be turned possible. This man appears a few times throughout the documentary and I found him inspiring due to his motivation to try and change something that no one believes can happen.
There is also a young boy who is a shoe shiner and goes out to work each day to try and make some money for his family. He believes that because his family get the food, prepare the food and look after him that he should do something in return. I found this inspiring as it is a completely different world it seems to what we live in here in England as we don't have shoe shiners on the street let alone little children out working.
The 'Love Parade' is a large festival where you see thousands of people enjoying themselves to music just like we would here. However this parade becomes too overcrowded and leads to people becoming crushed and trampled on as they can't escape out of the huge crowd that has formed. In fact 18 people were killed and in the film you can see clearly that its a challenge for even the ambulance crew to be able to get through the thousands of people.
What stands out most to me in this film is that although it highlights the richer from the poorer countries it shows that everyone is happy living the way that they do. It emphasises the different religions and cultures and beliefs that certain nations hold. You see how the people live in the rain forest and have to set up traps to get food and build their own shelters. And the young boy that follows a routine each day consisting of lighting a candle and ringing a bell to say good morning to the picture of his mother who has died.
The film also has themes of people's loves, fears and what they have in their pockets. I really liked this as the answers differed largely from individuals personality's and experiences to the way they live their lives and their beliefs. It was evident that a lot of countries have a strong belief in God (or their own idea of a God) as peoples fears revolved around God and death whereas 'loves' were mainly children and other people which I found interesting as this would be a popular answer with most people here in England.
The whole documentary highlights that something good is supposed to happen everyday in every ones lives no matter where they are or what their life is like compared to others. It also gives an incite into lives all over the world that we would go for weeks, months maybe years without thinking about or even knowing anything about. Its affective as we understand and appreciate our own lives more by stopping for a moment, standing back and watching all of these different people and how they live from a distance.
The editing of this film was the most effective part as it puts together all these contrasting snippets of films into a documentary that makes sense and still follows an order. My favourite example of this is when it comes to making breakfast and it shows people pouring milk, getting milk from goats, toast in the toaster etc which are taken from clips across the whole world uniting us all together with our own ways.
Overall this documentary makes it's audience realise how much is going on across the whole world in the space of our day to day routine. It also reminds and in some circumstances educates us on other cultures from across the world who don't want to be forgotten about.
- A powerful and successful film that I would rate 9/10 as in some snippets of the film I feel that it went on for too long and should have been edited down a bit to allow other clips from across the world in.
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