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Film Review: Life In A Day Response
Life in a Day Response

Life in a Day is a film composed of many short videos by different people of what was happening in their life on July 24, 2010. The clips varied greatly from a news photographer in Afghanistan to a Korean man traveling the world on his bicycle. This film truly showed how differently many people live. After watching it, I feel very fortunate to be where I am in life and to have had all of the opportunities that I’ve been given so far. Many people were not given the opportunities and luxuries that others were given. Some people, even children, have to do with what they’re given and are barely making it by, as in one clip that shows a child working as a shoe shiner just to make a little bit of money or in another that

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