So this is it guys! today is finally the day that Ridley Scott and Kevin Macdonald have arbitrarily decided is the most representative day of everyone's life! Today we're supposed to take our digital cameras, flips, and iphones and hit the world with a smoldering heap of reality.
Apparently, any footage of your life will do, they want to get an idea of what life is like for everyone out there at this point in history. Or rather, what life is like for everyone with a camcorder at this point in history. Not to mention the total lack of poignance in the choice of day. But I suppose that's the point.
So whats going to happen when 98% of the footage is from californians (75% of which is southern california, 65% of which is in LA county) and 99.9% is from the US? With the remaining world totally left out of the loop, unaware of this projects existence, I have feeling deep down in my organ-guts that this new film will consist primarily of people swallowing lattes, then coronas, then their pride.
It'll be a lot of well-spent tears on the recent sale of the new beamer, then the saturday bbq's, maybe even some stressful ranting about potential pitfalls of being a californian. There'll probably be a significant amount of people complaining about unemployment, lack of medical care, fear of global warming, and a nervousness for the moral future of our increasingly godless society.
When the footage rolls in I doubt it'll titillate or enervate nearly as much the "Last King Of Scotland" arguably Macdonald's only real movie. But maybe there'll be something to learn as we watch our coworkers, neighbors, and ourselves talk about what makes us laugh. Hopefully he'll sift through the 45,000 "Videos on Youtube" responses that he's sure to get.
Maybe the one thing we'll see, after we watch how different each of our days are, is just how similar we all are. No, I'm just kidding, southern california is vastly superior to the rest of the earth. Thats why everyone watches movies that are written, funded, and cast by people HERE in SoCal (Southern California). One thing's for damn sure, the iPhone with a set of keys and a wallet is gonna get old really damn soon.
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