The risk, director Kevin Macdonald admitted, was that the project might end up like an old Coke ad, enervatingly bland in its we-are-the-worldiness and smotherly brotherly love. And to some extent the fear was warranted: "Life in a Day", a documentary compiled from footage sent to YouTube, celebrates a shared humanity very like that which such ads seek to engender. It just does it much better.
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