Life in a Day 2020 review – ambitious, bizarre and hugely exasperating

Kevin Macdonald’s film aims to give a snapshot of the modern world but its context-free clips look more like a corporate adSensory overload and incoherence are sadly the dominant qualities of this idealistic crowdsourced YouTube video project from director Kevin Macdonald and executive producer Ridley Scott, which is about everything and nothing.It is a follow-up to Macdonald’s Life in a Day movie from 2011, in which legions of people responded to a request to send in homemade videos