When we go to the movies, we expect that we will be back in our car and heading home within just a couple of hours. Most movies tend to be between 90 minutes and two hours, although there are some that have hit the three-hour mark in recent years.
If you really want to go to a longer movie, however, then perhaps you would enjoy seeing Logistics. It was released in Sweden in 2012, and it takes 35 days and 17 hours to watch the movie.
Swedish filmmakers Erika Magnusson and Daniel Andersson are responsible for this monumental movie. It is actually an experiment, and it doesn’t have a structure as you would expect in a standard movie.
The film even has its own website, saying that there was a question that got them to start: “Where do all the gadgets come from?”
During the course of the movie, they attempt to answer the question.
At the beginning of the movie, an item is sold in Stockholm at a store. The movie then begins moving backward through time to show the journey the product took to reach the customer.
Some of the different places where you will find yourself when watching logistics include riding on a train, a truck, and a container ship. It even takes you back to China, where the product got its start.
Rather than quickly jumping from one scene to another, the trip is in real-time. You get to see the distance and time associated with each and every leg of the journey.
It can be difficult to sit through such a long movie, but fortunately, there is a chopped-down version that is only 72 minutes.
Then again, other films have been longer in the past, such as Hamlet from 1996, which was over two hours long, and Cleopatra from 1963, which was similar.
Trying to watch 857 hours of the movie made to show the travel of a single product, however, may not work very well.