It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012)
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- Synopsis:
Bill is a young man whose daily routines, perceptions, and dreams are illustrated onscreen through multiple split-screen windows, which are in turn narrated (by Don Hertzfeldt). The Narrator subtly explains that Bill is suffering from a problematic memory disorder, which interferes with his seemingly mundane life. Bill often has meetings with his unnamed ex-girlfriend, and had been recently referred to a clinic for his condition. On a visit to the clinic, Bill's doctor recommends that Bill have a new batch of medication, after his recent treatment didn't yield any positive results. It is unknown if Bill did take the new medication, as he undergoes a hallucinatory experience the next morning and then stays awake the following night. The next day Bill suffers more hallucinations, seeing monsters and ripping his own head open... - Directors:
- Don Hertzfeldt
- Producers:
- Don Hertzfeldt
- Voiced By:
- Don Hertzfeldt, Sara Cushman
- Narrated By:
- Don Hertzfeldt
- Writers:
- Don Hertzfeldt
- Genres:
- Anime & Animation, Children & Family
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Reviews (1) of It's Such a Beautiful Day
Death, Dust and Stick Figures - It's Such a Beautiful Day review by griggs
This absolutely should not hit as hard as it does. It is a stick figure, some scratchy line drawings and a voiceover, and yet somewhere along the line It’s Such a Beautiful Day stops being a clever little oddity and turns into something weirdly huge.
Bill drifts through illness, memory, routine and whatever is left when your mind stops behaving itself, and Don Hertzfeldt somehow makes all of that funny, sad and faintly terrifying at once. The rough animation is part of the trick. It strips everything back so completely that the deadpan narration and the tiny shifts in feeling land even harder. Some of the jokes are so perfectly timed they would make much bigger films look a bit daft.
What really got me is how casually it deals with mortality. Not with swollen importance or Oscar-bait solemnity, but with this odd mix of silliness, tenderness and cosmic panic. It is bleak, yes, but also oddly life-affirming in a way that sneaks up on you. A strange little marvel.