It's Such a Beautiful Day

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I really liked the story and the animation but the narrator drove me crazy. Every sentence has the same pitch and tone and delivered in this breathy whine. Its extremely off-putting.

Too much goin on to even concentrate on anything! What a nightmare from start to finish. If you have multiple layers of audio it is hard to focus , ever watched TV while the radio is on ? Also we have stick figures and random stills as the video. I would rather watch a small child draw stick figures then watch what some supposed adults draw them . The other reviewers gave this ratings higher than The Godfather and The Shawshank Redemption.!! Obviously the creators or family and friends of these people. Anyways i hope this sheds some light on what you are in for , i wish i would've known better!

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I created an account just so that I could write this review. The movie starts out slow, but it gets so good after the first half. This movie gets better each time and the animation is amazing. It's hard to believe no computers were used! This is a true work of art. It isn't often that I would consider something art, but this is special. I typically prefer action movies and other movies that don't require a lot of mental energy, but this movie has totally changed my perspective. A movie of this quality comes along once in a generation. I hope I'm lucky enough to see this kind of genius again. BEST MOVIE EVER!!!

I ran across this on Netflix and thought "wow, this guy won an award for drawing stick men?" So I watched it with a disdainful bit of envy at first, being an aspiring visual artist. While watching, I was disturbed by the subject matter and the obviously unhinged and intentionally melancholy atmosphere. I watched it in pieces, the first part during a bout of insomnia, the second with my girlfriend after drinking three spiced rum and ginger ale on the rocks, and the last part this morning when I woke up early. I am not sure how to describe this piece, is it genius or sadistic? It basically does make you really think about things. I already do that a lot, so I am compelled to wonder if this film really impacted me the way it was intended to. The main Character, Bill, really seems a bit like he isn't self aware at all. I guess there are some redeeming qualities this film maker needed to share about life from the perspective of disorientation. My final conclusion? Don't watch this bit of film making unless you want to feel disengaged from humanity and disillusioned by mixed feelings about the meaning of life. It is definitely a film making experience, just not one I am sure I would recommend.

When I sat down to watch this, I had never heard of Don Hertzfeldt, the genius behind "It's Such a Beautiful Day." Since then, I've watched every single film he has made at least three times. This film changed the way I look at art; film, music and literal art, in the form of paintings. It is truly incredible. Hertzfeldt's animation style in one of the best in the industry, and has now become my favourite. The story that is told in the series of shorts will make you laugh, cry and consider why you are even living. The way that the simple animation style is composited on screen is unique, and also works seeing as it is told from Bill's perspective. The main character, Bill, is a lonely, confused stickman, who suffers from depression and a mental disorder. The things he dreams up or the hallucinations he sees show Hertzfeldt's absurd humour, which will confuse you and also make you laugh. The questions that he asks will stay in your head for a very long time. The fact that this masterpiece was produced entirely one person with no help from computers makes the film stand out even more. I don't know whether I'll ever watch a film the same again.

At parts, in the first half, I saw some gems. Not enough to watch the hour. Nothing ties together. The little boy with aluminum hooks for hands, who swims out to sea after the seagulls? Pointless, unless I missed some realization before turning it off in disgust. Better use of simultaneous imagery and speech than in most projects that use these techniques.

I've just finished this film for the first time and struggle to find the words to describe it. It is funny in that dark Hertzfeldt way. But it is so much more than that. It ties the humor of humanity in with the pain of being human. It's a Beautiful Day tells, mostly in present tense, the story of Bill. The entire time we are laughing at Bill's misfortunes, we empathize, he is becoming a part of us. We soon find we are laughing at ourselves and our world. The story starts like many of Hertzfeldt's shorter films. The telling of this story, at first, comes off kind of clumsy, as if its creator struggled with such a large canvas on which to tell it. But the pieces are violently shoved together in a moment that makes Hertzfeldt's genius come to light. This moment which gives a greater sense of the story is followed by several more that cut me to the core. In my opinion, this story is agonizingly beautiful and is rich with that transparent honestly only Hertfeldt has seemed to be able to accomplish via film/animation.