EVERYTHING WILL BE OK by DON HERTZFELDT

IT'S SUCH A BEAUTIFUL DAY, the feature film that compiles all three chapters of Bill's story (EVERYTHING WILL BE OK (2006), I AM SO PROUD OF YOU (2008), and IT'S SUCH A BEAUTIFUL DAY (2011)), is now available on Blu-ray: www.bitterfilms... :: The entire film is also now streaming on-demand at Vimeo: vimeo.com/onde...
EVERYTHING WILL BE OK was originally released theatrically in 2006. The following year, it received the Sundance Film Festival's Grand Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking.

[@Hawkinator-gv9nt]

Back in middle school, my best friend was obsessed with everything that was beautifully strange. Naturally, this movie was his absolute favorite. For a while, he kept encouraging me to watch it. I kept putting it off because I was only really just getting into movies like that, only for him to keep pushing me to watch it. Eventually, I gave in and told him that we could watch it at his birthday sleepover in 2 weeks. He was content with this, and we both made a deal out of it. A week before his birthday, he passed away in a car crash. As soon as I found out, I put everything down and watched this movie. I owed it to him. To this day, I have never felt such raw emotion. I'd give anything for a chance to sit down and watch this with him. I miss you, bud.

[@bounceysteve]

You have the creators blessing!

[@ladylestranj]

Everything will be ok.....

[@roguebuddha]

Thank you for sharing, I can feel you.

[@nina.k666]

I was going to add this video to the "Watch Later" playlist and forget about it for a while. But I'll watch it now, in solidarity. It's all fleeting, isn't it.

[@Hawkinator-gv9nt]

@@nina.k666 I wholeheartedly agree. Do things in the moment, because the moment is all that's guaranteed. I hope you enjoyed this phenomenal movie

[@SaltpeterTaffy]

As much as I love the emotional side of this movie, my favorite part is still easily the first 50 seconds. Nothing in this movie resonated with me more than Bill saying "weh."

[@grzegorznonszalancki7604]

the ending is making me burst with tears, the part with "what in the hell is wrong with that mug" makes me sob and when he opens he's eyes and see he's girlfriend... that's a whole new emotion.

[@UniverseOfAtoms]

I scanned the comments hoping for someone to validate this exact sentiment. It's one of the best film intros I can think of.

[@1WEareBUFO1]

@@grzegorznonszalancki7604 a lot of this makes me cry. .. but you're forgetting his dreams. >"that night bill dreamed he was by the seaside, desperately throwing dead bodies off of a little boat." this really gets me because when i had a worse time with mental health issues i had that ' really tired when you wake up , surreal nightmare thing happen a LOT. '

[@1WEareBUFO1]

@@UniverseOfAtoms my bf said and i quote " I'm not quite so enamored with that ( this ) as you are." and refused to watch it with me. does he even love me?

[@MemoryOfTheRose]

Me: hey how are you! Old friend: good how are you! Me: good how about you!

[@serotoninsyndrome]

"The following Tuesday, Bill had to return to work..." The most important and depressing line in the film....

[@notahamster333]

I can already feel the dreadfulness behind that line...

[@0neIntangible]

I was really hoping that Bill would beam a long awaited, contented, all is right with the world today private smile on the last closing scene on his rainy Tuesday morning bus ride to work.

[@sparkstudies1675]

@@0neIntangible Honestly I don't know if it was the intention or whether this is sarcasm, but after watching everything that Bill went through, I have a newfound appreciation for even the smallest most mundane of things. Like if I were Bill in that moment, I would be more than okay with that bus ride. Being able to see the rain around me and experience that exact moment would be all that I needed. So personally I kind of like that it ended like that.

[@lurkingShadows]

15:20 notice how beautiful the music is now, how pleasant the rainfall is. I was reminded of “Zombieland” rule 32, enjoy the little things.

[@augustooliva9660]

"bill picked up his new medication, went home and masturbated for seven hours"

[@danielplainview2584]

Bill felt used.

[@DCNRS90YT]

Poor bill

[@snuggllikespuggls1390]

Dont we all feel used ?

[@burnbabyburneternally]

Thank you, Daniel. Now I will drink your milkshake *slurrrrrrrrrrrp*

[@insertbrainhere6410]

Its sad how much I can relate to feeling used

[@Sum67]

Bill will never consent.

[@mistermini1514]

The part with the uncle and the line "He looked vaguely annoyed." Hits me like a truck every time. In 2019 I spent half a year in a psychiatry to better my mental health, as I had been severely depressed for a long time. The amount of times I felt like my attempt to improve my mental state was seen by my family like an annoyance or inconvenience were nearly innumerable. At times it felt as if they would have preferred that I had just stayed depressed instead. I still distinctly remember after I got back home, but still didn't feel ok and wasn't ready to get a job, my father said to me: "We ALLOWED you to stay in the psychiatry for half a year. Now get a job and carry your weight." Can you imagine saying this to someone who had been in the hospital trying to get better for 6 months? Why would it be ok to say to someone who had been in the mental hospital trying to get better for 6 months? The uncle being "vaguely annoyed" at having to visit Bill in the hospital encapsulates this perfectly.

[@TomoyoTatar]

That's not ok. Your dad is an asshole. I remember being forcibly institutionalized because I was depressed and scuicidal. When my mom came to get me out after a few months, she acted like a narcissistic ahole. I felt trapped in the car, and she didn't understand. I feel trapped in small places now because I was locked in solitary a lot while in the hospital because I refused taking lithium and respiradone. They would grab 6-8 guys, carry me off to the white solitary room kicking and screaming and inject me. It was hell. They misdiagnosed me with schizo, which I can tell you I one hundred percent do not have and was later diagnosed appropriately with depression and high functioning autism. My mother said something really crappy I dont remember so I told her to go eff herself; after that my mother told me she would turn the car around and take me back to the hospital if I kept acting this way. My reply was: "No, mother, if you keep acting this way, I will jump out of the car now and kill myself. They will never take me alive again. I said that, looking straight into her eyes. She was very quiet and scared. After that I said, "I will live my life the way I want from now on, you will never have control over me again, no one will, and if they try, they will suffer immensely." For the most part, it's true; I took charge of my life. I never went back to medical school, which I was forced to go through, and to live as an A+ plus honor roll student with a white dress shirt and blonde hair. I now live my life as I want. As a weirdo who loves doing her weird hobbies and living with a slow paced job I am okay with and weird colored streaks in my hair. I've never been more content with my life.

[@mistermini1514]

@@TomoyoTatar that's gotta be harrowing being misdiagnosed and institutionalized against your will. I can barely even imagine how frustrating that would be, and I probably would have had a similar reaction. Personally I got into a psychiatry voluntarily and it was in a department where you had a lot of freedom so I was ok with it. I do really feel you about the studying/job part though. I used to be a student with really good grades, and everyone expected me to go into a university and get a high paying job. But now I have a job at a fruit and vegetable store, which is more slowly paced and doesn't stress me out 24/7 the way studying did, making me a much more happy person than I used to be. Only downside I guess is that people seem to assume that me quitting uni means I'm dumb. But I guess people underestimating you also means they will more often be pleasently surprised by you. You keep doing you, living at your own pace, and be happy!

[@dorkporkknobslob9918]

I was the Meg Griffin of my family too and had very similar experiences. My sister and parents used to urge me to kill myself. But for me it was more the Uncle was annoyed because he knew you weren’t the problem and that everyone else was. He was annoyed you were even put through any of it. He was annoyed with himself for not raising you and giving you not just the better life but the best life where he would have loved you more than you could tell.

[@TomoyoTatar]

@Mister Mini Man it truly was hell; but don't discount yourself or your slow paced job. People need to eat and people need groceries. If they wanna say you're unintelligent because of it, that's on them. They don't know your story or your life. As long as you feel fulfilled and happy and can live a functional life that's all that really matters! ♡

[@TomoyoTatar]

@@dorkporkknobslob9918 I'm glad you're okay 😓✌️❤️

[@dragonsember]

im schizophrenic and this is really powerful and represents aspects of the condition well

[@Its_a_Snax]

Dog Meat DOOOG MEEEAAT

[@Cherry-bq4oh]

I think bill has some kind of brain tumour imo

[@EmployeeJoe630]

Dammit I knew all those raider bats to the head couldn't have been good for you, boy.

[@godawful5600]

I Accidentally Myself i nearly pissed myself laughing at this omfg

[@rustyshackleford5166]

You are not alone. O.0

[@lordawesometony2764]

“How could you think I would ever hurt you?” Too deep. Wrestling with the intimacy of the human experience.

[@ScutoidStudios]

and the fact that it gets even deeper with the added context from chapter 2...

[@diegomo1413]

That part will NEVER fail to make my eyes moist.

[@moosesues8887]

@@diegomo1413 moist eyes 😭

[@jessicahay9305]

I had a patient who I loved very much at the nursing home where I work. He suffered from schizophrenia. Even when no one else could get him to take his meds, he always took them from me. I'll never forget the way it felt when he finally decided maybe I was trying to poison him too and wouldn't accept his meds from me. That's exactly how I felt. "How could you ever think I would hurt you" I had to remind myself that it was his disease telling him that.

[@Grandzlo]

Oh, yes. These words make me cry.

[@alpacario336]

I'm surprised no one else seems to have noticed that when Bill destroys the sign it goes from "Bus Stop" to "Bill Stop"

[@jenniferleyzaola5700]

Me,I did

[@丫o]

I bet lots of people did, they just didn’t feel the need to comment about it. They probably figured that if they saw it, others probably did, too. Unsurprisingly, they were right.

[@JackRabbit1612]

@@丫oYou should spend more time being an asshole in comment sections !

[@paulgeyer2471]

Thank you I missed that

[@tonybutler4440]

This is a notice that I noticed that you noticed the bus stop sign change thank you for noticing this notice.

[@MusicLove6789]

Bill’s intense fixation on preservation even after death is so defeating in parallel to the continuous loss of his mind

[@userpanda1]

Whenever I'm in the grocery store, I remember this video and think about the crotch-level fruit

[@durarara9233]

@スポイムズSpooms me too

[@BranGrizz]

always grab from the back, that's where the more fresh produce is anyway.

[@1WEareBUFO1]

mmmmhmmm . this stays with you.

[@smoog]

Mmmmmmm....crotch level fruit. My favorite!

[@ellief4277]

It sticks with you, doesn’t it? I do the same thing!

[@user-yw9cu7dc3l]

I remember accidentally clicking on this on Netflix while just chilling with my partner at the time and we were engaged in it from the first minute. We ended up watching the whole thing uninterrupted. after it finished there was literally about 2 minutes of pure silence before I just said "wow" and I looked over to see that both of us were actually pretty close to tears. I've loved this movie ever since.

[@toga941]

This auto played after I watched What's eating Gilbert Grape and I ended up watching it. Needless to say it was a very emotional night.

[@boundlessrogue85]

I saw it on Netflix too. I thought, "Wow. A feature-length by the guy who did 'Rejected'? I'm in." By the end I was practically sobbing.

[@jettion35]

I used to show this movie to every friend i had. Now i have it bought so i can do it always.

[@isabe11e99]

The way I found this movie was similar, my friends and I took a tab of acid and I clicked on this video just because it looked interesting, but it was so perfect for the trip completely stumbled upon it by accident and we were left kind of mind blown

[@lauriemurphy1947]

Exactly the same way I discovered it. Still my favorite movie to this day.

[@babyhighspeed389]

I never thought a stick figure could relay such a sadness...however, after seeing the spot where he just set in the room, took his hat off and rubbed his head. Just broke my heart. Don is a genius at his art.

[@lorenacheverez3721]

Hollywood cannot compete with this kind of films. This is art. simply beautiful.

[@YellowJelly13]

+Lorena Cheverez Great film, but just because this is art doesn't make it good (nor just because it's good it's art). Just in case.

[@consmos]

You should check out The Banana Pirates by Beefpastecartoons. And gaze upon the Brain Devil.

[@HR3464]

Nice work stating the obvious ;-)

[@mojorising0071950]

definitely! too deep for them

[@strangewayfaringstranger]

Yeah they can.

[@dadamining750]

Watched the full feature on Netflix and I have to say, as someone who has family with paranoid schizophrenia and has lost (and is losing) others to Alzheimer's, I've never been so completely moved and devastated by a depiction of mental deterioration, memory loss, and flight from reality. Visceral, existential, and painfully beautiful. I'll never look at their experiences the same way. And I can imagine returning to these images in my latter years if I'm one of the many struck by senility or other neurological disease. All the awards to Mr. Hertzfeldt, please.

[@rotisseriepossum]

Definitely check out ‘everywhere at the end of time’ by the caretaker: it’s a similar experience but in music form and far longer

[@mojorising0071950]

Isn't he incredible? so insightful, compassionate, and a perspective unlike any other probably in the universe. He is really something

[@Thanatos9]

@@rotisseriepossum thanks for that recommendation, i love it!

[@strangewayfaringstranger]

I look at it more from my perspective having bipolar, borderline personality disorder and depression.

[@nath1606]

@@rotisseriepossum I have already listened to eateot & then came to this. I feel like this one touches on what the meaning of life is & why we're here, by using memory degradation as it's platform. It's narrative driven & has a sense of humour to it. You're watching someone else's story unfold. With Everywhere At The End of Time, it's specifically about dementia. When you listen to it, you are put in the shoes of someone who suffers from dementia; it's cold, claustrophobic & brutally unforgiving, but beautiful in its own way nonetheless.

[@PaulMenking]

"Then he wondered if, realistically, this was his life..."

[@jxomxo]

that part killed me.

[@MemoryOfTheRose]

Jake Martin yeah it made me feel weird

[@jxomxo]

MemoryOfTheRose it gave me an existential crisis

[@dioc8699]

It lead me to suicide

[@theshockinglyeloquentdog9945]

@@dioc8699 did you live?

[@Lilcutiepie95]

Yeah, my existential despair was not helped by this.

[@robertcunningham1672]

+lilAtheistgirl Watch the other 2 parts. It might help.

[@harveystew]

THE PIPE IS LEAKING!!!!!

[@1WEareBUFO1]

the ending might , like ^ they said. the middle probanly won't, honestly. Bill's Grandma is a trip

[@Taiya1805]

Same here..

[@1WEareBUFO1]

*but he's not going to die here* ?

[@Tslayer98]

I watched this on Netflix some years ago, I was 14. I remember feeling so bad for Bill, I really wanted to be his friend. I just wanted to hug him you know? I thought he deserved that. Now I’m becoming Bill. Now I need the hug.

[@MindlessMegaLawl]

Virtual, long hug ❤

[@kaizu-semidemon2333]

Man are.. are ok? Its strange but we are here maybe a virtual Hug?

[@rmoort5145]

I am here for you buddy.

[@Vaporstruck]

Don't worry. Everything will be ok.

[@ThomasBomb45]

Hugs

[@XiaoAndyPugMan]

I can't even describe how beautifully relatable and poignant this was. Just, bravo, Don. Bravo.

[@ratatist7205]

Xiao Andy lol

[@JoaquimGamerYT]

johny bravo? from the tv show of the nintees?

[@AJ_Deadshow]

"...and how many days of his life were wasted, repeating the same tasks and rituals in his apartment, over and over again... But then he wondered if, realistically, this was his life, and the unusual part was his time spent doing other things." Felt that.

[@caittails]

“She had to have his casket returned, at great expense.” Why is no one talking about this sentence?? What an absolute BURDEN he must feel…his mother incurred great expense simply because he DIDN’T DIE? I’ve felt like a burden to my family my entire life, so the feeling that living is already a burden and to have that CONFIRMED by the fact that you literally caused someone you love financial burden by not dying…like, fuck, man. That’s all. Just…fuck.

[@sudospective]

It took me 7 full watches of this movie to realize that 4:07 gives is a pretty big clue into how Bill has been feeling this whole time.

[@greenaum]

Brain damage in a boxing match? Nah I think maybe Bill, or whatever's in charge of Bill's brain, is sympathising with someone having their head severely injured, but his seeing a doctor for extensive treatment implies something going wrong internally, perhaps a tumour. The doctor mentions a planned surgery, which could possibly be to remove a blood clot caused by a punch to the head, but it seems like the problem has been going on longer than that.

[@Joeh_]

I noticed the hat but I didn't think it was bill

[@Wack910]

a head splitting headache?

[@409guzzler]

i knew it! he was the giant mantis this whole time!

[@noahterrell5934]

This video arouses in me an intense fear of death and wasted time. I always act like I have nothing to fear and that I'm not afraid, and I've even convinced myself that everything will be okay. But this video makes me face all the feelings that I've pushed down deep inside myself and believed don't exist. I am going to die. Existence is a pure coincidence and nothing matters. My life will be filled with doing the same repetitive, inane, boring tasks that ultimately do nothing but waste the one infinitely valuable and limited resource we have: time. And I could've told you all of this before watching this, but I couldn't have believed it. And I am afraid. This film is really amazing.

[@SantaFishes101]

But everything isn't in vain. What about reincarnation and the fact that life isn't coincidence? lol. Don't forget about that stuff, please.

[@LuigiShroom12]

But what if those are just theories thought up by humans to not fear death as much?

[@SantaFishes101]

Nebbers .... But don't you feel things in your gut, though? .-. Plus, matter cannot be created or destroyed... Only moved. So consciousness should be the same, no? :3

[@IntrovertedE]

No. If you have a house made out of legos, take it apart it and mix up the pieces, where is the house? It's not in the pieces. Those pieces can become boats or planes or whatever. The house is an arrangement. Once destroyed, the arrangement is gone. Consciousness is also an arrangement. Hate to scare you.

[@SantaFishes101]

IntrovertedE But a house is not a person. Anyways, even if the house turns into a plane or a boat, it is still something. Even if it just lies as a pile of legos, it is still a thing. Even shattered the soul exists. I don't care what you think. The truth does not, either.

[@Doodlecream]

"after lunch, bill put on the lion king slippers and flew to the bus stop"

[@violethill4454]

truly emotional and inspirational at the same time, this quote actually changed my perspective in life.

[@notahamster333]

You've never flew to the bus stop with your slippers before?

[@s2000s7]

I have bipolar disorder with psychosis. I recently was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and had a psychotic break which lasted about a week. I blacked out when the doctor called me. I was paranoid and delusional for days. I had panic attacks that left me on the floor unable to move. I’ve been feeling better since then. I happened to see this video on accident. I have never felt like my experience could be expressed with any sort of media. Nothing I’ve ever seen has come nearly as close to my reality as this. I feel so seen and heard. This perfectly shows how psychosis episodes happen. Everything goes back to normal eventually. It always ends up okay. In the moment it is so terrifying and confusing. But it will be okay. To anyone else out there going through this, I’m sorry. I hope you are well. Take your meds, eat, drink water, and rest. You will be okay.

[@Nihilater97]

15:20 always tugs on my heart. Go back and live a normal life like everything is okay when everything isn't

[@captainstrangiato961]

The last 2 minutes of this is honestly one of the best moments in cinema history.

[@jos-tf4id]

absolutely

[@PeninsulaPaintings]

Agreed. The movie could've ended there and it still would've been great! Though I do love the almost sarcastic real ending of "Oh what? You don't think Bill should die here? Okay fine. He doesn't. Ever. He outlives everyone, even the universe itself. Better now? See how ridiculous it is to put such an unrealistic end to Bill's story?"

[@meattoboggan6424]

I watched this on Netflix.... And cried for the next 3 days

[@PariahMessiah83]

+Broden Szetey The flashback of his girlfriend from pillow-pov gets me just *thinking* about it.

[@TheCodingDuck]

+Broden Szetey I watched this, and laughed for the next three hours.

[@PariahMessiah83]

TheOnly1Zalo It can be quite the emotional experience on the way through, but I like to think the take-away message from it is to not fear our mortality.

[@AthenaHiotis]

my experience was the same. I cried so much. it was too many feelings and emotions. so glad you were moved by this

[@panks787]

+Athena Hiotis just everything about this is memorizing. scary. happy. it's so real.

[@MasterWilczu]

I come back here again. And again. And again. And again. And again.

[@largebock7443]

Wilczurin same

[@spartacus8661]

^

[@strangewayfaringstranger]

No you don't.

[@MasterWilczu]

@@strangewayfaringstranger Yes I do.

[@strangewayfaringstranger]

@@MasterWilczu Yeah only cause I commented haha.

[@aaronhansen762]

My heart broke after hearing "How could you think I would ever want to hurt you?"

[@kennethsagers8576]

im a CNA and Ive worked with 100 Bills. People with neurological injury or unspecified illness are brought in after being found in some haphazard state. I've seen a lot of people go from being unable to talk and experiencing deep hallucination to having to families preparing for death to returning to work in this fashion. This seems in line with brain damage from alcoholism which is common, but I'm just a CNA. Anyway this is my favorite movie and I cry every time and I'm crying a lot now.

[@jamiehoward6906]

♥️🌸♥️

[@byronius7012]

"Hey, Bill" "How's Up!" "Thanks" "Weh" "Y-you too"

[@byronius7012]

I don't remember leaving this comment the fuck

[@laylover7621]

@@byronius7012 Lmao happens to me sometimes.

[@100acatfishandwillbreakyou2]

@@byronius7012 Kinda fucky that sometimes someone will engage with me on a comment I left almost ten years ago. As if no time had passed, just a thought I had frozen in time. I didn't even know it was there.

[@R0bertRodriguez]

@@byronius7012 lol, happens to all of us

[@jmalmsten]

@@byronius7012 So I guess you felt used?

[@DavidDylanFisher]

I want this played at my funeral. "Sometimes it was funny, sometimes sad, often scary, but mostly you don't really understand what the hell's going on. By the time it wraps up, you're kind of glad. Life's like that. Hopefully, you can enjoy it while it's going on. Try sharing it with a friend, that seems to help."

[@OctoganicAngel]

When I was 12, my sister and I called in to a local classical music radio station and requested La Moldau. The radio personality was thrilled by this.

[@elcuy3544]

I read this in the narrator's voice.

[@AJ_Deadshow]

​@@elcuy3544fitting

[@jackmcmuscles]

“How could you think I’d ever want to hurt you?” still hits like a brick after all these years

[@remisramosc]

I don't like to use the word "phenomenological" but this short is by far one of the best accounts of what mental illness feels like. I'm a teacher and every year I show this to my high school students. A lesson on empathy, and a overwhelmingly beautiful one.

[@fruitypeebils]

I also don’t like to use that word. Mainly because I have no idea what it means.

[@whateverIFeelLike]

I know you left this comment 4 years ago but do you still show this to your students? How do they respond?

[@grungebob0170]

I love the bits of comedy strewn through out this tragic yet beautiful story.

[@kylematthews3683]

The funniest part was the "I am in pain" button

[@cosmomcfloso5820]

Same

[@joopsnargis2730]

I don't know how to describe my thoughts while watching this... It's so haunting and chilling, but at the same time it's dull and just like a simple life. I sort of confused on how I feel and it's interesting. I didn't want to keep watching about halfway through but I couldn't stop...

[@InsomniaDoodles]

Same here.

[@jacklynch3333]

I felt the same way. Lots of emotions all over the place. One point I also felt nauseous. There is so much; so intense on many different sensory and analytical level. I was tired at the end, confused at what I was experiencing post movie. It was like a new feeling I couldnt label. I cried and then...didn't. I don't know how to say it.

[@CrodolookslikeFrody]

The full feature might be one of the most beautiful movies I’ve ever seen

[@resiniferatoxina4248]

Agree I just saw the movie today

[@kenny6449]

Thank you Netflix for introducing me to this film and filmmaker defintely watching his other shit

[@attckonutube]

Hes got another one coming out in a month called "world of tomorrow" I'M PUMPED!

[@seacreacherdiet]

Man I tried to watch "It's a beutiful day" last night but the person who was watching it with me was visibly shaken,so I turned it off,but for some reason.I was drawn to this wondering "what's next".

[@kenny6449]

tell me you finished it?

[@seacreacherdiet]

Kenny Williams Havent,stupid signing in Netflix glitch keeps happening. ;-;

[@kenny6449]

I believe I saw the whole the movie on youtube in like 3 or 4 15 min videos

[@Zellcie]

I'm not sure why but I can't stop crying.

[@DoctorMisterBilly]

Go find the other parts; it's really beautiful.

[@expression6180]

9:24 i like the delivery of this line

[@horsepowermultimedia]

This is literally the animation version of Everywhere at the End of Time. I can relate the hallucination and insanity scenes to the post-awareness stages of Everywhere at the End of Time.

[@bluegreenmagenta]

EATEOT has always made me think of this movie yeah

[@deaconschwarber5142]

EATEOT didn't invent forgetting you idiot

[@morales69]

i spent about a good half hour just bawling my eyes out after the movie ended. during the film, i started thinking about all of my memories as a child and how i couldn’t really remember anything but the bad things. but when i remembered good times, it felt like i was actually reliving it. it was very overwhelming but much needed. this movie made me open my eyes to some of my biggest fears i’ve been pushing away my whole life. thank you so much.

[@UberMenschNowFilms]

8:58 I was watching this at a friend's house a few years ago and his sister walked in on this part. Her reaction was priceless.

[@sting5956]

The bus scene at the end is the most beautiful thing I have ever experienced

[@ZetaByt]

*_by far my favorite video on youtube._*

[@Jerichonumber2]

Nice Profile Pic...... wink wink ;)

[@cujo503]

DOG LOBSTA!!!!

[@harveystew]

THE PIPE IS LEAKING!!!!!

[@poisongriffin1327]

My 2nd! My fav is all of the dhmis episodes.

[@edomoeli1347]

chito-chan 😢

[@jmalmsten]

"Bill felt used." The emotional rollercoaster of those first few minutes keeps getting me back to this short.

[@ihitterdal]

this trilogy is absolutely brilliant, and its depictions of mental illness are definitely some of the best i've seen (coming from the perspective of someone with relatively mild mental illness and a family history of the harsher class of mental illness that this film covers).

[@teamrealnew3827]

The only thing--and I mean the ONLY thing--I don't like about Hertzfeldt is that there is so little of his work to watch. But his unique process means that's unavoidable. Plus it gives me an excuse to watch his stuff tons of times, and I see something new every time, and I don't think I would have it any other way.. So maybe even that is yet another strength

[@DreP20]

Exactly

[@Decessus117]

This film is a work of art. Ever since I first saw it, I felt it was cutting straight down to what it means to be a flawed, scared creature in an amoral universe. Bill is one of the most tragic and true-to-life characters I've ever seen in film.

[@CourtTheCat]

This is just beautiful. Yes it is painfully depressing, but it is real life captured in 17 minutes. I believe that it is completely beautiful, much like the "I love you" Bill found written in the playground sand.

[@pepe2493]

Yes

[@strangewayfaringstranger]

I doubt Don will ever read this and it will ever matter much. But these films have truly helped me oddly. To be honest, I don't think anyone will read this. But I got a feeling I won't be around for long. Having to deal with depression, bipolar and borderline personality disorder too is part of it. I think that is also why I really relate to this whole thing. Of course, I just realized there's more parts to this, so I suppose before I depart, I must watch them. I often feel exactly the way Bill does. It is hard to put into words but when it is visualized like the above, I think it can be understood better. Some days, your brain is just a mess and nothing makes sense. And I think about these almost absurd things, random things. But then there are moments like the end, an almost melancholic bliss, something so brutally sad and depressing, yet beautiful. I just wanna say thank you to him.

[@EricaGamet]

It's six months later and I truly hope you're still here. DH's films have seen me through good and bad times... but they're always there like a secret hug with an old friend. I don't know you, but I know you would be missed if you left. My only cousin had bipolar disorder and he left this world way too soon. I never even got to share any of DH's work with him... it would have been just his cup of tea. So please continue being here... remember that depression lies... and that you are loved.

[@vigilantslacker6039]

Watching the full film CHANGED me. I had never cried so hard at anything in my life. I seriously recommend it

[@nautilume7114]

How can we watch it?

[@boundlessrogue85]

0:11-0:49 is so universally relatable it's hilarious.

[@hypergrad2254]

8:52 I spent a good hour looking through the internet, just for this little line

[@NoName-yq2jn]

This is really depressing. I mean, his uncle was annoyed that Bill wasn't going to die, and Bills mother had the flowers removed from his room when he was goin to live and found it extremely inconvenient and expensive to return his cascette while they both should be relieved and happy. Don makes really good animations, but his plots and dialoge are dark. Usually I laugh at his stuff though...

[@phillip_mcguinness7025]

The truly depressing part is how real it all is, and how so many people make a death in the family about them.

[@MemoryOfTheRose]

God..

[@lukethelegend9705]

No Name this is like Horse Girl, but before Horse Girl. Oh and with stick figures.

[@ManiacRacing]

"He tried to climb through it, but didn't have the strength to stand" Story of my life.

[@lovebugmarie7330]

The full film made me weep because I have a grandfather with dementia who really pisses me off sometimes because I didn't understand that flipping out on people was. Sign of dementia. I now don't get angry with him because I feel guilty. Also this film made me cry..

[@nikoleo2000]

this traumatized as a child, and now amazes meas an adult, this is enough proof to demonstrate the quality of this animations

[@TheKetsup]

I watched this with my ex at the Silent Film Theater (Cinefamily) some years ago. I remember thinking how strangely ironic / relatable the whole situation was... And then we had pie...

[@petrasishung780]

Then he angrily wondered why they didnt offer any asian porn, then he wondered why he wondered that.

[@JakeAmes255]

I bursted out laughing at that line

[@zulizethcastellanos2184]

I wonder that on a day to day basis

[@D00dman]

I'd be sad. "Why DID I think of that? Why can't I control what I think?"

[@Maurrokh]

@@D00dman Well that's the funny thing about thinking. You can't control what you think. Thoughts just sort of swim by, and you decide which one to catch.

[@strangewayfaringstranger]

Yeah clearly we watched the same thing.

[@spacemanlrs333]

The song at 1:40 is Les Pecheurs De Perles, Act 1: "Au Fond Du Temple Saint" (Nadir, Zurga) - Carlo Rizzi

[@tonykirchner5418]

What is the piece at the bus ride?

[@WaldoDoesGames]

@@tonykirchner5418 at the very beginning? Die Moldau by Bedrich Smetana

[@Cyburim]

@@WaldoDoesGames No @ 15:25

[@strangewayfaringstranger]

@@Cyburim It's the end of that song, listen at 12:35 kzbin.info/www/bejne/aXiXf36wost2Y7M

[@WitherVideos]

@@Cyburim Very late response but the song is the end of Moldau looped and layered over itself

[@brobruh7850]

I originally saw this when I was 13. I don’t know what it did to me but it sure did something.

[@jaybofa617]

It made you think

[@thissmiss6563]

This short film always fucks me up. It always instills within me both a feeling of peace and dread. A strange, depressing clarity I can't shake for weeks after watching, until like that first encounter, I forget it even happened.

[@thissmiss6563]

Idk who just liked this comment, but today was a really messed up day for me. I was lost in a sea of uncertainty and calls from the void, as depression will do to you, and seeing this as I was recalling my day kinda hit me in a way I couldn't really describe..

[@thissmiss6563]

PERSON LIKING MY COMMENTS. COMMENT BACK TO ME lmao make conversation

[@berrrylicious]

Every now and then I come to see Don's audiovisual work, and each time I am as moved as the first time. As a person with certain mental problems who has to face his day to day life in his work, in his family, and who has exploded several times and "everything is ok" again I can put myself in Bill's place. The world is a wonderful place, and we will never know what struggles the other person carries with them. Thank you Don, greetings from a nurse from a corner of South America. And take care, everyone.

[@Cherry-bq4oh]

One of the most beautiful pieces of art I've ever been lucky enough to see. Thank you for blessing the world with this...

[@sonomi2417]

"How could you think I would ever want to hurt you" hit me like a truck

[@hallowedition]

I think this is really about the neuroses most people suffer from - the constant chatter of the mind, most of it negative and messed up. bill is released from this at the end when he accepts the present moment for what it is. "it rained for the entire bus ride". beautiful

[@ActuatedGear]

hallowedition You could argue that in meta-analysis, but for Bill, it was an experience of full on mind inverting universe model, melting. That acid trip-esque voyage into madness is REALLY what the world can be like when your brain is malfunctioning.Some people imagine being burned alive. Some people SEE the wall melt into a pool of magots, wriggling the speaking face of their mother. The barrier between dreams and sensation evaporates because the sensors and processor that make up your brain and thus your mind, are corrupted.For Bill and for many people, that is as real as the air you breath because evrything that tells you that you are breathing air is telling them that the sky is raining sewage that is somehow shouting antisemitic rhetoric. Its completely real, even if it doesnt exist.

[@c2HitsButtons]

I haven't revisited this piece since before I got myself a bit of brain damage a little over five years ago. So much of this reminded me of my recovery. The disorientation, the confusion, the noise... Thinking his mother looked really old really hurt me now that I'm past the worst of it. I think that all over again every time I see my dad. And his uncle looking vaguely annoyed... My heart 😢 I've always loved this piece and now that I'm able to relate to it it's something of a spiritual experience to take in. I don't know who in your life went through Bill's story or how you came to the choices that you did, but this is a masterful depiction of an extremely specific kind of terror and I'm blown away by it.

[@DigitalApex]

I've seen Titanic, Marley and Me, Saving Private Ryan, Pursuit of Happyness, and The Green Mile. Never really got close to tears for any of them. This film. This film made me sob at the ending. Beautiful work of art, Don. Absolutely beautiful. Still recommend it to people to this day.

[@prestokrevlar]

A reminder to folks watching this now that Don made a feature length version that ends this story.

[@plutototoh]

The fact that the very beginning, 0:00 is where the most people rewind to tells you everything you need to know. It's worth watching the whole thing again and again

[@tertain4795]

So… as an autistic kid, this resonated so hard with me. I remember it was dark, I was in my room, and I started to watch the movie on Netflix. I related so much to the character, and at the time I didn’t know I had autism. But the way Bill viewed things, the way he interacted with other people, the way he was… like me. I think if I hadn’t seen this movie as a kid… I would have ended up being a much sadder person in life. This film really helped me understand myself and begin to love how I looked at the world. Thank you.

[@itscass4457]

i struggled with my mental health my whole life and always felt a sense of peaceful melancholy watching this movie. it's been my favorite since i was 11 or 12. now im 20 and diagnosed with terminal glioblastoma and it just hits different

[@theancientsam]

Hey man read "lies my dr told me" by dr ken berry, he also has a yt page I hope this helps 😊

[@wintermintleaf]

as somebody with CPTSD this film just makes me feel like itll all be alright. the world is such a beautiful, detailed place

[@thisisjupiter112]

kinda wished the other parts were available on youtube. this is honestly pretty cool

[@caroline-pm4mo]

this method of visual storytelling is beautiful

[@jabberjayy]

man the part where his mom asks why he'd ever think she'd want to hurt him hits really close to home...I mean just wow, I cant imagine what my mom must have went through. it kinda sucks you know, when the people you care about and care for you back start thinking you're out to hurt them...

[@TheJacksonFR]

I'm a huge movie buff. I've seen all the famous 'list-topping' movies, and have, respectively, loved them all; CITIZEN KANE, 2001: A SPACE ODDYSEY, CASABLANCA, THE GODFATHER, BLUE VELVET, VERTIGO, TAXI DRIVER, RAGING BULL, etc. etc. But dammit, IT'S SUCH A BEAUTIFUL DAY is, without a doubt, the greatest film of all time. It's an endlessly intellectual and compelling masterpiece, and it uses the language of cinema in a way that very few films, if any, have ever used it before. It is a true work of art, in every sense of the term. Don Hertzfeldt is a genius and an artist; IT'S SUCH A BEAUTIFUL DAY is his gift to the world. Thanks Don.

[@jmorales09]

TheJacksonFR This is an amazing movie, but it doesn't surpass 2001: A Space Odyssey. It does come close though.

[@ZandoFox]

My favorite film by FAR.

[@ringboneringbone2179]

I think it definitily is one of the best films ever made

[@orfeas248]

Ringbone 1.61 why are you everywhere?

[@ringboneringbone2179]

orfeas why not?

[@jamdoodles]

I last watched this in my late 20s, I believe. I bought it on DVD around then. Now, reviewing it in my 30s, it's eerily more relatable. Sans teeth falling out and diagnosed incurable conditions, that is. I'll have to watch it again when I turn 40.

[@theonlyisteve7261]

How are you doing nowadays?

[@cinemaspin]

It’s almost your time to rewatch this

[@westsideweirdo3908]

like a handfull of other people i saw the full movie on netflix when i was pretty young and liked it a lot. my friend showed me another don hertzfeldt video at work the other day and it felt so familiar and i didnt know why, especially don hertzfeldt's name. but we looked it up and imediantly remembered this. very happy to have found it again.

[@zentofroez]

Fucking changed my life man. I come back to watch this everytime i get sad. Its strangely...up-lifting.

[@TheCardboardDinosaur]

I love how even if Bill is losing his mind, he still hates certain songs.

[@Dappis]

Finally got this on Blu-ray with all the other Hertzfeldt classics "It's such a beautiful day" is still my favorite film of all time after like 5 years.

[@Sarahonwheels]

thanks Bill, you got me through school. you made me feel empathy for my best friend, who is like you in many different ways. I hope I get to see you again this year. I really miss you.

[@neckartz2599]

He died man sorry

[@Sarahonwheels]

@@neckartz2599 yes, but he lives in our hearts.

[@thiagoandrade2540]

@@neckartz2599 Not. Bill lives and lives until all the lights go out.

[@nozzzzy]

This was way more relatable than I expected it to be.

[@powerpug964]

8:53

[@ajigotto_amygdala]

He'd forgotten years ago to replace the battery in the cheap wall clock in his kitchen and it was forever stuck on 11:57, he couldn't remember why he put a clock there in the first place since it was sorta in an awkward nook around the corner where he'd never wonder what time it was

[@WitherVideos]

Bill found an old notebook he’d never seen before.

[@thelibyanplzcomeback]

OINK

[@JarredG1]

his ability to capture emotions is amazing and how he flips from tragedy to humor is......i dont even im just speechless

[@piperian3962]

The bit where he says “this was was his life and the unusual part is the time he spent doing other things” really moved me.

[@veenacnair7147]

A part of him died, symbolised by him floating in space. When he woke up, he woke up incomplete.

[@kingkebo3960]

I’m 29. I first watched this when I was 15, and I laid down on the floor and had my first true existential breakdown. Hertzfeldt stands out in his ability to starkly and honestly portray so many aspects of the human condition. This video is a microcosm of existence as a person. Don’t get mad if the magazine subscription service doesn’t offer any Asian porn.

[@jamesstaton3265]

Bout a year ago, things really hit the fan for me. This made me feel a bit better. Luckily that situation had sorted itself quite awhile ago.

[@cakenarwhal625]

I hope you're doing ok

[@isabellevasquez7433]

While I did not cry, this did give me a sense of comfort. While my brain definitely functions better than some, it doesn’t function exactly well either. I have PTSD, a suspected dissociative disorder, and a myriad of other things my brain likes to deal with. I’m definitely considered crazy sometimes, and would 100% have been lobotomized if that was a thing when I was alive. Often I don’t have a sense of self. My mind feels like fragmented mirrors, all glued together haphazardly. Step far back enough and it kind of works, just don’t come any closer. I am a person who is a fragmentation of all the people I’ve been or had to be to survive. I am the child who went from outgoing and imaginative to silent, suicidal, and angry. I am the teenager fighting the urge to jump off my high school balconies. I am the young adult floating between periods of nothingness and excruciating detail. I spend my time keeping my mind as occupied on objectively useless things as I can to keep the buzz in my head at bay. If I let the quiet sit too long I start to travel back in time. I start to hear the The voices of the fragments in my head again. I start to feel the sensation of hands on my body and safety pins on my skin, so I end the quiet. I fill up my brain with stories ive heard a hundred times before. I lie in bed and I snuggle my dog. I stroke her perfect triangular ears and try not to think about the day when our time together will end. Maybe it isn’t healthy, or productive or whatever to cope by filling my head with noise and cutting off my thoughts by starving my body. But I do not know any other way to survive. I don’t have much, but at least I’m surviving still. I can get excited about new episodes of KZbin series’, I can learn new training techniques for my dog, I can sing and act and prepare for auditions, I can cut hair and transform faces, I can cook food im willing to eat and enjoy it even if just for a moment. Yes, it feels like I am always running from something out to kill me, and I am exhausted. But I’m still surviving.

[@ajigotto_amygdala]

Hope you'll be freed from running away... the same goes for me

[@DeluxeGamers01]

Watching this high was always a trip

[@zeekyzoid]

I can't help but to cry.

[@LewisSerex]

I mind I saw this about 10 years ago when I was 17. A few days ago it popped into my head randomly. Now its on my feed.

[@Nyax50Lopez]

I know me too. I watched weeks before my surgery happened and made me cry that I might not make it. Been 3 years now

[@digeridoo65]

i watched this when i was 15, i appreciated it but it wasn’t a huge movie for me. watched it again at 21 and i feel like i’m going thru 10 stages of grief, bawling my eyes out. i’m so thankful for this film. beautiful. i’m almost at a loss for words and i watched it over an hour ago

[@ChaosAngelMoon]

12:46 - Don't mind me, I'm bookmarking the part with the dancing triangle.

[@Snail4143]

YOOWAAAAAAAAA

[@glenbradley1794]

This reminds me of when my grandpa was dying. He had a huge freakout, crazy dreams, and then he was ok. He's 94 now.

[@Cooguy666]

Don hit that layer of consciousness with his expression that encapsulates very human to exist. Thank you for giving your expression to the world and for changing our lives forever

[@LuigiShroom12]

This movie made me think about existence and when I will die.