It's Such a Beautiful Day

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Movie
Original title It's Such a Beautiful Day
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2012
length 62 minutes
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Director Don Hertzfeldt
script Don Hertzfeldt
production Don Hertzfeldt
camera Don Hertzfeldt
cut Brian Hamblin
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It's Such a Beautiful Day is an American animated film directed by Don Hertzfeldt in 2012. The film was gradually released over several years in three chapters.

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The story is told exclusively from the perspective of the protagonist Bill by an omniscient narrator.

Everything Will Be OK

Bill is a grown man who lives alone in a big city. The viewer quickly realizes that Bill suffers from an unspecified brain damage. Bill asks strange and banal questions about his everyday life and has confused dreams at night. People around him are caring for him - especially his ex-girlfriend with whom he still spends a lot of time and who is the only one who is able to classify the crazy conversations with him.

After a sudden incontinence, Bill decides to go to the hospital. On the way, he gets hallucinations from people with animal heads and deforming images. The doctor tells Bill that his current therapy is not working and changes his medication. He shouldn't worry, "Everything will be fine".

At home his hallucinations increase and become more and more nightmarish delusions. Bill goes nuts, becomes violent, and finally collapses in an alley. In the hospital, Bill is not given much longer to live. His mother and uncle arrive believing that Bill will die soon, but to the astonishment of his fellow men Bill recovers from the severe collapse. His funeral is canceled and Bill is released from the hospital.

I am so proud of you

In the second chapter, Bill's past is examined. His family has a very long medical history of various mental illnesses. Bill's grandmother suffered from a brain tumor that triggered violent delusions. In Bill's childhood, his physically and mentally disabled cousin Randyl dies in an accident. Bill's mother withdraws more and more into her house. In exaggerated fear for her son, she forces Bill to always wear winter clothes, helmet and gloves when he leaves the house. Bill's stepfather leaves the family, which further increases the mother's fear of losing Bill. From now on she puts a note in his lunch box every day that says: "I'm so proud of you". Five years of Bill's childhood go by in this way.

Bill lives normally after he is released from the hospital. All of a sudden he receives news of his mother's death. After Bill's recovery, she stopped her medication and ran in front of a train madly. Among her estate, Bill finds old photo albums, including of himself, as well as a psychiatric report that recommends his mother never to have a child. He also finds his mother's notebook, in which she repeatedly practiced the sentence "I am so proud of you" in beautiful handwriting.

Bill gets a vision, he sees himself lying on his deathbed in the future. All these years he had persuaded himself never to die, but now he realizes that he has actually always longed for this moment. Despite the recurring gaps in his memory, his doctor certifies that he is in excellent health. Bill agrees to meet his ex-girlfriend and believes that "everything may finally be fine". Shortly afterwards, he had a stroke.

It's Such a Beautiful Day

Bill is successfully resuscitated after his stroke, but his brain is badly damaged. He has very large memory gaps that his brain tries to fill with invented memories. Bill did this before, so his dead cousin Randyl, as well as all insane ancestors, were pure imagination to explain his condition. In addition to these memory gaps, Bill suffers from progressive amnesia, which gradually makes him forget everything and largely prevents the formation of new memories. He experiences the best time of his new life through the visits of his ex-girlfriend, but at first forgets her visits and later any memories of her completely.

A new doctor does different tests on Bill. Until the results are known, he is allowed to go home under the supervision of his uncle. Because of his amnesia, he keeps doing the same shopping and walks. A phone call from his doctor gives him the assurance that he will die very soon. From that moment on, Bill sees the beautiful in all the little things in life and its surroundings.

Bill's uncle gives him the address of his biological father on behalf of his dead mother, whom he never met. Bill goes to visit him in a nursing home. His father is a nursing case and shows hardly any mental impulses himself. Since Bill has since forgotten who the man he is visiting, he watches a TV show with him. Without knowing why, Bill tells his father that he will forgive him, causing his father to cry. Bill gets back in the car and drives aimlessly through the night. The next morning he lies down in a sunny spot under a tree and thinks: “What a wonderful day”. A fade-out indicates Bill's death.

The narrator breaks the blackness, unable to accept Bill's death. He says that Bill will live forever and become an extraordinary person. He will learn everything there is to be learned, fall in love countless times and father hundreds of thousands of children. He will survive humanity itself and witness the end of the universe himself.

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