The greatest cinematic epic ever made about a stick figure, It’s Such a Beautiful Day, the first feature length film from lauded cult animator Don Hertzfeldt, will have you laughing through tears while pondering the meaning of life, the universe and everything. The culmination of its director’s fifteen-plus year career in short form filmmaking, the seventy-one minute feature is a triumph of aesthetic, narrative, experimentation and theme; a movie that reaches the same profound existential heights of masterworks by Stanley Kubrick and Terrence Malick, yet does so in a way that is unpretentious, emotional and frequently downright hilarious. It’s the best film of the year, by such a large margin that it’s actually kind of depressing.
Told from the perspective of an omnipotent narrator (Hertzfeldt), It’s Such a Beautiful Day actually consists of a trilogy of previously released short films: Everything Will Be OK (2006), I Am So Proud of You (2008) and It’s Such a Beautiful Day (2012). Linked together they recount the random thoughts, dreams and awkward social interactions of Bill, a painfully unremarkable office worker who’s forced to face the utter pointlessness of his own existence after being diagnosed with an unknown and likely fatal mental illness.
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