It’s Such a Beautiful Day (2012)
★★★★★
This film is truly beautiful, nothing is harder to take in than that ending where the narrator knowing bill is about to die desperately attempts to cling on to bill describing futures for him that he knows bill will never lead, describes them despite knowing that by the end of the journeys that the narrator is sending bill on he will have no memories left, that bill will be an empty shell but at least bill would have lived and seen everything.
It’s tragic in a way, and really is a narrative that is interesting to have a narrator get so attached to a character that he refutes the death of said character.
The stuff with bill and his parents always seems to hit the beats for me, the abject horror in his moms face when she tries to cut the piece of string off his shirt to the quiet and contemplative moment bill gets with his dad are so great.
To that end it’s the quieter moments mixed with the amplified chaotic imagines and sound design that work for me, cutting from the score build up and monsters attacking to bill sitting in a bench taking off his hat will never cease to work as the silence fill my room that I am watching this thing in.
The I’m so proud of you moments are probably my favorite, it is what lingers for me.
Despite all that and the deep story that is here though the animation is simplistic it is truly versatile, incorporating live action elements and so much more the particles in the hospital are cool to look at, the way the outlines sketch onto real life elements the story being told through these memory
I’m so proud of you.
