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Successfully nightmarish account of illness and mental disturbance. Perhaps because the filmmaker is not trying so hard to be "hilarious" he has been able to create a more affecting short work.

It's doesn't peer into the depths of the human soul as much as some people would like to say, but, it's an oddly touching short nontheless. We all expected funny from Hertzfeldt, which this definitely is, but the main thing that rises out of this film, despite how absurd it is, is beauty. Fantastic. Score is not a grade.

Really cool short animation

A masterpiece. Beautiful story, animation is incredible and the music just ties this together into a package of excellence. Hertzfeldt at his best.

Never an animation could get me so involved as a film and in a such short time! Worth watching for pleasure and reflecting.

Does this even classify as a movie?

Brilliant short but my friend and I both agree that we couldn't watch it more than once or twice without doing serious damage to our spirits. Well, he thought that, I thought it was beautiful.

Hertzfeld manages to create an interesting protagonist and a tense and melancholic mood with only few tools. It's a delightful bitter snack covered in dark, dark chocolate; and though little in size it somehow manages to make you feel satisfied and full, albeit with a funny taste in your mouth that stays there for days...okay, I don't really know how to review this. Just watch it. Anywho: You'll laugh, you'll cry. Other than that there's not really much to say.

This, in conjunction with its sequels, represents what might be the best 70 minutes of animation ever produced outside of the system. I dream of the day when Hertzfeldt and Charlie Kaufman team up to make the best movie ever.

Wow. Just wow. The narration, from the way certain words are said to the words themselves, is pitch-perfect. The visuals are incredible... a mixture of simple stickmen and surrealism. This is hilarious at times, dark, and saddening, perfectly describing mental illness and whatnot. This is an incredible short, one of those things that look so simple but are so deep.

God bless Hertzfeld who seems to be wondering out loud just how aware of our own death we'll be when the time comes, or if it will be a surreal, confusing experience with our own demise being the only possible happy ending, that he can provide us with films like this that show that the man keeps finding boxes to think outside of.

Random, quirky images and scenes is all that this short has going for it. No real story or humor. Hell, it doesn't even have cool visuals, music, or an "aura" of any kind; just a bunch of random scenes, hallucinations, and when things get too boring, flashing lights. Not exactly hard to reproduce, either. The only good thing about is that a bunch of pretentious film snobs can now jerk each other off to how "brilliant" and "deep" this "underground artist" is. Nope, it's just shit.

Surprisingly good. If Hertzfeldt made more shorts like this, maybe I'd like him.

Hertzfeldt's masterpiece. Hilarious and heart-breaking.

I had forgotten Hertzfeldt for many years and then ran into this. It's a fabulous piece of cinema but somehow I'm not surprised he had it in him. I always saw the spark. His ability to do so much with so little (so little time, so little plot, so little drawing) is truly stunning. Equally exceptional is his seamless combination of intelligence and sensitivity with juvenile cynicism and death-obsession. It yields both biting humor and harrowing existential angst.

Good

The usual mean-spirited, tasteless, juvenile stick-figure animation from Don Hertzfeldt, only more annoying this time because it's longer. Why does ANYBODY like this guy's work?

Hilariously depressing. Really, there's no other way to describe it, the drawings are crude yet somehow full of life and the deadpan narration is really beautiful and well written.

Crudely poetic. Only Don Hertzfeldt can bring out raw, dark emotion from stick figures. One of the better shorts I've ever seen.

Not a single miss in Hertzfeldt's matchstick armada. I wasn't sure if he can entertain complex storytelling techniques swiftly. Here it is, comic book logic 2-3 sec loops spread around the screen, which also interferes with some kind of video art. A simple story with Hertzfeldt essentials; encountering moments, gazes at strangers' blabbering, a trip, redemption.

(after repeated viewing) Hertzfeldt's best, intelligent and strangely absorbing. Bill's perceptions crumble as his inner demons gradually take over, and we're left wondering what will alleviate his ongoing stuggle. Don't worry, everything will be Ok.

I'm not a fan of surrealism, but this is brilliant, even if a bit weird. The style is fantastic and it is darkly comical in the face of an existential crisis.

29/9/9 - Easily Hertzfeldt's most accomplished work, very funny and very touching.

Amazing.

First part of Hertzfeldt's masterpiece. Reminds me of those post-modern philosophical novels. Every time I watch it I find something different, something new. I play with the bits presented and in my mind I make something own from it.

Hertzfeldt's best by a long shot.