History WesternAnimation / ItsSuchABeautifulDay

A trilogy of short films--''everything will be ok'', ''i am so proud of you'', and ''it's such a beautiful day''--by Creator/DonHertzfeldt. They focus on a man named Bill, who leads a boring and somewhat depressing life as he struggles to deal with his mental problems. There is a certain air of the absurd, not at all mitigated by his dysfunctional family and hallucinations and odd dreams brought on by a rapidly worsening malignant brain tumor.

The first two films have been released separately on DVD. A [[CompilationMovie feature film compiling the three parts]] under the title of the third short [[http://bitterfilms.shop.musictoday.com/Dept.aspx?cp=957_58078 has been released as well.]]

* AdaptationExpansion: Bill was originally from Hertzfeldt's webcomic ''[[http://www.bitterfilms.com/anesthetics.html Temporary Anesthetics]]'' and in it led a relatively normal, if depressingly banal, life, free of mental disorder (if you're willing to forget about some strange recurring dreams).

* {{Recut}}: According to Hertzfeldt's Facebook, the theatrical cut of the CompilationMovie "is a slightly different extended version than the cut coming to DVD, [[BuffySpeak but kind of not really]]."
* SanitySlippage: As the story progresses, Bill's mental illness gets worse and worse. [[spoiler:It later becomes terminal... [[CompleteImmortality or does it?]]]]

* PublicDomainSoundtrack: Excerpts from Bizet's "Au fond du temple saint" and Smetana's "Vitava (Moldau)" are featured.

* TitleDrop: Very nearly; the exactly line is, "...as if everything were OK."

* AdultFear: You've been entrusting your mother to take care of your child...and she's completely insane and fantasizes about harming him.
* CrazyCatLady: Bill's schizophrenic grandmother, who kept severed cat heads in her dresser and would rub them across her scalp when she "felt the fish smothering her brain".

* InfantImmortality: Subverted, as three children die in this film: Bill's retarded half-brother Randall (ran into the sea and drowned), his great-uncle's illegitimate child (smothered to death in an abandoned stable) and his great-aunt Polly (died at the age of 8 from yellow fever/fire).

-->''On his way to lunch, Bill smiles, and thinks for the first time that maybe [[spoiler:everything will be o--(Bill collapses to the ground in a seizure.)]]

* ItRunsInTheFamily: Mental illness seems to be common in Bill's family on his mother's side: his grandma, for instance, rubs severed cat heads on her face because "the fish are smothering her brain". The rest of her family has similar manias: her sister Polly pounds imaginary animals with hammers, her mother saw phantoms, and her brother believed that a sea monster stole the local sheriff's prize cow.
* MyBelovedSmother: Bill's mom was very overprotective of Bill after losing her second husband and Randall, making him wear a heavy coat, a helmet and asbestos safety gloves every day for a year after Randall's death, for fear that he might catch "walking pneumonia".

* NoKillLikeOverkill: Bill's great-aunt Polly died at the age of 8 after catching yellow fever... and then [[KillItWithFire catching on fire]].
* PublicDomainSoundtrack: Excerpts from Strauss's "Vier letzte Lieder", Wagner's "Das Rheingold" and "Im Treibhaus", and Bremner's "Old Sir Symon the King" are used.
* RailroadTracksOfDoom: [[spoiler:three of Bill's relatives, including his mother, were killed by trains.]]

* AdultFear: You've been entrusting your mother to take care of your child...and she's completely insane and fantasizes about harming him.

* AdultFear: You've been entrusting your mother to take care of your child...and she's completely insane and fantasizes about harming him.

* SoundtrackDissonance: The narration of the relatively mundane segments of Bill's life are set to spectacular classical music.

* * SoundtrackDissonance: The narration of the relatively mundane segments of Bill's life in the first part are set to spectacular classical music.

* SoundtrackDissonance: The narration of the relatively mundane segments of Bill's life in the first part are set to spectacular classical music.

* DisabledMeensHelpless: Bill's half-brother Randall is a mentally challenged child in the special-ed class who was taught to simply stay within the confines of the tether-ball circle every recess.

* SanitySlippage: As the story progresses, Bill's mental illness gets worse and worse. [[spoiler:It later becomes terminal... [[CompleteImmortality or does it?]]

* BlackComedy:
* CompilationMovie: One that shares the title of the third part, ''it's such a beautiful day''.

* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: The entire film is done through Bill's perspective.

* WildChild: "A wild man wandered into town that summer and beat the church organist with a shovel." [[spoiler:He was really Bill's great-great-uncle, whose parents had drugged and abandoned in the woods as a
child.]]

* DeadBabyComedy: No dead babies, but there are quite a number of

-->''On his way to lunch, Bill smiles, and thinks for the first time that maybe everything will be [[spoiler:o--(Bill collapses to the ground in a seizure.)]]

* RunAwayHideAway: After Bill is told he doesn't have much time to live, Bill rents a car and drives it all the way to his uncle's house, then to the nursing home where his birth father lives, and then finally just drives mindlessly for hundreds of miles before ending up in an unknown field.

* WildChild: "A wild man wandered into town that summer and beat the church organist with a shovel." [[spoiler:He was really Bill's great-great-uncle, whose parents had drugged and abandoned in the woods as a child.]]

A trilogy of short films--''everything will be ok'', ''i am so proud of you'', and ''it's such a beautiful day''--by DonHertzfeldt. They focus on a man named Bill, who leads a boring and somewhat depressing life as he struggles to deal with his mental problems. There is a certain air of the absurd, not at all mitigated by his dysfunctional family and hallucinations and odd dreams brought on by a rapidly worsening malignant brain tumor.

* AdaptationExpansion: Bill was originally from Hertzfeldt's webcomic ''[[http://www.bitterfilms.com/anesthetics.html Temporary Anesthetics]]'' and in it led a relatively normal, if depressing in a banal way, life, free of mental disorder (if you're willing to forget about some strange recurring dreams).

A trilogy of short films--''everything will be ok'', ''i am so proud of you'', and ''it's such a beautiful day''--by DonHertzfeldt. They focus on a man named Bill, who leads a boring and somewhat depressing life. There is a certain air of the absurd, not at all mitigated by his dysfunctional family and hallucinations and odd dreams brought on by a rapidly worsening malignant brain tumor.

The first two films have been released separately on DVD. A [[CompilationMovie feature film compiling the three parts]] under the title of the third short is also pending release.

-->''On his way to lunch, Bill smiles, and thinks for the first time that maybe everything will be [spoiler:o--(Bill collapses to the ground in a seizure.)]]

-->''On his way to lunch, Bill smiles, and thinks for the first time that maybe everything will be o--''[[spoiler:(Bill collapses to the ground in a seizure.)]]

* SliceOfLife: Bill's CosmicDeadline does create a sense of conflict, but otherwise the plot is rather meandering and focuses on random goings-on in Bill's life.

!!The ''it's such a beautiful day'' trilogy provides examples of:

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* {{Hallucinations}}: Bill suffers these multiple times throughout the film.

* SoundtrackDissonance: The narration of the relatively mundane segments of Bill's life in the first part are set to the aforementioned CrowningMusicOfAwesome.

The first two films have been released separately on DVD. A [[CompilationFilm feature film compiling the three parts]] under the title of the third short is also pending release.