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.

* ''SurrealHorror''/''SurrealHumor'' the trilogy has justified both these. because the protagonist Bill is mentally (and perhaps terminally) ill, and has to deal with how his depressing (yet ridiculous) life may eventually end with premature death.

* ''SurrealHorror''/''SurrealHumor'' the trilogy has justified both these. because the protagonist Bill is mentally (and perhaps terminally) ill, and has to deal with how his depressing (yet ridiculous) life may eventually end with premature death.

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

* {{Rewrite}}: Much of the stories of Bill's family introduced in i am so proud of you are revealed to have been confabulations made by Bill's mind.

* DysfunctionJunction: Most everyone Bill knows and meets was odd in one way or another, such as his unhelpful neighbor who talked about nanomachines could preserve his brain in a failed effort to comfort Bill, and quickly changed the subject to a dream he had where his toes fell off.

* 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."

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* InfantImmortality: Subverted, as three children die in this film: Bill's disabled 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.)

* UnreliableNarrator: Up until the end of It's Such A Perfect Day, it's through no fault of his own. He stays true to Bill's memories and perception--however, it's explained that a good chunk of his memories were fabricated to cover up the gaps the brain tumor has left. However, right at the end, it goes into overdrive--he [[spoiler:refuses to believe that Bill has died]] and instead claims that he [[spoiler:[[CompleteImmortality outlives everything, even the stars in the sky]]]].

* SensoryAbuse: The second act, as mentioned below, is fucked up in the most frightening way. Film burns, deformed creatures, cacophonous music and [[WorseThanItSounds a dog barking through a wet piece of glass]] are all in it.

* PublicDomainSoundtrack: Excerpts from ''Georges Bizet'''s "Au Fond du Temple Saint" and Music/BedrichSmetana's "Vltava (Moldau)" are featured.

* PublicDomainSoundtrack: Excerpts from Music/GeorgesBizet's "Au Fond du Temple Saint" and Music/BedrichSmetana's "Vltava (Moldau)" are featured.

* 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.)

* [[spoiler:MyLifeFlashedBeforeMyEyes]]: Occurs in the film's last moments.

* [[spoiler:TheStarsAreGoingOut]]: The final motif of the film.

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

* UnreliableNarrator: Up until the end of It's Such A Perfect Day, it's through no fault of his own. He stays true to Bill's memories and perception--however, it's explained that a good chunk of his memories were fabricated to cover up the gaps the brain tumor has left. However, right at the end, it goes into overdrive--he [[spoiler:refuses to believe that Bill has died]] and instead claims that he [[spoiler:[[CompleteImmortality outlives everything, even the stars in the sky.]]]]

* SyntheticVoiceActor: Some of the random voices heard during Bill's nightmarish hallucinations are made via voice synthesizers saying random nonsense phrases like "I am made nervous by a clone" or "Why don't you come and sit on my lap".

* DisappearedDad: Bill's birth father left him and his mother when Bill was a child.
* HopeSpot: Right at the end. We even get a TitleDrop from the first movie--almost.
* IGotARock: In one flashback, Bill's mother gives him a postage stamp, a piece of yarn, and a really long, awkward hug for his sixth birthday.

* NoKillLikeOverkill: Bill's great-aunt Polly died at the age of 8 after catching yellow fever... And then [[KillItWithFire catching on fire]].

* SyntheticVoiceActor: Bill's "roommate" in the hospital, Matthew, is a paralyzed man who communicates with a set of buttons that can say 5 different electronic sentences, but the only one heard in the film is "I am in pain".
* [[spoiler:TheStarsAreGoingOut]]: The final motif of the film.

* BlatantLies: The narrator [[spoiler:goes into denial over the fact that Bill has just died]] and instead tells the story of him [[spoiler:him achieving CompleteImmortality]].

* UnreliableNarrator: Up until the end of It's Such A Perfect Day, it's through no fault of his own. He stays true to Bill's memories and perception--however, explained that a good chunk of his memories were fabricated to cover up the gaps the brain tumor has left. However, right at the end, it goes into overdrive--He [[spoiler:refuses to believe that Bill has died]] and instead claims that he [[spoiler:outlives everything, even the stars in the sky.]]

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

* HopeSpot:
-->''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.)]]

* [[spoiler:MyLifeFlashedBeforeMyEyes]]

* TheStarsAreGoingOut

* CompleteImmortality: What (apparently) happens to Bill at the end, simply because the narrator told him not to die. He explores the world, learning everything about everything, falling in love countless times, and generally just exploring more and more until the earth and the sun die out, leaving Bill alone in the universe. The entire passage is worth quoting in full.
---> '''Narrator:''' He will spend hundreds of years traveling the world, learning all there is to know. He will learn every language; he will read every book; he will know every land. He will spend thousands of years creating stunning works of art. He will learn to meditate to control all pain. As wars will be fought, and great loves found... and lost... and found. Lost... and found... and found... and found. And memories built upon memories until life runs on an endless loop. He will father hundreds of thousands of children whose own exponential offspring he'll slowly lose track of over the years, whose millions of beautiful lives will all eventually be swept again from the Earth. And still, Bill will continue. He will learn more about life than any being in history, but death will forever be a stranger to him. People will come and go until names lose all meaning to him, until people lose all meaning and vanish entirely from the world. And still, Bill will live on. He will befriend the next inhabitants of the Earth, beings of light who revere him as a God, and Bill will outlive them all, for millions and millions of years, exploring, learning, living... until the Earth is swallowed beneath his feet. Until the sun is long since gone. Until time loses all meaning and the moment comes that he knows only the positions of the stars and sees them whether his eyes are closed or open. Until he forgets his name and the place where he'd once come from. He lives and he lives, until all of the lights go out.

* TitleDrop: About a third into the film, Bill lies down in a field hundreds of miles away from his home and the narrator says this exact line.

* RealDreamsAreWeirder: Bill has a dream about being in a rocket ship plummeting towards earth, and he and his crew all ate ice cream bars, thinking it would prevent them from getting strokes (though Bill secretly wishes that everyone else would get strokes in case something bad happens).

* BlackComedy: The overall film is much more depressing in tone than some of Don's other films, but there's still quite a few moments of his trademark absurd, surrealist humor.

* SensoryAbuse: The second act, as mentioned below, is fucked up in the most frightening way. Film burns, deformed creatures, cacophonous music and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking a dog barking through a wet piece of glass]] are all in it.

* CompleteImmortality: What (apparently) happens to Bill at the end, simply because the narrator told him not to die. He explores the world, learning everything about everything, falling in love countless times, and generally just exploring more and more until the earth and the sun die out, leaving Bill alone in the universe.