Billy's Balloon
1998 Directed by Don Hertzfeldt
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A balloon wraps itself around a young child's hand, bringing him higher and higher, much to the child's delight... but...
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Poor Billy.
Poor other kid.
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This one is kind of boring and repetitive. I didn't find it as funny as some of Don Hertzfeldt's other films.
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Note: never trust balloons.
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A kind-of psychotic remake of the Red Balloon, but a lot less upsetting. And more boring.
Mind, the starting point for Quentin Dupieux's Rubber is right here...
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Don Hertzfeldt's final student film is a darkly comic tale of a world where balloons terrorize children.
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If you like seeing kids tortured by balloons, you'll love this. By now Don is getting a bit tedious for me.
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A scathing and dark feature, an insane script with dark undertones of torture, loss of innocence and social oppression. A visionary work of art.
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Repetitive, unfunny, and in poor taste. I've tried many times to extract meaning from this but it's fruitless. At least the comic timing is excellent.
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The Good: The beginning is kind of funny.
The Bad: Gets tedious, repetitive, and quite sadistic.
The Bottom Line: Very, very, very disturbing. The antithesis of Albert Lamorisse's The Red Balloon.
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That was quite disturbing...
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Jei vil ha ein blååå balloooong!
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The Birds, with balloons.
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Don Hertzfeldt's final student film is a darkly comic tale of a world where balloons terrorize children.
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Unlike 'Rejected', this short film by Don Hertzfeld gets very repetitive, isn't all that funny and its actually rather disturbing.
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.