Don Hertzfeldt's career has gone from strength to strength. While I've yet to see It's Such a Beautiful Day, his new feature which is already adored by many, I have seen the first part of a trilogy that was adapted into that film. Everything Will Be OK is, simply, the finest film I have ever seen from the director. Its satire bites hard enough to send one scrambling to the emergency room and its dark undertones overwhelm any positive emotion and send the film hurtling into an abyss of torturous mental disfigurement. The film is unforgiving, brutal and loud in its ruthless objection to the prevalent passive attitude to mental illness and the way film in general abuses its emotionally evocative qualities to the point of insulting, offensive self-parody. It is a work of near-perfect genius, its most unsettling factor how terrifyingly easy it is to relate to.

I feel like I just belly-flopped into the swimming pool of crazy that is Don Hertzfeldt's mind. He's brilliant, but I'm scared of him.

Don Hertzfeldt is once again trending on Letterboxd thanks to the completion of his trilogy centered around Bill and Everything Will Be OK is indeed an incredible little film. In just 17 minutes Hertzfeldt captures a character crisis that goes from comedic to bizarre, to scary and to sad almost seamlessly. His simplistic style works wonders here and the fragmented scenes result allow for constant amusement, while at the same time subjecting the audience to intelligent satire coupled with a bucket-load of gags and the strangest of atomspheres. Everything Will Be OK is a trippy nightmare of a short and one I think I'll be revisiting a lot in the future.

The Tree of Life meets Fight Club meets Submarine meets Eraserhead meets 2001: A Space Odyssey meets Trainspotting meets Requiem for a Dream meets A Serious Man. In that particular order. With brutal honesty.

Best of Hertzfeldt's films by a mile, and strangely feel good. Thanks for nominating this, Del! :)

I can't believe it took me this long to sit down and watch a 17 minute animated video, but alas, here we are. It was worth the wait though, because these 17 minutes are pure animated greatness. It's amazing how personal this ends up feeling (both for the creator and the audience), which is part of its genius.

Everything Will Be OK: Nightmares Guaranteed this should be called. Though seriously, this is a good little film.

Imagine being so moved by a cartoon. That's no doubt a very typical thought to the average viewer, for whom traditional animation is more often a childish preoccupation than a serious form of artistic expression. How lucky we are to have people like Don Hertzfeldt to expose the folly of such thoughts; Everything Will Be OK, the first of what grew to be a trilogy of hand-drawn shorts examining the deeply sad but no less amusing life of its seemingly mentally ill protagonist, is a staggeringly effective piece of work, as emotionally affecting an animation as I have seen. Its simplistic design, efficient and never not pleasing to the eye, allows the feelings to take hold all the more, the crescendo of sadness which characterises this creation slowly overwhelming the viewer with its unexpected depth. This is a film with more reality and truth to its name than most live-action can ever hope to muster.

With a vicious sense of humor, a penchant for the bizarre, pondering and reflection that would make Malick proud, and just about creative as any art form can possibly be, Mindless is a fantastic film that is very highly recommended.

Wry commentary on the insanity of everyday life.

Tremendous leap forward from Hertzfeldt's previous work. He seems to have found the perfect outlet for his style of animation within a multilayered approach wherein he fills the frame with multiple images, each playing off the other to tremendous effect. The writing here has also progressed. No longer merely a stream of witty or ironic jokes, there is some deeply profound bits and the entire thing is pervaded by a sense of melancholy that reminded me a great deal of the work Daniel Clowes. A watershed film in this director's career.

Don Hertzfeldt is once again trending on Letterboxd thanks to the completion of his trilogy centered around Bill and Everything Will Be OK is indeed an incredible little film. In just 17 minutes Hertzfeldt captures a character crisis that goes from comedic to bizarre, to scary and to sad almost seamlessly. His simplistic style works wonders here and the fragmented scenes result allow for constant amusement, while at the same time subjecting the audience to intelligent satire coupled with a bucket-load of gags and the strangest of atomspheres. Everything Will Be OK is a trippy nightmare of a short and one I think I'll be revisiting a lot in the future.

Don Hertzfeldt's career has gone from strength to strength. While I've yet to see It's Such a Beautiful Day, his new feature which is already adored by many, I have seen the first part of a trilogy that was adapted into that film. Everything Will Be OK is, simply, the finest film I have ever seen from the director. Its satire bites hard enough to send one scrambling to the emergency room and its dark undertones overwhelm any positive emotion and send the film hurtling into an abyss of torturous mental disfigurement. The film is unforgiving, brutal and loud in its ruthless objection to the prevalent passive attitude to mental illness and the way film in general abuses its emotionally evocative qualities to the point of insulting, offensive self-parody. It is a work of near-perfect genius, its most unsettling factor how terrifyingly easy it is to relate to.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IUX0Qy-IDM

THE PIPE IS LEAKING!!!!!

You think you've seen trippy films, well you ain't seen nothing until you've sat down a witness this deformity.

A fully realized existential comedy

Insightful. I may like this more than I'm willing to allow myself to recognize.