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This will hopefully encourage a broader audience to discover this most sublime of pictures, which ranked No.
12 on our recent list of thebest movies of the past decade.
Words come out wrong when he tries to greet someone.
He begins to wonder if his life consists entirely of meaningless rituals and routines.
He calls his ex-girlfriend and has an awkward exchange with her.
He gets a visit from his doting mom and has an irrational, violent reaction to her.
This isnt just existential malaise, however.
Bill knows something is wrong.
His unease waxes and wanes.
Shock gives way to boredom.
His mind catastrophizes, then quiets.
Days and moments blend into one another.
(He died alone in a field one summer morning while dreaming of the moon, Hertzfeldt narrates.
Six weeks later, a sunflower grew out of his head.)
Such absurdism is never hip or ironic or cute, however.
The world is clumsy, and beautiful, and new.
And its as though hes been sleepwalking for God knows how long.
Something has violently shaken him awake … His bathmats aregorgeous.
