Doctor's Bill

Soul cookies... that's what this trilogy of shorts is. The kind that immediately bring you comfort fresh from the oven, but then immediately turn to guilt for going straight to your hips. Then one day, five years later, you'll be cursing the current cookies you are eating because they'll never be better than those one cookies. Never. Who made those again? Was it that little local bakery in Chicago? I wonder if it's still there. No, not there... I think my grandma bought them. Oh wait, she always baked cookies, I wonder if I have the recipe. Of course not, she made them from memory—and some magical source of light and wisdom and love. Don't matter, I'm out of sugar.

Soul cookies.

Don Hertzfeldt compiles his trilogy—2006 Everything will be OK, 2008 I Am So Proud of You, and 2011 It's Such a Beautiful Day—into a feature film "captured entirely on a 1940s-era 35mm animation stand." I spent $2 to watch it on vimeo, a little irritated to spend money on vimeo, but it's Herztfeldt. Then I realized, after paying my $2, you can purchase the video to download for $6... but only for a week's worth of viewing. Hmmm. Not sure I like this direction, but it's Herztfeldt.

Waiting for bananas + spoons + bleeding anuses I was suddenly engrossed in a meaningful story of Bill. Who is Bill? Why is he becoming a character I grow attached to? Have I been suckered into a film that will change my perspective on life? What. The. Fuck.

Genius.
But, of course...
it's Herztfeldt.

Spend 2 dollars and call me in the morning,
Doctor Borderless