A friend recommended this to me. He was praising it for its amazing philosophical message about life and immortality. What I saw was one of the most terrible short films I ever watched. The animation is terrible. I saw better animation come out of USSR era animated movies and shows. The pseudo-philosophical message of this short film that everyone praises so hard can be heard from any of your drunk friends at a pub. The actual sci-fi has nothing ground breaking about it. Clones, time travel, consciousness that was stored away in a computer to escape death, aliens. Nothing about this is original in any way. Hearing Don Hertzfeldt's prepubescent daughter's mindless dribble that he attempted to rework into an actual scripts is the most insufferable thing in this entire short film. It's not amusing in the slightest.
The fact that this nonsense got 42 awards and was nominated for an Oscar is absolutely pitiful.
The fact that this nonsense got 42 awards and was nominated for an Oscar is absolutely pitiful.