It’s Such a Beautiful Day - Bill lives and lives, forever

I love how Don manages to paint this actually quite sad picture of what it would be like if Bill had not died under the tree and was immortal (what the narrator wanted), but it's so strangely beautiful that it almost looks appealing.

"He lives and he lives, until all of the lights go out." Describing someone's last seconds of life in this way is simultaneously beautiful and sad.

Jeez I sobbed until the very end and then I understood the absurdity of wanting someone to live forever. ❤️

I love this scene. It shows an alternate ending to any death - that ending we all wish for, and demonstrates how in the end, really, nothing is any different. So no matter how you look at it, it's the present moment that is the most valuable thing. This film, and especially this ending, is the most comforting thing I've come across when it comes to grieving loss. Btw, the piece that's playing is Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11 (2) Romance

"He will learn more about life than any being in history, but death will forever be a stranger to him."

That’s a durable hat.

Something about this ending really speaks to me. The entire film was both the Narrator and Bill trying to accept that we will eventually die one day. Bill has been told he doesn’t have long to live since the beginning, and it shows that Bill has not been living peacefully since his diagnosis. And yet, despite all that, we still will never learn to accept death. Even in our last breaths, even when we are in pain, even when we know that we need things to end, we don’t want to accept it because life can be beautiful and amazing, and we can’t leave just yet. No matter how much we can philosophize our existence, no matter how much we say we want to die, we just want to keep experiencing this beauty we call life, for better or for worse.

Great subversion of the "oh no the main character can't die I really like him!" Don is like "well ok, here's what it'd be like if they didn't die, just like you asked". He even narrates the supposed audience reaction: "he's not gonna die here right? No he's not gonna die, he can't die." That's why I absolutely love the end of this movie.

"he will father hundreds of thousands of children" damn, my man bill FUCKS

God I first saw this movie when I was like 11. It was on Netflix and remember watching it over and over. Even after all these years it brings me to tears. It’s very bittersweet.

Tears all the time I saw this

Listen, I don't cry easily. I can sit through the end of Titanic without a single tear. I sob at the end of this movie, every single time. It is so, so beautiful, and so, so heartbreaking. I can't even put into proper words how it makes me feel. Because Bill, and the Narrator, is everyone. We all wish at some point that we could live forever, but, as Don so perfectly shows us, that is not as wonderful as it sounds. This is the best movie I have ever seen in my life, and I don't think that anything even comes close to the amount of emotional power that these little stick figures hold for me. It's just perfect.

i love how don does this long, almost ironic painting to indirectly, yet very clearly tell us bill did die under the tree

This is the single greatest piece of media ever made. Like, this is actual peak entertainment and I heavily doubt will be topped.

idk why but "He will learn more about life than any being in history but death will forever be a stranger to him" hits me so hard every single time

Inarguably the greatest film ending of all time. This always hits me in the gut.

This is my comfort film. I hope that someday I might be able to create something close to this caliber of beauty and heart.

I thought it was interesting that Don decided to go with this ending and I'm glad he did. It's almost as if the narrator denies that Bill dies and almost childishly makes him immortal to feel better about the story's ending. Almost like the ending being given is what you would tell a child that is divested in a character. Death was something not "fitting" for Bill, to go the way he did and live under the circumstances he did. But immortality also isn't appealing either. It's that sheer arrogance near the end of the story is what made it so powerful and sad. You even hear the narrator say "Wait a minute, he's not gonna die here? But he doesn't die here. No, no, no, Bill, get up. Get up, Bill. Bill, get up. He can't die here. He's not gonna die. He can't ever die" as if he refuses the "proper" ending and tells us one that we know isn't the actual ending. Damn good film.

Powerful stuff, you want Bill to live because you want him to have a happy ending. But then you realize that death was the happy ending. Living forever is the true hell, it would basically trivialize life to the point where its not worth living. The point of life is that it ends.

I love how in the end it shows how no matter the people, time, or place feelings of loneliness, love, heartbreak, nostalgia, anxiety, depression, death and so much other stuff will always be there. That those concepts will eventually get to us all at one point in our lives.