World of Tomorrow 2015

"Now is the envy of all of the dead."

"I no longer love rocks".

World of Tomorrow is about a little girl is taken on a mind-bending tour of her distant future.

I always like recommending short films if it's animated or not to people who may never heard of. World of Tomorrow is one short film that I wanted to see just because of the great feedback it got with people treating this as the best thing ever. After seeing it myself I wouldn't go that far oh calling it that, but at the end of the day it's peoples opinion and I think World of Tomorrow is great.

World of Tomorrow gives you everything in a matter of a couple of minutes like: cuteness, sadness, confuse feelings and the feel of the cruel world we live in. It's a well made film and it's worth seeing.

God Don Hertzfeldt is awesome. It's hard to give this a proper review, since there's so much to unpack, but it fits the ideas and theme Hertzfeldt has been working out in his work for some time now. It has concepts of identity, about what a human being is apart from their flesh and blood, about a sense of being unstuck in time and events feeling random, about what gives us comfort and what we try to hold onto in the unavoidable transience of our lives here. And of course, it's full of things like the letter from Emily's grandfather that are simultaneously hilarious and sad. How Hertzfeldt is able to make these crude-yet-complex drawings into something that feels so profound and so touching is still such a mystery, but I bow down to the alchemy he uses to make a story about time travel and transferred consciousness feel like the most earnest, human thing in the world.

I wish I had thought of this.