Everybody Goes to the Hospital (2021) User Reviews

Very strong

[BandSAboutMovies · 7/10 · 8 October 2022]

This is an absolutely terrifying movie, the stop motion animated story of 4-year-old Little Mata (writer/director Tiffany Kimmel's mother, as this is based on a true story) as she gets so sick that she has to go to the hospital in late 1963 with appendicitis and things get worse from there.

I don't even know how you can recover from getting every single one of your organs taken out of your body and cleaned, but somehow this brave little child did. I was completely not prepared to be repeatedly emotionally barraged by this well-crafted short.

I just spent some time with my dad at an appointment in a hospital after watching this and man, I kept remembering the details of this movie. It stays with you.

a hospital story

[Kirpianuscus · 12 May 2023]

A great short animation. For atmosphere, details, storytelling, for the voice of little girl and fine - precise exploration of each detail .

A film about parenthood and medical aspects, about deep loneliness of a child , covered by the cold attitude of her mother, the apathy of father, the cynism of nurse, the malpraxis of doctor and the way to discover near reality in its naked forms.

The stop motion seems the best manner to translate this traumatic experience.

The result is powerful moving and seed for many questions about perspective of adults about children , like the emotions, so easy ignored, of the last.

In short, just special , discovered, after the final credits, as a personal, very personal story.