Ah, l’Amour

In Don Hertzfeldt's audacious satire, a cartoon misogynist is meticulously deconstructed through the lens of his own skewed and toxic perspective. As a series of vignettes unveil, we see him relentlessly pursue women in his life but only ever truly comprehend the situations from his myopic viewpoint. Hertzfeldt's first foray into filmmaking sees him playing the role of an artist spiraling out of control within his own creation, a theme he would later explore further in his "meta" shorts "Genre" and "Rejected". Despite its origins as an 18-year-old student project not initially meant for public viewing, HBO declared it "The World's Funniest Cartoon" in 1998. This sharp, unapologetic comedy brilliantly exposes the absurdity of toxic male behavior and the self-destructive path it can lead to.