Perfect Days is sunlight filtering through leaves

Perfect Days (2023) is a movie following a public toilet cleaner in Tokyo as he goes about his routine days. A film with a seemingly simple concept at first but gets deeper as you ponder its meaning.

[@MattEveland-cy9yr]

realize it was a german director, but japanese movies in general i think often do this quite well. closing open ended and not just tossing the moral or message in your face. instead they give you the room to really think about it yourself.

[@mgrzx3367]

Thought I knew this guy so IMDB and yep. Really great actor he did " Under the Open Sky" and was great in that. Thanks for the review and I mean review. Some review shows are more recap than review. After a recap you don't have to watch the movie, it's spoiled. Keep up the great work, going to smoke some grass now. 💖🌸🌺

[@JessInDreams7]

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it 😊

[@mohammadm7559]

I enjoyed this movie, it was slow and reflective and seemed to be a movie about finding joy in simple pleasures in your day to day life but I can't help but compare it to the movie 'Paterson' with Adam Driver who is a bus driver who writes poetry in his spare time (I know super interesting plot) but I feel that movie tackles those themes so much better than this movie and expands on it leaving you with more to take away. I might be biased because Paterson is one of my favourite movies but when you've seen the concept of the art and beauty of life and living in the moment done better I can't help but compare. To be fair though Perfect Days is still good and different enough to Paterson and still serves as a reminder for me to be more present in life I just wish it did more.

[@JessInDreams7]

That's understandable. For me, I think this is the only movie I've seen that is so heavily focused on just the artistic aspect and doesn't really have a standard plot, so I can't compare it to anything. It does seem like they didn't really want to tell you how to interpret this film and intentionally left it open-ended which may be why it didn't expand on the more subtle themes too much.

[@rcguitarcovers8614]

this is the movie that they nominated at the oscars instead of godzilla minus one. they say its because of the time of release yet the boy and the heron got nominated best animated film and won. this movie must be really really really great if they choose it over godzilla minus one.

[@JessInDreams7]

Oh I didn't know it got chosen over Godzilla Minus One.... Hmm, I guess they are quite different, so it's hard to compare the two. Perfect Days is really good, but I do think you would have to like this style of film to be amazed by it.

[@poposterous236]

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