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<\/a><\/div>\nPerfect Days<\/i> is a love letter to the ordinary, solitude and the working class. There\u2019s no big event \u2013 there\u2019s no big plot, hell \u2013 the description of this film alone would put people off: you follow an elderly man Hirayama on his routine cleaning toilets throughout the day. But little events threaten throw his routine off course: the arrival of his niece, and his colleague\u2019s obsession with a love-interest. In the hands of Wim Wenders; who gave us Anselm<\/i> earlier this year in the UK, this celebration of the common folk becomes something special: an artform, thanks to the talented performance of Koji Yakusho.\n<\/p>\n
We get to see what Hirayama\u2019s routine looks like when he\u2019s at work and not at work \u2013 his passion for music and books outside of work dominate his day to day life; and we get to see the people who wonder in and out. The music plays a big part of Perfect Days<\/i>, as an escape; as a way to vent out your emotion \u2013 Patti Smith and Lou Reed both dominate the soundtrack, with a love letter to cassette players and music collections. There\u2019s a generation gap between Hirayama and pretty much everyone; his current colleague, who isn\u2019t as committed, friendly, and begs him for money so he can spend time with a girl who he\u2019s pining after. His niece too \u2013 is a child of iPods and Spotify, yet Hirayama asks her where Spotify is as though it\u2019s a physical place in Tokyo that he can go and visit. Because that is all that Hirayama does \u2013 and there is nothing wrong with that. There are hints at his past; his confrontation with his sister suggests a history \u2013 she\u2019s visibly disgusted to learn that he cleans toilets now; but Perfect Days<\/i>\u2019 celebration of a life spent doing just that shows there can be something of pride found in even the most common jobs. This film does for toilet cleaning what Paterson<\/i> did for bus driving.\n<\/p>\n
The details of a daily life are told with simplicity that most films strive for but few dare to achieve. We get to see the interior of Hirayama\u2019s flat \u2013 his work environment, the people he encounters on his job, one by one \u2013 and the cycle restarts again; asking the question: is he happy with this life he\u2019s chosen? Is he content? He certainly has dreams, aspirations \u2013 the shots skyward of Tokyo and his life spent cycling through the urban sprawl suggest that. But Perfect Days<\/i> is at the end of the day, a celebration of a job and a life lived without shame: there are interpretations that you can read into him being gay if you want to do add even more depth to the film \u2013 and it\u2019s easy to see that he has frustrations with the past.\n<\/p>\n
The visual language at the heart of Perfect Days<\/i> is key to unpacking the film\u2019s simplicity and its subplots are simple and myriad enough to be interesting despite \u2013 or perhaps because of, the relative mundane lifestyle of them all. Next time is next time but right now is right now \u2013 nothing quite beats the perfect atmosphere of a commute set to a perfect song; a perfect day \u2013 and Wim Wenders\u2019 routine of a silent life well lived sets out not to condemn or to judge, but instead to celebrate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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