"Then, miraculously, early in the morning, there’s this ray of sunlight appearing on this wall in front of him. And it falls through the little tree in front of the window. There is this play of leaves and sunlight and shadows moving, and he looks at it and stares at it and he starts crying, because he’s never seen anything so beautiful. He probably has seen it, but he hasn’t noticed. Then he realizes that’s the answer to his existential crisis, to become somebody who notices that."
“Having less is so much better,” [Wenders] continues. “As is being less distracted, being focused on fewer things. Most people, me included, are overwhelmed by all the stuff we’re supposed to read, see, own. Hirayama is not overwhelmed. He doesn’t need everything, and doesn’t want everything. His mind is much less cluttered, so he can see things. His reduction is a great charm, and it’s also the great power of the film. Reduction is bliss.” (x)
PERFECT DAYS (2023) dir. Wim Wenders
@pscentral event 26: minimalism