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In May of this year, 67 years oldHiroshi HiroshiWith a new work"Perfect Day".Emperor at the Cannes Film Festival. This is the second time that a Japanese actor has won the Best Actor award at Cannes after 14-year-old Yuya Yanagi ("Nobody Knows").
The film is directed by GermanyWim WendersDirected by a toilet cleaner in Tokyo, it is about the daily work and trivial life of a toilet cleaner in Tokyo. The film was originally an art short film about the beauty of toilets in Tokyo, but because he was not satisfied with the time limit, he decided to simply use the toilet as the main scene and expand into a feature film, so this film was born.
Movie protagonistHirayamaI work for a private company called "Tokyo Toilet Cleaning" and is responsible for cleaning all public toilets in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo. Every day, he wakes up in the early morning light, freshens up, puts on his blue overalls, buys a cup of coffee at the vending machine at the door, and drives to work.
In the toilets in the area he is responsible for, Hirayama is engrossed in his work. Picking up garbage, cleaning urinals, and scrubbing countertops, he is meticulous and conscientious, and almost does not miss any dead ends. And his partner Takashi always looks at his mobile phone while cleaning, which is perfunctory.
When someone is convenient, Hirayama is waiting at the door. At this point, he would look up at the trees above him and smile with satisfaction as the light and shadow swayed.
At lunchtime, he is Xi taking pictures of the trees above his head on the park benches, and when he encounters fresh saplings, he will also transplant them home.
On the round-trip drive, Hirayama likes to listen to the songs of the former rock singer Lou Reid on an old cassette tape, starting and ending the day in the sound of nostalgia.
At the end of his work, he would go to a nearby bathhouse to take a bath, go to a tavern in the subway for a drink, or go to a nearby restaurant to order Japanese food recommended by the proprietress and then go home, read, and sleep contentedly. The next few days were much the same, simply repeated.
A daily routine of cleaning the toilet, a narrative like a running account, was filmedSimple and plainpoetic and beautiful. This is due to director Wim Wenders's sensual control of the image and the pursuit of detail.
As a representative of the climax of the German New Film Movement, Wenders's films always express his search for the meaning of existence and the question of existence in an anti-narrative way. In his past films, the protagonist always embarks on a journey by chance, looking for something at a loss.
Whether it is "Alice's City Odyssey", it is a ** report of a German photojournalist driving back and forth on the highway;The young writer in "The Wrong Move" who embarks on a journey to get out of nothingness and find inspiration;Or the wandering man in "Paris, Texas" who is lost in the barren desert of Texas and looking for his lost wife, the philosophical atmosphere inspired by these "wanderers" is both sensual and speculative, which is a major feature of Wenders's films.
The most typical is the angel who wanders the city and listens to the inner monologues of the masses in "Under the Berlin Sky", who cannot give them any comfort, but can only quietly watch them fall into melancholy, pain and helplessness.
In the compassionate eyes of the angel, the inner landscape of everyone in the city is equal, until he falls in love, begins to yearn for the real sense of being alive, feels the pleasure of being alive in a cup of coffee, a handshake, a touch, and finally chooses to become a short but sentient life.
Wenders brings this philosophical speculation to every one of his works, and this is especially true of Perfect Day.
He borrowed from his idol Yasujiro OzuCivilian narrative perspective, in a soothing style, conveys the rich inner world of a toilet cleaner beneath the lustless exterior. On the surface, the repetitive narrative seems to present the daily life in a redundant and monotonous way, but in fact, he uses this repetition to express his special treatment and thinking about the characters.
For example, the recurring tapes of movies are the rock music of the era, the paper books read every night, and the film cameras that record the trees every day, all of which have a common label"Nostalgia"., they constitute the rich spiritual world of Hirayama. He was a man living in the past, time flowed through him, and everything on the outside seemed insignificant, because the spiritual part was preserved.
And these are the keys to supporting him to cope with the ordinary life. It is these marks of his past life that give him a different perceptual perspective. is like the angel in "Under the Berlin Sky", who is happy for every grass and tree, every person and everything.
This slightly Zen-like character setting is reminiscent of the ascetic Siddhartha presented in the German writer Hesse's Siddhartha. In his early years, in order to seek the truth and the meaning of life, he ran away from the noble Brahmin, met the enlightened Gautama, listened to his teachings, and then fell into the world, indulging in the sound of dogs and horses, until in his later years, he truly had an epiphany, lived a quiet and peaceful life of cultivation, and achieved harmony and ease.
In the film, Hiroshi Yakusho also made us perceive such a thing through the creation of the role of Hirayama"Sweeping monk".The temperament of the characters. He not only treats the dirty and undignified work of others seriously and peacefully, but also carefully understands the flow and temperature of life. For example, when he found a note caught in the gap in the toilet, he initially planned to throw it away as garbage, but he finally decided to follow the stranger's frequency and respond to his chess game.
Another example, the dancing girl's appreciation for him and the appearance and departure of his niece, all these are parts of our daily life that we cannot anticipate and cannot escape. The joy of the appearance of relatives and friends and the loss of leaving seem to others to be the annoyance of seven emotions and six desires, but in Hirayama's eyes, just like the song "Perfect Day" by Lou Reed, it is a "perfect day".
This kind of Japanese light philosophical thinking and image aesthetics allows us to see many shadows of Yasujiro Ozu. And this film may also be Wenders' tribute to his idol with the help of images. In the documentary "Looking for Ozu" filmed, Wenders said in ** after visiting Ozu's cemetery: "A real movie that flashes a moment is not just a moment, it is so real from the beginning to the end, a movie that tells the story of life, where the people, things, streets, and landscapes have enlightened themselves through a real gesture - today's movies should show reality like this." But it's not like that, it's all from the past: nothingness, emptiness, that governs the present age. ”
In this documentary, Wenders replaces the serene and serene Tokyo atmosphere of Ozu's films with a game of marbles, modified golf, and noisy scenes surrounded by fake food, expressing his sad and critical attitude towards the onslaught of modernity.
And "Perfect Day" can be said to be another discovery of Wenders's current Tokyo, behind all the noise and emptiness, he uses the character of HirayamaThe meaning of the everyday is reaffirmed。Press the shutter at the moment you look up at the sky, keep the fragments of time flowing, and record the beauty and truth of life.