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Wenders' Perfect Days
A film about routine as a form of paying attention. Hirayama cleans Tokyo's public toilets every day; the camera watches him watch the world.
What Wenders refuses is the dramatic event — the thing that would usually structure a film. Instead the structure is repetition with variation: the same alarm, same coffee, same elevator, but each day's light through the leaves is different. The film argues that komorebi — the Japanese word for sunlight filtering through trees — is reason enough.
It made me think about how I structure my own days, and how much of "productive" time is actually just routine I haven't noticed I've been performing.
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