"Perfect Days" and six more meditative movies for the evening

"PERFECT DAYS"

Drama | 4.36 out of 5 on MyShows | 2023

Wim Wenders' movie is about Hirayama, a janitor of public toilets. He seems content with a simple life: every day Hirayama wakes up at dawn and, after a coffee, goes to work in a small blue van, while he spends his free time on music, books, and pictures of trees. But the balance of his measured life is disrupted when he is forced to confront his own past.

"So simple and profound at the same time. Really touched the movie. Touched some strings in my soul, which hasn't happened in a long time", — Murka00074.

"Wenders was very pleased to show in his new movie that you don't have to keep up with the times, you can just enjoy moments from the past and there is nothing wrong with that. Appreciate what you have now, find the beautiful in the little things and enjoy the simple, so as not to get lost in the monotonous routine of gray metropolises. Weaving into this, at first glance boring and banal, but in fact interesting story analogies to the historical events of this amazing, beautiful country, with mutual enrichment of two cultures. And not for nothing the final song was Feeling Good by Nina Simone. Brilliant!" — FortesQ.

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"Paterson"

Drama, comedy, romance | 3.85 out of 5 on MyShows | 2016

Paterson is a bus driver in the town of Paterson, New Jersey. Every day he follows a simple routine: he gets up early, gets behind the wheel of the bus, and drives his usual route. On the way he listens to the conversations of passengers, and during breaks he writes poems in a notebook, which he always carries with him. After work, Paterson has dinner with his wife, takes her dog for a walk, and on the way he stops for a beer at a local bar.

Director and screenwriter of "Paterson" Jim Jarmusch managed to show the poetry hidden in the daily routine and small details of even the most boring day. "PERFECT DAYS" and "Paterson" are indeed similar, and Jarmusch's directing style has always been a bit reminiscent of Wim Wenders, whose work he had professed his love for several times.

"A poem about human routine, with a lot of gray everyday life, but not dystopia. Also present are the bright moments that Paterson has not failed to see and feel. An extremely unhurried and meditative canvas", — wh1te_dreams.

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"The Vertical Ray of the Sun" / Mùa hè chiều thẳng đứng

Drama, romance | 2000

Late 90's, Hanoi. On the anniversary of their mother's death, three sisters gather at Suong Cafe to pray, prepare a memorial meal and socialize. Throughout the day, they laugh a lot, reminisce and seek each other's advice on even the most intimate matters. However, each of them has a secret that they don't want to reveal to the others.

The movie is directed by Tran Anh Hung, whose first feature film, "The Scent of Green Papaya", was nominated for an Oscar. In "The Vertical Ray of the Sun" he again creates a subtle and delicate portrait of a Vietnamese family, praising the harmony of life and everyday life.

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"Umberto D."  

Drama | 4 out of 5 on MyShows | 1952

Old man Umberto lives in a small rented room with his dog Flike. His pitiful pension is no longer enough to feed himself and the dog, and now he is facing eviction because of debt. To pay the rent, Umberto, too proud to beg, sells watches and books.

Soon the old man falls ill and is hospitalized. After being discharged, he returns home to find that Flike is missing and the landlady, despite having paid the debt, has decided to evict him anyway. Flike is in a shelter, and now Umberto has to figure out what they should do next.

Vittorio De Sica's Italian drama, based on a story by Cesare Zavattini, is not a kind movie about the beauty of the moment. "Umberto D." feels like a documentary (it's no coincidence that the protagonist is played by a 70-year-old university professor who has never been in a movie before). It's a leisurely, at times somber and yet tender picture about a man who simply loved his dog.

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"The Turin Horse" / A torinói ló

Drama | 3.5 out of 5 on MyShows | 2011

1889. German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche saw an Italian coachman beating a horse with a whip. He ran up to it and put his arms around its neck to protect it. Less than a month later, Nietzsche would be diagnosed with a serious mental illness that would leave him bedridden and speechless for the next 11 years — until his death. But what happened to the horse? The movie tells the story of how this horse lived and died.

"The Turin Horse" is, like "PERFECT DAYS", a movie about the daily routine and the leisurely pace of life, but shot from a bleak point of view in typical Béla Tarr style. The Hungarian director called "The Turin Horse" a movie about "the heaviness of human existence". It is, incidentally, his last work: in 2011, Tarr announced that he was retiring from filmmaking: "In my first film I started from my social sensibility and I just wanted to change the world. Then I had to understand that problems are more complicated. Now I can just say it’s quite heavy and I don’t know what is coming, but I can see something that is very close – the end".

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"Wonderful Life" / ワンダフルライフ

Drama, fantasy | 4.1 out of 5 on MyShows | 1998

After death, people are taken to counselors who help them choose their best and most vivid memory in life to take with them into eternity. The counselors describe it to the staff who, along with a film crew, screen the memory. Thus, in heaven, the souls of the deceased will be able to relive only this moment, forgetting the rest of their lives to spend eternity in the happiest memories.

The picture of Japanese director Hirokazu Koreeda, which gave him worldwide fame and recognition. At the stage of script development Koreeda interviewed more than 500 people, asking them to choose the one thing they would like to keep forever. The director later recounted with surprise that many people chose memories that upset them rather than happy ones.

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"Columbus"

Drama | 4.29 out of 5 on MyShows | 2017

Jin travels from South Korea to Columbus, Indiana to look after his architect father who has fallen into a coma. While walking around the city, Jin meets Casey, a young girl who works at a library near the hospital. Jin and Casey grow closer as they explore the city, its architecture, and their own conflicting feelings.

"A quiet treasure", — Sound_1.

"My comfort movie! No drama, no forced love line between the ggs, purely planton sympathy and wyb time. The shooting in this movie is just 10000/10. I would say that through the thread of cinematography here reveals a lot of things that on half-hints, metaphors, and understatement (although the whole movie consists of dialogues between the ggs) adds food for thought about being", — nicolss.

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