Perfect Days
"The world is made of many worlds. Some of them are connected, some are not."
Connecting them requires very little, a simple embrace, or a day spent with your niece.
It takes so little for a mask to crumble.
When you manage to connect with your own emotions, you begin to see the world from a different perspective.
You begin to suffer because of it; your routines start to shift. You try to cling to that mask once again, but you realize the feeling is no longer the same.
Perfect Days is exactly this. Hirayama is its symbol, and the final scene is its ultimate manifestation.
After all, it is unthinkable and detrimental to believe that living a life of loneliness and isolation can ever be something healthy.
A film that is a true masterpiece, representing an uncomfortable truth and a wake-up call for many of us.