On toilets, cassette tapes, and the philosophical weight of a life lived well Forget about the Oscars, Perfect Days (2023) is all you need this week. There is a scene near the midpoint of Wim Wenders’s Perfect Days in which Hirayama, a cleaner of public lavatories in Tokyo, lies on his futon in the amberContinue reading “The Examined Life: Wim Wenders and the Radical Ordinariness of Perfect Days”
