It should be the most soul-crushingly bleak film ever made a Groundhog Day grind with added despair and urinal cakes. But Wim Wenders's zen meditation on beauty, fulfillment, and simplicity is quite the opposite: it's an achingly lovely and unexpectedly life-affirming picture.
Hirayama looks at the world with his eyes but sees with his heart. He has made appreciating tiny details and seeing the world with a profound connection to nature the keystone of his essence.
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