For more, visit: www.patreon.com/julianphilosophy

"One must imagine Sisyphus happy" Camus

The film was so soothing, centered around the joy of little things, the appreciating of beauty that goes unnoticed and doing things for their own sake. I loved it and loved your analysis of it. In fact, I came to know of it through your video and came back here after I watched the movie. Lots of thanks!!

Great analysis. This movie is certainly worth analyzing from a psychological point of view. I liked the focus of the character enjoying the details of life, but I also felt that it was a way to forget or overcome an event from the past that led him to this point.

This gave me a great flashback to my art school lectures. Great warm feeling. Thank you friend, lovely analysis.

I work nights in sanitation and spend most of my time alone, so this movie felt familiar to me. One bit you left out was the interaction beneath the bridge. I think both men were contemplating suicide. When they talk about darkness overlapping each other, I think the cleaner struggles with the fact that his body wont cause any ripples when he expires. When they play shadow tag, it's a bit like two doomed men making a connection. Trees get peed on, pooed on, they put up with pollution and noise. Yet they continuously give us oxygen, they offer a home to the birds and a playground for the squirrels. They are the definition of unconditional love. Collection books, cassettes and photos are a way of non-conforming, escape and they give him a sense of control. Cleaning is control. Cleaning is a form of chaos, reverse chaos.

Beautifully articulated perspective

Nice comments. Yet, I would like to say, it was sunrise, not the sunset at the end of movie, that, for me, represents rise of "another day", resembles as a regularity. Signification of in significant is a keyword of this movie from my point of view. Another detail was the watch, that he was not wearing during the workdays, but only on of days. Lastly, I believe there was something about dreams, yet I could not figured it out; waiting for the second watch to reveal. Thanks for the video.

Hirayama is a dream facilitator for those around him.

Thank you for continuing your work and enriching my life with your thoughts and reflections. This was a lovely movie, and this is a lovely and deep reflection, thank you. I think you are reminding me also of Dogen's words: Enlightenment is practice, and practice is enlightenment (and enlightenment isn't special).

I really enjoyed that movie: the acting performances, the tokyo planes, the modern bathrooms, the soundtrack, the way in which time and repetition was portrayed as you said, etc. Love the way the movie doesn't exactly praise that lifestyle (nor condemns it) and that is also possible, valid, normal to renounce to the imposed pursuit of success or progress in the hierarchy scale. He is a failure but who isn't? Anyway, love asian movies. Regards from Bogotá.

one of the best analysis i have seen on the internet , thank you so much for sharing your thoughts about this movie

Thank you for doing this. I enjoyed it and found it very interesting. I loved the movie and reflect on it regularly. I saw the beauty of cultivating simple pleasures and routine but also the occasional loneliness and wish to engage in the bittersweet world of human relationships. The lady who he admired and his grief when he saw her embracing another man for example.

Just starting to listen now, and want to say how glad I was to see you’d made a video about this very beautiful film!

I totally agreed. The main character is completely centered and living in the present here and now.

Beautiful review! Thanks a lot!

I found this film very moving as well. Great analysis as always!

What's even more beautiful than the film..is your way of interpretation of every little detail which makes me believe that you have what the character has. I found myself asking.. why was he taking pictures like this and waiting to see how they came out.. why don't he look through the lens and take the picture as he wants it to be? Also, when he cried after he saw his sister, I wished I knew more, I started asking" why are you crying!?" But your perspective on this movie made me love it even more

Beautiful movie. Beautiful analysis.

I loved this movie, looking forward to see Julian's take on it !

I found your analysis so beautiful and thought-provoking. Could you share your thoughts on the music chosen?

This is one of my new favourite movies

I would love to hear your analysis on not just newly released film, for example the way you briefly discussed apocalypse now in the dune 2 lecture

Great review!

♥️♥️♥️ Your review is riveting, I only hope to write half as good

What would be Zizek's take on antinatalism,or psicoanalisis take on antinatalism?

Maybe the toilet system of showing if it is empty or someone is in it might be a symbol of the character's 'voyeurisme' (or I think you said flâneur?). When he is inside, he can see the outside, but he's not seen. He can participate yet he will not be recognized.

mqybe the black and white shapes/frames represents his fantasy/alternative life ,in the beginning of the movie we see it's unclear and maybe it's connected to the pictures he takes and finish up by getting rid of them somehow until he meets his niece then the black and white fantasy life becomes clearer (first clear frame is her in the bicycle) then he get a bit frustrated not knowing that is he happy with his life or not

Please do Zone of Interest! Would love you to explore it through dialectal lens

It's been a while since i visited your channel and it seems that all of your older videos are gone... Did you delete them? If so, why?

What do you think about the girl that was always there at the temple around lunch time?

What did you think of the books he reads?

yes noknowlngly most of us keep wasting time on dealing with never ending backdrop filled with emotional others..

How similar to Wings of Desire themes .. instead of a higher form of life an angel we have someone of supposed lower social status.

The other interesting moment is that he never uses toilet himself. He starts his day with brushing his teeth. Interesting why he is never shown using the toilet.

Has he chosen to remove himself from the world or has he been pushed out/didnt fit in? Can someone who has been pushed out really build his own world and be happy there? If he left the world himself why did he not remove himself completely? Why not become a monk? And most importantly, how can someone who consumes so much of the World through text, music etc claim to have left the world?

who does this guy remind me of

Silent witness** 🤫 🙊 😶

why did you stop talking at the end ? i want an hour version of this video !!!!!!

🐳🐳🐳

To me this movie shows a story of a man who moved himself out of society. I don't see that much of soothing in there. He paid attention to the details, and was greatful for every day. But the fact that he didn't moved on in his life and stuck in daily routine hints that something went wrong. I definitely disagree with the last scene. He cries and laugh at the same time. I wouldn't call it happy ending. Rather I see a man fighting everyday for inner peace.

The guy was abused by his father ! There not hard your over thinking

A pose of an intellectual who loves himself. Throughout your entire video. Making comments about a movie in which what matters is, precisely, the image of what is the opposite. Surely what you say is good, due to the amount of applause; but I can see that you do it for the applause, not for the conviction.

I've watched about 4 reviews on youtube on this movie, and 3 of them totally miss the mark. Why are you ignoring the final scene? Its clearly the most important and meaningful moment of the entire movie? It should at the very least lead you to question if the little smile at the beginning of the day is actually happiness or what happiness even means to the main character. But nope. Ignored. Just like the other 75%+ of you "movie reviewers". I guess not speaking the language the movie is actually written in is also a great hindrance to your understanding but still. How can you just ignore the most important moment of the entire movie and feel satisfied pontificating on your "philosophy" without even batting an eye. So cringe.

Can we get one on past lives?