The script of Perfect Days is a quiet meditation on routine, solitude, and the beauty found in the smallest details of life. Wim Wenders crafts dialogue that is sparse yet deeply poetic, allowing profound truths to emerge from everyday conversations. The film captures the essence of living in the present, exploring themes of change, memory, and the quiet dignity of work. With a subtle but powerful emotional depth, Perfect Days finds meaning in the mundane, celebrating the simple joys of existence while acknowledging the loneliness and uncertainty that come with it. Its words linger like echoes of past and future, reminding us that now is all we truly have.
Quotes from the movie Perfect days by Wim Wenders (2023)
How can you put so much into a job like this?
No love life if you’re broke?
Oh, ladies don’t like fussy men.
How can you still act like that, she says, with your wife gone?
That’s easy. I’m back to my carefree single days.
Why can’t things just stay the same?
For your hard work!
Is that tree your friend?
The world is made up of many worlds.
Some are connected and some are not.
My world and your mom’s are very different.
Now is now.
Next time is next time.
Remember what used to be here?
That’s what growing old means.
Patricia Highsmith knows everything about anxiety.
She made me realize that fear and anxiety are different things.
Shadows…
Do they get darker when they overlap?
Not sure.
So many things I still don’t know…
That’s how life ends…
I guess.
Let’s find out now.
