God protect Ireland 🙏🙏
AND I DIDN’T REALIZE IT’S A FUCKING BIOPIC UNTIL THE VERY END OMG
By all accounts, Hirayama is lonely, miserable, and withdrawn: something unfortunate happened to him quite some time ago, but we don’t find out what for the simple reason that he refuses to confront it himself. He is very committed to his blissfully dull routine, and we see it over and over again - perhaps through different camera angles, with different people on his way, a new detail here and there - but ultimately all the same in his own little…
One of the countless beautiful things in this movie was Divine Eye leaving his street behavior behind to embrace the vulnerability, the compassion, this unconditional brother-to-brother love. He is like a scared animal hissing at you at first, all he’d ever seen is the world being hostile to him, but he gradually comes to trust you, and he gives the love back when you most need it. Prisons might want to kick them down, convince them there is no worth in them as human beings, but they’ll keep carving out little pieces of humanity and normalcy here and there, together. Art is collective rehabilitation.