Slice of life is a depiction of mundane experiences in art and entertainment. In theater, slice of life refers to naturalism, while in literary parlance it is a narrative technique in which a seemingly arbitrary sequence of events in a character's life is presented, often lacking plot development, conflict, and exposition, as well as often having an open ending.

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[–] 16 points 8 months ago

I think clerks would apply. There was even two endings where one was less open.

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago

    Lost in Translation has a lot of seemingly mundane moments.

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    So many options in Japanese cinema. It's a more common genre there, or so it seems. Nobody Knows comes to mind.

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Seconding this. Japanese cinema has this style figured out. A great recent example is Perfect Days. It’s a gorgeous slice of life film with a small but excellent cast. The main character is played by Yakusho Koji (a pretty famous Japanese actor) and he barely has any lines. There’s very little dialogue in the whole film, but it tells a tight and coherent story.

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago

    Nomadland comes to mind. Something about the whole movie makes it so facinating.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago

    Been a while since I've watched it but Kids (1995) might qualify as fitting the category (not sure if it'd be a "best" though).

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago

    Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) is often considered to be a prime example, I think.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago

    Mike Leigh does movies like that. For instance: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100024/

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    Dogs In Space, an Australian film from 1986. Among the cast is Michael.Hutchence, former lead singer of INXS.

    It's about a bunch of young people sharing a house in the suburbs of Melbourne. It has no real story, although from memory it culminates in a big house party scene. It's shot in a pretty unique way where the camera just wanders throughout the house and there are constantly things happening. Conversations sort of start and stop abruptly as the camera wanders around so you have to piece together the different snippets to develop an idea of who these different people are. Watching it sometimes feels like you're a silent housemate of these people, just observing their chaotic lives.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Would stranger than fiction count?

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    Good Morning

    It's a cute movie about little boys refusing to speak because their parents won't let them watch the neighbor's TV. Set in a suburban Tokyo neighborhood in post-war Japan.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    Recently I loved Perfect Days which is mostly about a guy who just wants to clean toilets while people keep bothering him.

    Its super cute and lovely and extremely extremely simple yet a really good watch.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    There's a movie with Phillip s. Hoffman and he's just huffing paint the entire time.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Gummo. That movie confuses me still to this day how it got made.

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    EO. Bits of people's lives in Poland, told through the eyes of a donkey

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    Slacker (this is the pure winner, there are no contenders) Twenty Bucks Chicago Cab

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