“What would you do if you had six months left to live?” asks the doctor who diagnoses a do-nothing bureaucrat with terminal cancer in “Ikiru,” a 1952 masterpiece I suspect precious few of those who…
, whose unusually understated performance is all the more striking, given what a firecracker the actor remains well into his 70s — ever since stealing “Love Actually” out from under a much younger ensemble, really.
’Twould be a shame to die never having lived, argues this film, focusing on the same modest achievement that the civil servant in “Ikiru” used to give meaning to his existence: A group of ladies has come into the Public Works office, asking to have a hazardous area in their neighborhood transformed into a children’s playground. A man with nothing to show for his decades of service, Nighy’s formerly ineffectual Mr.
In Peter, Mr. Williams recognizes a younger version of himself. This character, invented by Ishiguro, lends a Dickensian dimension to the retelling: Mr. Williams is hardly as selfish as Ebenezer Scrooge, but like the old miser of “A Christmas Carol,” he’s squandered his days. Too oblivious to know what he doesn’t know, Peter provides Mr. Williams with a unique opportunity to pass on what he realized too late.
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