I have featured other important sides of dialogue in previous comments, either from Williams or…

I have featured other important sides of dialogue in previous comments, either from Williams or Margaret. Here, I'll feature an exchange between Peter and a Police Constable at the end of the script and movie. The site: Overlooking the children's playground (106-107):

As before. Peter and Police Constable looking down on the

playground.

POLICE CONSTABLE

It was negligent of me, sir. If I'd

persuaded him to get out the

snow...

PETER

No, officer. I think it was for the

best. Mr Williams had a terminal

illness and it was... right that

you allowed him that moment.

The Police Constable accepts these words like communion.

PETER (CONT'D)

And I believe you were quite right.

He was happy when you saw him.

Perhaps as happy as he'd ever been

in his life. So I wouldn't worry

yourself any more, officer.

Even though earlier, the scene description conveyed Williams’ inner state when on the swing-set and singing The Rowan Tree…

We now see Williams’s face. His expression is illuminated by

an inner triumph. A glowing contentment that seems to warm

the snow falling over him.

…the audience needed to have that confirmation in the form of dialogue.

And, of course, the song is a callback to a previous scene. In that scene, Williams was drunk and couldn’t finish singing it due to the sorrow he was feeling about his wife’s death. Here, the song is like a kind of hymn of joy about how he will soon be reunited with his wife in the snowy heavens above.

Lovely script and movie. I recommend it. And now, to watch the original movie Ikiru.