Always conscious of her branding, Laura's every move is like a little challenge to Paterson's norm: decorating the house in black and white, buying black and white "Joker" guitars, making wacky cheese pie. .....The "surprise" brought by Laura every day is not something Patterson can accept. The emergence of these undercurrents also made people worry for a time whether their romantic relationship can continue normally.
Until the appearance of the little girl who wrote poetry had a certain degree of spiritual resonance with Patterson, as well as the bar owner's wife's incomprehension of the owner's "chess game" hobby that night. At this moment, I really want to ask Patterson: Do you really like this girl who can't even remember the name of your favorite poet?
In the film, Laura may be the only person who has seen Patterson's "Secret Poems", which also coincides with the "Secret Book" that a great poet Petrarch presented to his lover "Laura". Even if various signs of splitting appear between Patterson and Laura, it is not difficult to appreciate the eccentricity of Patterson's inability to socialize, use mobile phones, and like to be alone in the whole film. The love poured out in the extremely gentle "Little Pumpkin".
Patterson is a bystander out of the world, and Laura is a more active entrant. She can lead Patterson to get a balance of life in these small collisions.
As an "out-of-this-world spectator," Patterson always sat in the driver's seat, looking at the lives of others from a spectator's point of view.
The particular scene of the bus is destined for most scenes to be a "conversation" rather than an ongoing situation. We can only understand the process of the whole thing as a third party through the words of both parties in the dialogue and from their narrative perspective.
The most prominent of these is the conversation between the middle-aged men: both parties insisted that there was a "hot girl" who wanted to sleep with them, but had to decline such offers due to their busy work and other reasons. At this moment, the movie doesn't ask Patterson to "deconstruct" the bragging of the two men, but a close-up view of their shoes and the slightly cramped footsteps due to the lie from the perspective of the rear-view mirror. This slightly "bad idea" detail design can properly make the audience smile.
Another character does not appear in the regular conversation scenes, but a monologue: Patterson's colleague, a middle-aged Indian man.
Every morning, after Patterson's polite greeting, he would naturally pick up the conversation: "Since you're asking that, I'm actually not having a good time." After a few short shots, you can learn from his monologue. Learned about his recent whole family situation and financial problems. So many self-care answers, nothing more than trying to drag Patterson from the perspective of "out of the world" back to life itself: Patterson, don't you have any troubles? Apart from OK and Fine, do you have similar difficulties as me?
From various such secular trivial dialogue designs, and Patterson's calm expression when he hears these words, we can see some of the qualities that make Patterson a poet: observant, sensitive, and embracing beauty.
Does he really live without trouble? The tedious work of the three-point line, the financial problems caused by the guitar, the circuit failure that may cause an explosion... Patterson just chooses to find "a box of matches" in these supposed troubles. , "the joy of a glass of beer", "the bravery of a pair of wiper blades"... Poetic life is probably the meaning.
Did Patterson never have something that made waves in his heart? Well, that's his "Secret Poems".
This collection of poems serves as a vehicle for Patterson to leave the world, recording the beautiful things in his heart. But his girlfriend Laura always hopes that he can show his talents to more people, because of love and tolerance, he agreed to this request. But he has always been gentle, if it weren't for the unexpected situation later, would he really go to the print shop to publish these poems? In the face of possible doubts such as "the bus driver can also write poetry?", can he still insist on being a poet? It's also a puzzling question.
In this film, the bulldog Ma Wen, who has never been friendly, destroyed this series of conjectures, and directly tore all the poems to shreds, finally satisfying everyone's pleasure of throwing a stone on the calm lake of Paterson.
The poetry collection was gone, and Patterson was lost for a day. But this kind of natural talent can always meet the light at the right time.
The Japanese poet Masahiro Nagase had a seemingly unimportant conversation, which made Patterson realize that anyone can write poetry anytime, anywhere, as long as they have paper and pen.
Being out of the world doesn't mean you're going to hate it, but to find a flower in the thorns at a farther angle.
The poetic life is not about publishing a book and making a name, but always looking at life with the heart of a poet.
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