In 2022, do we still need poetry?
Paterson is an unknown town, even if it is not the famous Berkley, Brooklyn, Chelsea, the parents of the actor obviously like this place, so they named their child Paterson.
Paterson, located in New Jersey across the river from Manhattan, is an hour's drive from Manhattan. The most famous local attraction is the bridge over a small waterfall in the movie. Going on Sunday, there is an endless stream of tourists, not as uninterested as in the movie. Tourists come and go, get out of the car to take pictures, drive away, even if there are not many parking spaces in total, some people leave after a few minutes. It was a scorching sun, and no one wanted to sit on the chair in front of the waterfall, so B and I sat there, watching the waterfall and eating sandwiches. This was the first place we went after leaving NYC.
Paterson is Jim Jamuschu's latest movie, the last time I saw him was Only Lovers Left Alive, and I was fascinated by the pale and attractive body of Higgins and Swinton. I had just arrived in New York at the time. Look at Paterson, it's when I leave New York in 2021, it's not deliberate, it's a coincidence. Jarmusch's other films, either have not been seen, or have been forgotten.
Paterson is a bus driver, and the car he drives is the Paterson line; he usually likes to write poetry, especially the poet William Carlos William; William Carlos William is a poet born in Paterson, and he usually has a career as a surgeon. So I guessed that Lao Jia deliberately found a driver to play a driver. The driver was not a driver, but he used to be a soldier.
There seems to be a sense of humor, the name doesn't matter, it sounds good, and the name without too many messages seems to be better; the identity can be diversified because it can be self-created.
Paterson likes to write poetry, he likes to write little things like that, and he's in the movie, going back and forth writing a box of matches. How can such a delicate and nuanced observation not impress people. The same thing, a person, an object, anyone who can see the angle you can't see, can't help but find it interesting, especially his angle ignites you like a match. With a click, a small fire is lit, and then slowly extinguished, not too demanding, but the process is interesting.
Paterson's girlfriend, in today's language, is a pseudo-literary youth. Raising a bull dog, I've never liked this kind of dog, I don't like interacting with people, I have a bad temper, I have a lazy temperament, and I have a very dense round body on my thin legs. It is neither cute nor handsome. , the nose is collapsed but I feel good about myself, I still do not understand why it is so red. Pseudo-wenqing girlfriend likes black and white, does not work, but loves to try various things. I use Internet celebrity recipes to make unpalatable meals. When my brain is hot, I will make black and white cupcakes to sell at the market, paint my home black and white, and cut a dress from time to time. . Her life is full of black and white lines, as if placing herself in the atmosphere of a flat illustration. The special pun shows this kind of tasteless pursuit.
But, no matter what she does, Paterson is always very supportive, helping to walk the bulldog he hates, and agreeing to buy his girlfriend an expensive guitar to support her musical dreams.
Compared to the daydream's girlfriend, Paterson's life seemed monotonous, even lonely.
Ring the alarm clock, get up, go to work, chat with colleagues who live hard every day, eat lunch, write poetry in the spare time, continue to work, go home at night, eat, write poetry, then walk the dog to a nearby bar, drink One cup, go home and sleep. Week by week.
When his girlfriend asked him to publish his poems, he always said shyly, and so on.
What's so good about such a story? Maybe you will ask.
Maybe because I'm that kind of girlfriend, but I envy Paterson because I know it's hard to be Paterson.
My father placed high hopes on me and refused to give me a common name such as "Husheng/Liying", so I was fatefully unable to live in the same place and have the most stable job. I can't stand the monotony of my day-to-day life, and I can't imagine my work and life most of the time without anyone participating, or the people involved, everyone I know; but perhaps the one I'm most intolerable is the one who is exactly like me Paterson's girlfriend.
Therefore, I envy all those who are willing to live in boredom, so accepting of all that life has to offer you. Instead of pursuing the uncertainty that looks beautiful, accept the essence of how ordinary life is. Outside of life, occasionally dip his head into his own imaginary world.
Able to live in the ordinary and boring, so when creating, they can also devote themselves to their own world. It seems that the truth of the world is consistent with what they see in their eyes, and there is no need to adjust. , but the water waves are blurred.
How to write such an ordinary character so that people don't think he is boring, contrived, or a supporting role in life, and like this seemingly transparent person?
In addition to his girlfriend, Jarmusch created a series of mortals who were very different from him, those we knew very well, placed next to him to make him special.
His colleague, who is also an Asian driver, talks with him every day about all kinds of things in life. Paterson always listens politely and earnestly. He didn't dislike this colleague at all, and even enjoyed the brief communication every day.
The bar he frequents has a very dramatic couple. The boy was broken up, and he was still a failed actor. In the end, he dramatically took a toy gun and threatened his ex-girlfriend to be with him. When the whole bar was shocked, Paterson quickly subdued the crazy actor. The actor responded with a wry smile and said, I thought we were both literary and artistic people, you would understand me, Paterson still made a small facial expression politely. Neither admit nor criticize.
Compared to these mortal supporting characters who look a lot like us, Pateron is a god. Who doesn't admire God, who knows, in fact, God can be so gentle, low-key, and seem ordinary.
The waterfall is the beauty caused by the drop. Even the flat river water, even if it is flowing, cannot give people this kind of moving. The waterfall depicts the highest goodness in the water with a dynamic moment. It descends itself to a very low place, embraces all things, creates a rainbow with its descending, and nourishes all things.
Up and down are relative concepts, but obviously, as a mortal, I feel that I am extremely ugly.
Although Paterson's life looks so boring and ordinary from a distance, up close, it's our own life that is boring and unhurt. We can neither live in the present moment nor see where the river is drifting.
It's an extremely poetic film, even the plot is like a waterfall. The interesting dialogues of passengers captured at any time on the Paterson bus, the conversations of the girls waiting for the bus, the dilemma of the food and drink men and women in the Doc bar, are like a trickling river, the last accident just right, creating a little wave but not a sound Surprise, and then continue to flow. Moisturizing, it feels like a movie Paterson would write himself.
At the end of the movie, Ah ha, who is always heard, doesn't seem to be able to let go of any chance to be mirrored. He took a notebook from another poet who liked William Carlos William. Blank pages are so welcome because sometimes empty pages have more possibilities.
Paterson picked up the pen and wrote a new poem. oh would you rather be a fish?
The small river is still, the small fish swim in the water.
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