One of Amway's films on Weibo, watching the introduction is a relatively dull film, so it took a long time to appreciate it.
The protagonist of the film is a man named Paterson who lives in Paterson, New Jersey. He is a bus driver and lives a modest cohabitation life with his girlfriend Laura and a bulldog. The story of the film is Patterson's seven days of life.
At six o'clock in the morning Patterson woke up hugging Laura, and after breakfast he took the bento box she made to the bus company. He sat in the driver's seat and opened the notebook he carried with him and started writing poetry. When his Indian-born boss reminded him to go to work, he drove the fixed bus and repeated the same route. At noon, he would sit on the bench opposite the waterfall and continue to write, continuing to record the verses that jumped in his mind in a notebook. After coming home for dinner in the evening, he took the bulldog for a walk, then stopped by the bar for a beer. He spent seven days in this repeated itinerary.
The plot looks boring, but the director often shoots from the driver's driving perspective. The mirrored reflections of the scenery on both sides of the street pass smoothly, the sky and buildings are exchanged, and the road and green trees are intertwined. The atmosphere at this time is very quiet, like a quietly flowing stream, people can't help but ignore the time that quietly flows away.
Passengers are often silent, and there are also loud discussions. They are all passing passengers on the bus, either noisy or lonely. Jim Jarmusch, as the director, carefully teases out neat contrasts in ordinary everyday life: two poor working men who brag about their affair; two college students discussing revolutionary rebellion; two little boys discussing ways of playing. He was a quiet listener, with only the occasional glance in the rearview mirror, and a faint smile at the corner of his mouth. On the bus, he is the master of the journey and the quiet bystander watching their lives.
Patterson wrote poems in his notebook while the audience listened to the narration. The tone is a meal, with pure enthusiasm and serious thinking, using a simple tone to describe the waves in his heart. I think the solitude of solitude and the hustle and bustle of work and interactions that he experienced were important components of his life, and ultimately formed a source of inspiration.
Like everyone else, Patterson has a neat control, his girlfriend. Contrary to Patterson, Laura is a natural artist, with all kinds of weird ideas flashing in her head every day. She paints various black and white totems on the curtains, walls and even her clothes, learns the guitar, and makes delicious cups. cake. Optimistic and cheerful, she likes to try different things, and at the same time enjoy the compliments, bragging rights and monetary benefits that come with corresponding. And he never thought of publishing his poems in a book, and his only readers were Laura.
He and she are two sides of a coin. This huge contrast may be like yin and yang in some people's lives, but in the movie his response to her is contradictory. He loves this beautiful and warm woman deeply and actively supports her various attempts. , while not appreciating the finished result. They are like two trees that grow separately, loving each other's appearance but staying in the soul's viewing.
On the sixth day after Patterson promised Laura to print his work, the bulldog chewed through his notebook, leaving him awake all night. When his liking is pure and simple and only one person's carnival, then how can he show the traces of his abundance to the world and his former self?
As a small transparent author of the official account, I can experience the little joy of being quietly indulged in self-indulgence. The world is so small, but it can accommodate all my thoughts. But when the trace is lost, it is terrified that the mind has been emptied, leaving only a dull social label.
Fortunately, the director arranged the most poetic ending, found a new notebook, and continued to write. Although the traces are removed, his experience lives on.
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Liu Qicheng
My Ignorance Amuses Me.
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