Paterson, a small town in New Jersey, is a 30-minute drive from New York, and it really exists. The movie "Paterson" is set in this small town, and the fictional characters in the story actually live elsewhere. Paterson in the film is in the post-industrial era, as evidenced by rusted iron bridges, run-down houses, abandoned red brick factories, and five- and six-wheeled cars on the street.
If the material standard of living is only between subsistence and well-off, the pattern of people's spiritual lives is very different. African-American residents who don't have a washer and dryer at home and have to go to the public laundry room to figure out how to write the lyrics; the guests at the bar play chess and gossip about Romeo and Juliet, plus Anthony and Cleopatra; bus passengers talk about girls, music, and anarchy; a teenage girl who says she's not good at rhyming on a decaying street, but writes lines that prove she may have Emily Dikenson as her benchmark.
Water falls from the bright air.
It falls like hair.
Falling across a young girl's shoulders.
When she was her age, in fact, until she was much older, no matter whether I went to Lushan Falls or Niagara Falls, I was still satisfied with reciting a phrase that everyone knows by heart, "suspected that the Milky Way has fallen into the nine heavens". It is more important that your own sentences describe your personal feelings.
The protagonist of the film is also named Paterson. His life on Monday is not much different from that on Friday. He repeats the same routine mechanically, getting up, having breakfast, going to work, walking the dog, going to the bar for a beer at night, and getting his wife to kiss him every day. to a light barley flavor. Paterson drives the bus around town, walks the same block on the same route at the same time every day, and demonstrates the monotony every day. At the same time, he has another identity: a poet, whose inspiration all comes from the daily life of a small town in New Jersey. Not only can waterfalls be included in poetry, but they can also continue to inspire inspiration without wiping a match.
Paterson's bus driver's job is not as delicate as that of a thoracic surgeon, but his inner sensibility has entered the nano level. While Paterson in the public space has no shortage of opportunities to show bravery, his instincts for careful care are evident when he touches every detail in the real world, especially in his private life with his wife, Laura. Laura has no clearly identifiable occupation, and she is obsessed with decorating every object in sight with black and white patterns; curtains, rugs, tablecloths, T-shirts, cakes, and earns Paterson's compliments every time, rather than likes on social media. He doesn't need a computer or a cell phone. Under the condition that the cash flow is obviously not turbulent enough, after a little hesitation, he still supports Laura in spending a few hundred dollars to buy a guitar to satisfy the enthusiasm of early adopters, although he knows that his wife's chances of becoming a country singer are no higher than Trump's. too much. In the nearly two-hour film, Laura only made one income, and her cupcakes sold for $268 at the weekend farmers' market. Paterson immediately awarded the title of "Queen of Cupcakes" to his wife. After a little hesitation, he had a pie with kale and cabbage for dinner, and then he slowly began to chew and swallow. There is no hard-to-eat food in the world as long as it comes from Laura's hands. I understand his style. When I eat salads, I usually look like I'm enjoying myself, but I've always been thinking about steaks, which are made from the vast pastures that walk freely and feed the big cows with the tenderest grass. Eating salad is good for your health.
At a time when antiheroes like the Underwoods are flooding the screen, Paterson is a rare ordinary hero. Of course, Laura also did a good job. She recognized her husband's poetic talent and never wavered in her belief. Emotions in the world tend to have a good start, and how long they last is always a question, as characters like Paterson exist mostly in fiction. Destruction is easier than construction. Paterson didn't radiate even the slightest negative energy into the surroundings. He chose to face the difficulties. Most people in real life subconsciously take the path of least trouble.
The Patersons provide a near-perfect shelter for each other's sensitive vulnerabilities. Despite this, the movie's position on marriage is still relatively pessimistic. Paterson and Laura have only one collective action in the whole movie. They go to an old movie and come home to find that the notebook full of poems has been torn to shreds by the pet dog, and it is as difficult to put it back together as the universe went back to before the big bang. Maybe marriage happiness and artistic creation have never been naturally compatible.
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