The movie "Paterson" is a typical literary film, which tells the life of a bus driver Paterson for a week. Paterson's life is simple and ordinary, even monotonous, but he writes in daily trivialities every day. Poetry: When he drives the bus through the city along the same route, the city scenery turns into poems in his mind on the windshield, and he also likes to listen to the words of the passengers, and then to see and hear Write in your own poetry notebook in the language of poetry.
Although Paterson is a driver, he has a quiet and reserved philosophical temperament. In his eyes, all kinds of joys and sorrows in life can be regarded as part of poetry. After dinner every day, Paterson Will go out to walk the dog, he will sit for a while in a familiar bar, drink a beer, and chat with people, whether it is himself or others, life will always have problems of one kind and another, and he just Bystander and recorder of it all.
Compared with the quiet and delicate Patterson, Patterson's wife Laura is an unrestrained artist. Every day, all kinds of weird ideas flash in her head. She paints various black and white totems on the curtains, walls and even her own clothes. Lara can bake cakes and sell them on the street, and she also has a whim to pick up a guitar and become a singer. Laura doesn't care about cooking, but Patterson has never complained except for a slight frown. No matter how good a woman is, there are always The downside is that good days and bad days are part of life.
Laura repeatedly persuaded Patterson to publish the book of poetry, but Patterson kept putting it off. One day, Patterson and Laura went out to dinner, Patterson put the notebook of poetry writing on the sofa, and when they got home, they were surprised to find that the pet dog had torn Patterson's poetry notebook to shreds. Fragments, all the poetry Patterson had written over the years, was destroyed. Looking at the house full of shreds of paper, Paterson was heartbroken, and Laura was chagrined. But to comfort Laura, Patterson put it mildly: it is just words on the water. But if poetry is just a sentence written on water, everything is fleeting, and poetry is in vain, then what is the point of Patterson writing poetry?
Patersonpa, who lost his poetry collection, was walking alone on the street, thinking hard about the meaning of writing poetry. When he was sitting by the river bank in a daze, he unexpectedly met a poet from Japan. The Japanese poet said he came here. Because I like the poetry of William Carlos Williams, and this is the hometown of Williams. Patterson was pleasantly surprised to say that he also liked Williams' poetry very much, and the two became happier as they met.
Patterson's love for Williams actually represents director Jim Jarmusch's personal love for Williams: "A key poetic proposition of William Carlos Williams is 'things, not concepts'. To sum up in popular terms, his creative features include: insisting on using spoken language, treating writing poetry as speaking, using loose sentences, concise and clear image description, opposing complicated wording, and resisting obscure symbolism. The poet’s admiration is high, and this poetic film will inevitably be contaminated with similar temperaments, such as a high attention to the daily life, a cool-eyed and self-satisfied attitude.” It can be seen that Williams’ poetics and aesthetic concepts are in the It's the same in the movie.
Before leaving, the Japanese poet gave Patterson a blank notebook and said meaningfully: sometimes, empty space has more possibilities....
Poetry is everywhere, but it is invisible and invisible. Only the eyes that are good at discovering and the quiet and simple mind can see the infinite possibilities of poetry in the ordinary and trivial.
This chance encounter restored Patterson's confidence in writing. He still goes to work day after day, walks the dog, and eats his wife's terrible pie, but he still loves writing poetry as always, and loves this ordinary and monotonous but hidden everywhere. Miracle life.
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