A seemingly bland but poetic film worth savoring. Paterson, who shares the same name as his hometown, is a bus driver in a small town in the United States. He lives a monotonous life day in and day out, but he loves to write poetry, using the fragments of time at work to create in his secret notebook . He listens with a smile to the conversations of the passengers on the bus, comes home from get off work and kisses his live-in girlfriend Laura, takes their French fighting dog Marvin for a walk after dinner, and drinks a beer at the same bar. Laura loves to paint and paint everything that can be decorated at home in black and white to her liking. She dreams of being a country music singer and encourages Patterson to print his poems. One weekend, when Laura made a small fortune in the market for cupcakes she made herself, she offered to invite Patterson to dinner and a movie, only to find Marvin tore Patterson's notebook to shreds when she returned home. His girlfriend tried his best to comfort him, and he said in a loss: those are the words written on the water. Patterson's gentle and kind character made him not lose his temper at Marvin, but just said to it: Marvin, I don't like you anymore. At the end of the credits Patterson sits in front of the waterfall where he often writes poems, and a Japanese poet comes, talks to him about their common idol and gives him a small book and encourages him: there are infinite possibilities. Patterson is finally out of the woods and moving on with his life and creation.
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