Jarmusch's films are often misunderstood as cool or even 13, which is completely understandable, given his own musical tastes and those of his friends in the music industry, as well as the frequent references and references to pop culture in his films. We cannot say that this view is wrong, but it is not accurate, or it is far from summarizing the characteristics of Jarmusch as a director. There are more and more interesting things in his films that deserve our attention, such as how to Tell a story about a person.
The themes of his films are generally human loneliness and death, depictions of ordinary everyday life, and a celebration of art and imagination.
He is even more anti-type than his predecessor Robert Altman. This movie, like his other "Ghost Dog Killer", is completely "anti-killer movie". The killer didn't have a relationship with the femme fatale, the gun wasn't hidden in the guitar, and the killer didn't make it all the way to the fort.
In addition to being a director, Jarmusch is also a musician and poet, so it's understandable that he doesn't care about the storyline of the movie. In this movie, even the character of the main character doesn't bother to be portrayed too much. Like many of his other films, the story is fragmented, and the episodes where he takes the code with various people doesn't really contribute much to the plot. The composition and texture of the picture, the buildings appearing in the picture, the walking of the protagonist, the ritual repetition in life, the relationship between the characters, these are the points of interest to him.
To understand Jarmusch's story, one has to look at the essence through the phenomena, to be able to see the metaphors of various objects and plots. From the Madrid metropolis to the small town of Seville to the desert of Almeria, it seems to be the evolution of a person from youth to adulthood to old age. The blank note and painting at the end correspond to Ozu's epitaph "No". Jarmusch believes that human beings are born with death, but there are so many beautiful things in human life that are worthy of praise and enjoyment. Art is such a kind of thing, so his films are always sad but beautiful.
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