The wonderful thing is that the title of "Paterson" has three meanings. Paterson is still the name of the male protagonist, and it is also an epic that Jarmusch likes ("Paterson", William Carlos Williams). Jarmusch has been working on the script since 20 years ago when he went to Patterson to trace William Carlos Williams.
Adam Driver, played by Adam Driver, plays Patterson, a bus driver, and the film unfolds like chapters of a poem, starting with waking up every morning, going to work, and returning home at night with his girlfriend Laura (Gersh). Fei Farahani Golshifteh Farahani) Xpress exchange ended. During the day, Patterson listens to the stories of passengers while driving the bus, and when he is inspired, he pulls out a small notebook to write poems. In the evenings, Patterson would walk the dog and have a beer in the bistro. Every day is the same rhythm. In the strange circle of time, we spend the "Groundhog Day" that passes quietly.
"Routine is very liberating and nurturing for him, (this kind of daily life is a kind of release and growth for the male protagonist)" Jiamusu said, "To be a poet and to drift around and observe small things, overhear conversations, you know, whatever strikes him. In fact, before "Patterson", Jarmusch's films revealed a lot of poetry, see "Outlaw" and "Dead Man" (1995). It should be only true love that can be so natural and moving.
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1984's "A Strange Shadow in Paradise" "Stranger Than Paradise is a very "cool" film, telling the story of Hungarian immigrant Willy receiving his cousin in New York. Although the script dimension is also a few days, the rhythm of Paradise Mo Ying is much faster than "Patterson", The contrast is as if Patterson was walking his dog and bumped into four young men who were driving a sports car with no reason to speak. Differences in styling clothing also inadvertently demonstrate the convergence of fashion.
1995's "The Stranger" tells a bizarre and thrilling escape story. I don't know if I have seen too much and Tim Burton's combination. Johnny Depp plays the male protagonist with his own gothic temperament. , rendering a sense of allegory for this western drama.
In 2013, "Only Lovers Left Alive" was completely played off. The male and female protagonists are a pair of vampires who have traveled through hundreds of years. Their names are Adam and Eve. Only their smartphones kept them connected, and everything else was so quaint, old houses, old clothes, and wooden bullets, that immortality felt like a priesthood to them. This is Jarmusch's brilliant rhapsody, "Jarmusch's realization that today having any knowledge and love of the past can make you feel like you're 150 years old." I can't translate this sentence well, probably because Jarmusch's realization of life In the present we feel like we are 150 years old after learning about the past.
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In stark contrast to Patterson, who is a bus driver, Laura is a freelancer who constantly draws black and white geometric figures, and her work can be seen everywhere in the film - curtains and clothes full of black and white circles, Pat Eye-catching oranges in Mori Bento, and those cupcakes that were a big hit at the fair. She is imaginative, and many new ideas pop up in her mind, including learning to play the guitar and becoming a star. Laura is Patterson's complement.
In contrast, Patterson is restrained and happy to be bland. His first poem in the film, "Love Song", wrote about why he and Laura liked the Ohio Blue Tip matches the most. Rabbi is like a cigarette, "blazing with kisses thatsmolder toward heaven." So the expressionless Patterson is actually hot inside.
In a way, "Patterson" and "Only Love Forever" are similar in that they are both nostalgic. The male protagonist Patterson is like a man from the last century, without a mobile phone, wearing an old-fashioned watch, and using an army green lunchbox. The movie Patterson and Laura watched was the classic thriller "Island of Lost Souls" in 1932, and Patterson met the parents of the black twins actually Sam & Dave, American soul music, R&B Musician.
And the language of the film is also inadvertently slow as before. When Patterson was writing poems in a small notebook, the screen would appear line by line with the brushstrokes, word by word. In the part of the small waterfall, the background music of the blues maintains the balance of time. In part, Patterson inherited the talent of William Carlos Williams. The small waterfall seems to be the carrier of this connection. Come here, time can go back , the old forgotten classics of art (not limited to poetry) can re-enter the moment.
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Adam Driver's facial features are very suitable for this role, a little bit of creepy a little bit of stay out, but very accepting and want to maintain the status quo. He writes poetry, but refuses to admit that he is a poet, but seems to be sad about it. Almost without using too many lines or rhetoric, Adam Driver expresses these inner dramas in a unique and lovely way. Because the characters are three-dimensional, we as audiences will feel that we are acquaintances in life with the characters. Adam Driver's stoic performance is fascinating.
Williams once wrote this poem, "Aman in himself is a city, beginning, seeking, achieving and concluding his life in ways which the various aspects of a city may embody — ifimaginatively conceived — any city, all the details of which may be made tovoice his most intimate connections.” If a poem gives you a sense of stanza, its words cannot flow (Williams once said that poetry flows with the Pasayk.)
This fluidity is The last stanza of the film is very vivid, and it gives the stranger from Japan insight into Patterson's heart in a short period of time. While Patterson's bullfight crunched all his poems to shreds, the Japanese tourist gave him a new one. The worries dissipated smoothly, and at the end of the seventh day of the week, Patterson was still a bus driver, but the little beauties in life didn't disappear from his eyes, and the movie was so simple yet so sweet.
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