The world is still and plump, we step on the moon, and there is nowhere to go

Hollie 2022-03-28 09:01:04

After four, five or six times on and off, across three cities, I finally finished watching Patterson. The slow stacking of time.

Over and over, waking up at the same time on different mornings, on the same bus, with the same name. Going the same route, going through different people and conversations. On the street corner in the afternoon sun, the boy in the coat was Thursday, and he was never seen again on Friday.

All the emotions in the movie are measured by the size of molecules. Through the viewer, explore the psychological and emotional threshold of each person. Test it in a precise way, and when you don't know where the stack is, you can cross the absolute threshold and climb all the way to the edge. Every frame is the beginning and inspiration of an emotion. Slow and full of power.

So in the face of the most common doubts, confusion, dissatisfaction, loss, love, accident, and connection with the world, they are all presented in a soft, decomposed gesture that seems tepid. It seems to deconstruct the daily head-to-head and exaggeration. When time is slow enough, you have the opportunity to get close to the world and feel the occurrence and spread of emotions.

Paterson is the Paterson of a city, an infinite number of Patersons of a city. Sensitive to time, self-doubt, scene-sensitive, constant scene, changing weather and speech. In a vast space that is not bound by the world, at a certain moment, only oneself can be fully opened up. At any given moment, constantly open, throwing yourself into this terrifyingly overwhelming space, without rulers.

I go through, trillions of molecules, that move aside, to make way for me --- The Run

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Extended Reading
  • Katlyn 2021-12-30 17:21:40

    Revisited on 2021-2-3. God created the world in seven days, which coincided with the destruction and reconstruction of Patterson’s microcosm. The angels came to give oracle instructions, and the daily orbit was reset and normal operation (compared to the subtle escape of details in seven days), everything is endless. Like a long river of life, like a poem that lasts forever, even after the mediocre wear and tear and the washing of time, it will still be reborn. This is the meaning of going to the lighthouse-even if we are humble, we still have the right to (long for) poetry. Jia Muxu maintains his favor and cold humor for Eastern culture, and the soundtrack is still well received.

  • Sarah 2021-12-30 17:21:40

    These two are like marriage

Paterson quotes

  • Doc: Paterson, you still don't got a cell phone?

    Paterson: Uh, no. No, I don't want one. It would be a leash.

    Doc: What about the better half, she got one?

    Paterson: She's got one, yeah. And the laptop, and an iPad...

    Doc: She doesn't want you to get one?

    Paterson: No. She's okay about it. She understands me really well.

    Doc: [mutters] A lucky guy.

  • Laura: You're up late, honey. Your silent magic watch didn't wake you up.

    Paterson: Yeah, it was a little late today.

    Laura: Well, somedays something inside just doesn't want to get up. Ever feel like that?

    Paterson: Today.