Paterson (2016)
Genre: Drama / Comedy
Duration: 118 minuten
Country:
United States / France / Germany
Directed by: Jim Jarmusch
Stars: Adam Driver, Golshifteh Farahani and Kara Hayward
IMDb score:
7,3 (95.033)
Releasedate: 17 November 2016
Paterson plot
Paterson is a bus driver in the eponymous city of Paterson, New Jersey. Paterson maintains a simple routine: he drives his daily route, observes the city through his windshield and hears conversations that take place around him. He writes poems in his book, takes the dog out, stops at a bar and orders a beer. He then heads home to his wife Laura. Laura's world, on the other hand, is different every day. Almost every day she has new dreams, each time a different, inspiring project. Paterson loves Laura and she loves him. He supports her ambitions and she admires him for his secret gift for poetry.
Actors and actresses
Paterson
Laura
Method Man
Marie
Everett
Japanese Poet
Marvin
Donny
Boy on Bus 1
Reviews & comments
Zhero
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- 80 messages
- 213 votes
Water falls
Water falls from bright air.
It falls like hair, falling across a young girl's shoulders.
Water falls making pools in the asphalt,
dirty mirrors with clouds and buildings inside.
It falls on the roof of my house.
It falls on my mother and on my hair.
Most people call it rain.
This poem sums up the movie exactly. It is about standing still and being open to your surroundings. Your oh so boring life can suddenly contain a lot of beauty. Do we then need such a busy and ambitious life as in our present time (the question the film seems to ask)?
The film is about Paterson in the town of Paterson who leads a seemingly boring life with a tight routine. During the day he is a bus driver and in between he writes poems inspired by situations and people he encounters during the bus journey or beyond. His girlfriend is a 'creative' and works at home during the day on patterns on curtains, baking muffins and sometimes she suddenly plays the guitar. Fortunately, the film is portrayed with humor (eg the dog), fortunately the film does not take itself very seriously. Not much happens in the film, but Paterson is always positive because he doesn't live in the future and has no ambition (unlike his girlfriend who pushes him to do so). The nice thing about it is that you can see how his normal life inspires his poems and art.
I certainly get it if you find this film boring, then it is not for you. In my opinion, the filmmaker has largely succeeded in his intent and purpose. It was just a bit boring every now and then, that's what happens quickly with films that deal with the theme of 'dullness' (think Sofia Coppola's Somewhere).
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Woland
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- 4809 messages
- 3825 votes
Beautiful little film about the poetry of ordinary life. Paterson is about the bus driver of the same name in the city of the same name, and we follow a week in his daily life. On the one hand, not very exciting, you would think. Paterson is a man of routine who is simply happy with his life with Laura, his job as a bus driver, writing poetry as his hobby and his evening stroll with the dog stopping at the local pub. But Paterson is satisfied with this. He has no ambition to do anything else, he is zen with his situation, and puts the poetry in the small details of life on paper. Laura, on the other hand, has some ambitions, but those too are more dreams - and Paterson and Laura give each other those little pleasures.
And even if the film regularly hints at an upcoming spectacle, due to a broken bus, a car with guys who start out of nowhere about dog-jacking, a bar guy who comes in with a gun - nowhere does it escalate in the Hollywood way but it always goes like it did. usually happens in everyday life. During the film we see him meet all kinds of people in the city or (as a bus driver) quiz him; nothing very special, even ordinary people, but all of which are interesting in their own way. The girl who also writes poetry, the Japanese tourist, the rapper in the laundromat, the figures in the bar, the anarchistically interested students/students, all provide a fascinating glimpse into the world of Paterson, New Jersey. It is a loving, warm portrait of the two Patersons, both the bus driver and the city, about the splendor of a person or place that is not very intriguing from the outside, but where beauty can still be found everywhere in ordinary life.
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tbouwh
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- 5823 messages
- 5404 votes
Paterson lives in patterns. He does the same round trip every day with his village bus, walks his dog and then has a beer in his favorite pub. Meanwhile, he is happy with Laura, who in turn is happy with her creative black and white decorations. In fact, everything and everyone is happy. What on earth is the worst that could happen? Maybe the end of creativity. The end of the great creation, words and ideas in that simple notebook. Poetry. An identity on white paper. But the end of that identity can also be a new beginning for Paterson. Jim Jarmusch (Night on Earth, Only Lovers Left Alive) conjures in this beautiful drama with his view on humanity and the need to relax every now and then. A film in which nothing happens has never been so beautiful.
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