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Paterson (2016) 7.4/10

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A quiet observation of the triumphs and defeats of daily life, along with the poetry evident in
its smallest details.

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Exactly one week in the life of a young man named Paterson of Paterson, New Jersey is Summer
presented. He lives an extremely regimented and routinized life, that routine perhaps most a list of 27 titles
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vividly displayed by the fact that he is able to wake up at exactly the same time every day
without an alarm. That life includes eating Cheerios for breakfast, walking to work carrying his
brown bag lunch packed in his lunch pail by his wife Laura, having a casual chat with his
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of the day, taking Laura's English bulldog Marvin - who he would admit to himself he doesn't
much like - out for a walk to his neighborhood bar where he has one and only one beer before
walking home with Marvin. There are day to day variations which are often the ...
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After Paterson has come home on the first Monday, there is a shot of Laura adjusting the
curtains she had just decorated. She then walks into the kitchen. There's a shot of Paterson
sitting down on the couch, and the very next shot is her back at the curtains, this time
admiring them. Some would think that she would've had to be very fast to get all the way back Best Amazon Original Movie
to the curtains in time, however between the shot of Paterson sitting down on the couch, and
the very next shot of Laura back at the curtains, admiring them there is an Ellipsis. Repetitions
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Paterson: Morning, Donny.
Donny: Ready to roll, Paterson?
Paterson: Yeah.
[pause]
Paterson: Everything OK?
Donny: Now that you ask, no, not really. My kid needs braces on her teeth, my car needs a
transmission job, my wife wants me to take her to Florida but I'm behind on the mortgage
payments, my uncle called from India and he needs money for my neice's wedding, and I got
this strange rash on my back. You name it, brother. How 'bout you?
Paterson: I'm OK.
Donny: OK, well, have a nice day.
Paterson: OK, you too.
Donny: Yeah, I doubt it.
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Life itself is poetry
18 October 2016 | by howard.schumann – See all my reviews

I'm not sure if Jim Jarmusch ("Only Lovers Left Alive") in Paterson wants to make America
great again by giving us his vision of the way it used to be, or is telling us that we only have to
look around us to discover that it's great right now. Performed by a brilliantly authentic Adam
Driver ("Midnight Special"), Paterson is not only the name of the city in New Jersey known for
its resident poet William Carlos Williams, but is also his name. He is a poet whose Haiku-like
verses (actually written by Ron Padgett) are reminiscent of the city's own poet William Carlos
Williams. He writes a new poem every day (or finishes an old one) on the #23 bus he drives
before and during his trip. Though his loving, energetic, somewhat scattered wife Laura
(Golshifteh Farahani, "Finding Altamira") keeps asking him to make copies of them, he resists
the idea, preferring to keep them in his secret notebook.

The film has little conflict, family dysfunction, or mental health issues. It is about what works
and even (wonder of wonders) about a marriage that is not falling apart. Like most people with
jobs and families, Paterson has a daily routine. There's too much variation in his day to call it a
takeoff on Groundhog Day, but it does have that "same old, same old" quality. He awakes
shortly after 6am, has a bowl of cereal that looks suspiciously like Cheerios, walks to his job
driving the #23 bus through the streets of Paterson, listening in on conversations (often with a
broad smile on his face) of passengers who talk about anything from Italian anarchists to
boxer Hurricane Carter and comedian Lou Costello.

He comes home at six, corrects a leaning mailbox that moves daily thanks to his grumpy
English bulldog Marvin (RIP), has dinner (some on the exotic side) talks with Laura who fills
him in on the many projects she has going on including painting black and white circles on
draperies, learning to play the guitar, and making cupcakes to sell at the local farmers market.
He then takes Marvin for a walk and goes for a beer at the local pub where he chats with the
owner Doc (Barry Shabaka Henley, "Carrie"), and often acts as a moderator between Everett
(William Jackson Harper, "True Story"), a dramatic actor who desperately wants to reunite with
his ex-wife Maria (Chasten Harmon.

The poems that Paterson reads as the words are flashed on the screen are not about odes to
nightingales (though there's nothing wrong with that) but about down-to-earth things, such as
one about matches, inspired by Ohio Blue Tip matchboxes that have disappeared from our
lives. In "The Run," he says, "I go through trillions of molecules that move aside to make way
for me while on both sides trillions more stay where they are. The windshield wiper blade
starts to squeak. The rain has stopped. I stop. On the corner a boy in a yellow raincoat holding
his mother's hand." In other poems he lets the world know how much he is in love with his
wife, though he confides in us that he occasionally looks at other woman, something which as
far as I know is still legal.

To Paterson, a poem should be simple and direct and he is moved by one such poem by a 9-
year-old girl who recites it to him while she is waiting for her mother and sister. He
complements her on her poem about a waterfall, remembering a few lines and reciting them to
Laura when he gets home. Contrary to most films where, except for films about wealthy
financial elites, work does not play a big role in the life of the characters, Paterson makes real
what daily living is about for a majority of working people. The film has warmth and humor
wrapped in a portrait of a city which has seen better days, a city in which Jarmusch creates a
structure of closely observed small moments revealed with empathy.

Paterson is a man who is not looking for life to give him satisfaction but who brings satisfaction
to it, a man who knows that satisfaction does not depend on accumulating things but in being
grounded in who you are and what you can bring to the world. He comes to appreciate that
poetry is not extraneous to life but that life itself is poetry. Although the film presents an
idealistic picture of a city without visible slums, drugs, and crime which we know exists,
Jarmusch may be providing us with a welcome counterpoint, showing us the way our cities
should be and can be again.

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