when you were little
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Jarmusch wrote Paterson's "poem" in a delicate and gentle style - a bus driver named Paterson lives in Paterson, New Jersey, the hometown of the poet, as well as a doctor and a plumber The hometown of workers.
Paterson City is the hometown of poet William Carlos Williams, who once wrote a poem called "Paterson" about his hometown. William Carlos Williams was actually a pediatrician by profession. Like the bus driver Patterson in the movie, he was just an amateur poet, but his poems had a huge impact on American postmodern poets. The academic poems are mixed with a large number of images, making the poems obscure and difficult to understand. Williams' poems are more like casual spoken words, describing the trivialities around him. Such a relaxed and plain style was like a cool evening wind blowing away the "troubles" brought by the academic style. Williams advocates the ordinaryness of poetry, pays attention to the poetic meaning brought by plain words, and likes to describe his delicate feeling for plain things in his poems.
Jarmusch's creation this time is a tribute to his idol Williams. He made this film in Williams' style. The film tells the life of Patterson, a bus driver, seven days a week, with some distress in plainness. with fun. Patterson in the movie does not think he is a poet, but just has the pleasure of writing poetry. It is not difficult to see that there is a shadow of Williams in Patterson. "Patterson & Patterson" is like the twins that keep appearing in the film, and the coincidence is poetic, and it also symbolizes Patterson's dual identities - bus driver and poet.
In this relaxed tone, the film conveys an attitude towards life with a poetic heart. Whether you are a doctor or a bus driver, when you take the life around you seriously with a poetic heart, when you really feel When it comes to ordinary beauty, you may surpass those poets who are too obsessed with artistry, create better works, and become a poet of a higher realm.
Although it is said that Jarmusch did not control his ability to make good use of images while imitating Williams' style of writing, he added a lot of Jarmusch-style movie vocabulary, but from the perspective of tribute, in order to express his understanding of idols clearly, This is also excusable, and after all, this is a Jarmusch film, and a complete imitation would make the film lose its authorship.
For this film, the last thing I want to say is the sentence that the Japanese poet in the film said when he gave Patterson the blank paper - "Blank paper contains more content."
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"note"
I've already eaten
those plums
the ones in the fridge
original
you probably want to
keep
make breakfast
Please forgive me
they are delicious
so sweet
so cold again
- William Carlos Williams
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