And some of us are really good at getting participation awards.īut Mary (Mckenna Grace) is a different kind of gifted. Now, aren’t we all gifted in something? Some of us are great athletes.
Paterson, like its lead, has more going on under the surface, and it’s dazzling in its own peculiar way.įirst-grader Mary is gifted. Our lives fuel our art and passions, so that itself gives it worth. The more you observe it, the more poetic- whether sad or hopeful- it becomes. No matter how ordinary, or routine, or small, what we do and how we act and how we interact with people around us matter. Paterson is an ode to our own beautiful lives.
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Just because it’s quiet and not overblown or even truly expressed, I just spent an hour and a half watching a week in Paterson’s life, just to to feel the pain of this moment, which in any other movie would not be felt at all. This really is a dramatic moment for the film. Until you start thinking about the whole movie, and realize that it’s not okay. Laura tries to make him feel better, but there is nothing she can do. Paterson doesn’t get visibly upset, because it’s nobody’s fault. Or at least Laura to do something.īut instead they just react. I waited for Paterson to explode into anger, or cry, or chase after the dog. I held my breath as Paterson and Laura walked in to see the notebook. Little sister Amy rips up Jo’s notebook, and Jo (understandably, from a fellow writer’s perspective) viciously attacks her. While watching the scene, my mind rushed to the other writer’s-notebook-gets-destroyed scene from one of my favorite films, Little Women (1994). Nobody except his wife even knows about his poetry. The climax of the film involves (spoiler) Paterson’s notebook of poetry being torn up by a dog. Well, it seems like nothing bad happens to them. Luckily for me, nothing did happen to them. He and Farahani are so lovable in the roles, that at the slightest bit of tension I was afraid something bigger would happen and I didn’t want them to get hurt. He is simply inhabiting the body of Paterson, and exploring the world around him. The other thing that compels the character of Paterson to be beyond what is on the surface is Adam Driver’s performance. The brain of an artist works like that, and the film is able to capture a rich inner life visually with both simplicity and bravo. The layers of waterfalls and beers and faces and notebooks, are all visual representations of Paterson’s brain. The shots of the shoes of people on the bus.
The cinematography of Paterson, richly done by Frederick Elmes, is Paterson’s inner monologue and observations. However, Paterson succeeds because it takes what goes on below the surface of quiet, calm, introverted people: observation, introspect, and a rich inner life. (Not to say Loving doesn’t have good elements, it’s just underwhelming) Loving doesn’t succeed as a movie because it takes what people see on the surface when it comes to quiet, calm, introverted people: silence and boredom. They’re even inter-racial like the Lovings, although this film does not treat that as anything but normal. They lead an unremarkable life, and are content. It’s about Paterson, a quiet, kind, dutiful man, and his slightly more eccentric but equally as kind and lovable wife. Paterson is very Loving-like on the surface, minus the historical importance. A movie about me would not be entertaining in the least.” It doesn’t matter how wonderful they are as role models… Quiet people simply do not have the onscreen charisma we are used to to entertain us. It doesn’t matter how powerful those closeups of intense expressions are. I said in my review of that film about the famous Loving vs Virginia case, “( Loving) reminds me why not a lot of movies are made about introverts. Paterson reminded me of another low-key, almost drama-less indie that came out last year: Loving. How could watching seven days in a fictional character’s life be worthwhile? How could this possibly be any more interesting than watching paint dry? I go to the movies for escape, not to watch some dude’s daily routine. In Paterson, one week in the life of Paterson is shown. He goes to the bar, gets one beer, and talks to the owner, Doc. He comes home to his wife, Laura (Golshifteh Farahani), who always has a new project to show him. Every morning, Paterson (Adam Driver), who lives in the town of Paterson, NJ, gets up.
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