about my favorite scene from paterson (spoilers)
Paterson is a big comfort movie of mine, but my favorite thing about it is how there’s one scene that encapsulates why the main characters, Paterson and Laura, are perfect for each other, so easily. Laura is eccentric and bounces from hobby to hobby and pursuit and is full of energy; Paterson is reserved, quiet, does the same routine each day, and keeps his art to himself.
But at the beginning of the movie, Paterson writes a poem (actually “Love Poem” by Ron Padgett) inspired by his observations of the packaging of the matches and how the letters on the package are shaped into a megaphone. It’s a poem I love, and that you should click the link for, by the way.
The movie goes on. He goes through his routine at work as a bus driver, walking their dog, going to the bar, coming home to his wife, waking up with his wife. She bakes, cooks, makes music, paints the walls and her clothes. He writes poems. Throughout the whole movie, though, they encourage each other’s pursuits; he never treats her new artistic pursuits as anything but legitimate and interesting; she encourages him to share his poetry, but loves his work nonetheless.
And then later into the movie he’s sitting on the couch, and she asks him about his writing, and he says he’s writing a poem for her. This is maybe the most beloved part of the movie; she asks if it’s a love poem, and he says, with the same quiet manner, “I guess, if it’s for you, it’s a love poem.” It’s beautiful.
But my favorite part is right after that. When he tells her it’s inspired by their Ohio Blue Tip matches, and she asks in response if it mentions the megaphone shape the letters make. And that mutual awareness, of the art of the mundane world, noticing that same little detail, is why they’re perfect for each other. They are very different people, but fundamentally, they both see art in everything. I envy Jim Jarmush’s (and Ron Padgett’s) writing skills.
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Paterson AU where everything is the same but the notebook gets lost instead of being destroyed. Then Jim Jarmusch, in an interview, will confirm that the notebook was stolen by Ron Padgett
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my awesome movie list of 2016:
moonlight (dir. barry jenkins)
la la land (dir. damien chazelle)
hidden figures (dir. theodore melfi)
manchester by the sea (dir. kenneth lonergan)
fences (dir. denzel washington)
paterson (dir. jim jarmusch)
aquarius (dir. kleber mendonça filho)
arrival (dir. denis villeneuve)
finding dory (dir. andrew stanton)
captain fantastic (dir. matt ross)
hell or high water (dir. david mackensie)
zootopia (dir. byron howard & rich moore)
american pastoral (dir. ewan mcgregor)
jackie (dir. pablo larrain)
loving (dir. jeff nichols)
20th century women (dir. mike mills)
christine (dir. antonio campos)
nocturnal animals (dir. tom ford)
hacksaw ridge (dir. mel gibson)
silence (dir. martin scorsese)
sing (dir. garth jennings)
kubo and the two strings (dir. travis knight)
a monster calls (dir. j.a. bayona)
lion (dir. garth davis)
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PATERSON (2016)
Grade: B-
It grew on me by the end. The 3rd act was emotional, not sappy, but it made more sense of the bigger theme & mood of the film. One of the last scenes is the best scene and the climax.
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