"[there's] always another day, right?"

a soft, relaxing ode to the brave act of getting out of bed every morning, and continuing to find your own avenues of creativity, love and support in a world that doesn’t hand you any. practically radical in its insistence on a simple, quiet, warm existence where everyone in the american working class is striving, creating and loving despite everything else trying to confine them. your first and last piece of art is the life you live—monumental, highly doubt there will be a better movie this year.

some day i hope i can be this content and in love

adam (the) driver

I’m so overwhelmed. So many god damn motifs. This was like an episode of Louie but much better. I have a billion things to say about this. I need to watch it again or something and take notes and then write a biiiig fucking paper analyzing what all the little details mean. What’s with all the twins? What’s with the fireball thing? What’s with the circles? What’s with the black and white? What the FUCK is up with the Moonrise Kingdom kids talking philosophy on the bus?!?!!?!

This movie is a wet dream for someone who likes to analyze movies and I feel like I’m losing my mind AHHHAHHAHAHSH

this movie is all I want out of this beautiful but short life

73/100

Second viewing, no change. Still love everything except the one big, heavily foreshadowed plot element. Three small moments/observations that stood out this time (As Seen On Twitter™):

1. Paterson puts his clothes out every night, presumably so that he doesn't wake Laura in the morning opening drawers. Nothing is ever made of this; escaped me completely the first time. But it says so much about him.

2. Love the loud, mysterious clacking sound in the bar, which turns out to be a '90s-style jukebox with CDs in giant platters (with artwork attached) that you flip to browse.

3. OMFG the look of proud anticipation on the little girl's face just before she reads Paterson the final line of her poem ("Most people call it rain"). The essence of creativity in a single facial expression.

FINALLY some MPDGOC (manic pixie dream girl of color) representation!!

I wrote a really amazing review for this film but my dog ate it.

While most films tell you that being big and special is the only way to have a happy life, Paterson is a film that says it’s ok to be normal. It embraces the mundanity of life and shows the beauty of the people around you. It’s a beautiful film and I love it.

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty," – that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
- Ode on a Grecian Urn
Keats

With simplicity we can say the most complex things. I am convinced that this is a singular and universal truth. I've always considered it an artist's burden to chip away at the ugly reality and find the beautiful truth hidden behind it.

The world is, essentially, an awful place, but life isn't. Or shouldn't be.

But life more often than not gets bullied to the background and we need brilliant people like Jim Jarmusch to remind us of who we are. Or should be. Or can be.

Through Driver's absurdly overlooked, stellar performance, Jarmusch writes a poem that, like poems should, lifts the veil for just a bit, showing us the beautiful truth that made me look around and see my life surrounding me.

And it was beautiful.

adam driver is so strange and elusive and tall he’s like a sasquatch in so many ways

One of the most authentic, understated, tender and conflict-lacking/caring relationships portrayed on screen in quite some time (nothing overdone) as well as being one of the most genuine and fully realized portraits of America, the American Honey of the Northeast, in a certain respect, despite the two films being incredibly disparate tonally. And that score, those superimpositions. Plus, I gotta give props to a film that quotes my favorite William Carlos Williams poem and maybe my favorite modern minimalist poem in general:

"I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox, and which you were probably saving for breakfast.  Forgive me, they were delicious... so sweet, and so cold."

Also, Method Man should just have a little scene in every single film.

Did I watch this wrong or something? I was always a little worried there was going to be conflict? Glad there wasn’t but??? I also get really uncomfortable watching people eat things they don’t like - I get such a strong visceral reaction in my gut (Matilda cake... Eighth Grade banana scene)

lovely, patient movie

This movie isn’t just about poetry. It IS a poem.

The film shows us one mundane week in the life of its protagonist, a bus driver named Paterson. As Paterson captures the subtle beauty of his life in New Jersey by writing short poems, he also acts as the hero in a larger, more dramatic poem that unfolds around him, with each day of his life representing a new stanza. 

It’s beautiful and Paterson soothes the soul. The reason I only gave it 4 stars is because I started to lose interest a little over halfway through and some of the characters started to get on my nerves. This movie was thoroughly appreciated, but only moderately enjoyed.

“Sometimes empty page present most possibilities.”

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.

I've been meaning to watch this again for a while, and it popped up on Mubi so I had no excuse.

I love this film, it's my favourite kind of genre, and this just does it perfectly. Adam Driver is amazing as always, the score is incredible and the cinematography is brilliant.

The film just ticks every box for me.

10/10

Simples, como a vida é.

Adorei a sensação que o filme transmite da semana passando, e as coisas acontecendo quase que do mesmo jeito. E o ponto alto da semana do Paterson foi o ônibus ter quebrado. Muito fácil de se relacionar.

De vez em quando a gente precisa de uns filmes assim também. :)

kylo ren pacato cidadão

I don't like you Marvin

I don’t know why, but this is my favorite movie I’ve seen this year.