Paterson 2016

     This film is about the every day life of Paterson and he lives in the town of Paterson, New Jersey.  He wakes up every morning at 6:15 and he has a small bowl of Cheerios with milk.  He walks to work and he drives a public transit bus for the city, it’s #23.  He walks home and greets his wife.  She has been painting something black with added white or something white with added black.  She likes things that are black and white.  Every evening he straightens the mailbox because it becomes crooked every day.  He eats dinner with his wife and then he takes his dog for a walk.  He always stops by a local bar during the dog walk.  Paterson is a poet but he doesn’t show his work to anyone else.

     I wish this film had more dullness!!  Then I could confidently say that this is the dullest movie that I’ve ever seen!!  Everything is a fantasy and nothing is a true story?  The most interesting character is the English bulldog Marvin.  There is one surprising thing he does every day but you don’t learn this until you see one scene.  Marvin always waits outside the bar for Paterson.  Ron Padgett wrote the poems featured in this film and he is the one of Director Jim Jarmusch’s favorite poets.  2 ½* (This movie is so-so)

118 min, Drama directed by Jim Jarmusch with Adam Driver, Golshifteh Farahani, Nellie, Nellie, Rizwan Manji, Barry Shabaka Henley, Trev Parham, Troy T. Parham, Brian McCarthy, Frank Harts, Luis Da Silva Jr.

Note:  Imdb 7.4 out of 10, 96% critic 71% audience on Rotten Tomatoes, Roger Ebert 4*, Amazon 3.7* out of 5* with 233 reviews, Metacritic 90 out of 100 with 41 critics 8* out of 10* with 104 reviews.

Special Note:  Filmed in Great Falls Historic District and Paterson, New Jersey; Yonkers and Queens, New York.  Golshifteh Farahani is from Iran.  Adam Driver went to bus driving school for his role in this film.  The production crew was arranging for him to get a bus license but he enrolled in the school on his own before they had it organized.  The Man rapping in the laundry is played by Method Man, he is a member of Wu Tang Clan.  Laura mentions a dream where she had twins.  After she talks about this, Paterson begins to encounter twins.  He sees them on his way to work in the bar and twice on the bus.  A young poet appears to be a twin.  Characters begin to make comments on the coincidence of Paterson having the same name as the town where he lives?  Also, coincidentally Adam is a driver and that is his last name!