NP - Patterson Movie

[Smoke Teff]

Oh, right. I forgot the character's name is Paterson.

Sexless because a movie about not strictly poetry itself but the maker of
poetry, i.e. about the poet, i.e. about a lonely dude? Or a dude who's
least lonely relative to everything but his work?

Contrast the compressive repetition (and kind of secret ambition) of
Padgett-cum-Paterson's verse with the effortless and self-regenerating
ebullience of his wife's creativity, which is more overtly professionally
ambitious but somehow more modest. Not really synchronous. Two beautiful
young creative people who don't even bone: being an artist is a bummer,
maybe Jarmusch suggests.

Granted I don't remember how the movie ends.

But I do remember liking the quiet, and thinking that the structure of the
days of the week creates the feeling of almost-danger where there largely
isn't anyway, in a way I found technically impressive and deft, just from a
story-building standpoint.

I liked the guy with the gun.

On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 8:01 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> The poetry of the main character, Paterson.  It was so dull.
>
> And the movie started with repeated twins when the match poem was
> developing. Was that supposed to be clever?  Not in my match book.
>
> The love between the man and wife was nice, but never a hint of sex beyond
> the morning peck on the head.  That should have been a morning wood-fest.
> Why so sexless in a movie about poetry?
>
> David Morris
>
> On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 7:48 PM Smoke Teff <smoketeff at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Do you mean the poetry in the movie? Or the poetry of the city's poets?
>>
>> I believe the poetry in the movie was written by Ron Padgett, FWIW.
>> Always a risky thing when art seeks to depict artistic brilliance within
>> its own/itself. Gotta be good twice.
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 7:10 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I think all of Paterson's poetry sucks, so it's hard to sympathize.  And
>>> what's with the twins? This ain't David Lynch.  Is it trying to be?
>>>
>>> David Morris
>>>
>>
>>
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