NP - Patterson Movie

[Smoke Teff]

Re days of week:

We see a character do on a day labelled Tuesday what we saw him do earlier
on a day labelled Monday and we think, somehow, by nature of the movie
telling us this day has different name, that this day will have to be
different, different outcomes (which our minds, being storymakers, fill
with danger). It can't just be the same thing day after day, can it?

On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 12:14 AM, Smoke Teff <smoketeff at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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