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All the while, coincidence washes over him and his community, making Paterson a film that speaks to the beauty of everyday life and the role of an artist in it. In this tone poem of a movie, which also plays more accessible than Jarmusch’s other films, Paterson operates more from the invisible structures of poetic stanzas than the freeform swirl that his last released film, the rock and roll-soaked vampire flick Only Lovers Left Alive, did. Like Lovers, which showed centuries-undead vampires suck up culture in arts, music and history only to live alone in their same unfulfilled lives, there’s a similarity here that Jarmusch explores. He follows an equally emotionless man who similarly takes in the pleasures of poetry without entertaining the thought of publishing his own or even the very poetry in motion around him. It’s this failure to dream in which Jarmusch sets up his main character, Paterson (Adam Driver)--the humble bus driver who coincidentally shares his name with the city where he drives his routes in Paterson, New Jersey, to show and study this noble pursuit of the artist as one that is only valid when it’s realized rather than romanticized. Following a day in the life from one Monday Adam Driver in Paterson. Courtesy of Amazon Studios. through the next in chapter-like fashion, Paterson is tuned to the rhythms of the day from sun-up to sundown. He wakes up every day to face a wristwatch that reads around 6:15, hunches over a bowl of cereal at home and scribbles some lines of poetry before setting off on his daily route. Then he returns to the home that he shares with girlfriend and bulldog (whom he walks to the local bar for a late night nightcap--a process that more or less repeats daily). But it’s in the moments in between the mundane where Jarmusch hones in, and where Paterson makes its message. Although he’s a poet who scribbles things like how love is like his favorite matchbook brand, he doesn’t tie together the coincidence that his bohemian girlfriend Laura (Golshifteh Farahani) shares with him--her dream about twins--and failing to see the many varied sets of twins that then populate the rest of the film. The rich tapestry of the city of Paterson hides its coincidences and meanings in plain sight. A young girl approaches Paterson with her original poetry about rain--a theme we see Paterson earlier write about in his poem about moving through trillions of molecules of water, showing the playful interconnected themes that link the things between the days. Instead, Paterson, the reluctant artist whose humility led him to follow his same life’s track of driving the bus and writing his poems in his secret notebook, goes about his day meekly while larger life meanings play out around him. Driver in the driver’s seat (pun intended) continues to shine in auteur-driven movies--of which this is the latest--delivering a finely controlled and nuanced performance. The quiet depth Driver brings forth in Paterson the character shows a man pondering the serious artistry of a mind stirring. It’s not that he’s an insecure artist. He’s just an egoless one, more content living a humdrum life writing his poems for an audience of one. His quiet but commanding performance anchors a film that is also as measured and patient--and within Jarmusch’s playfully dreamy movie, it’s not out of reason to think that Paterson himself is a physical embodiment (read: tour guide or ghost) of the blue-collar city. 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