Although Patterson is a driver, he has a quiet and introverted philosopher temperament. In his eyes, all kinds of joys and sorrows of life can be regarded as part of poetry. Every day after dinner, Patterson goes out to walk the dog. He will sit in a familiar bar for a while, have a beer and chat with people. No matter himself or others, there will always be problems in life. He is just a bystander and recorder of all this.
Compared with quiet and delicate Patterson, Patterson's wife Laura is an imaginative artist. Every day, all kinds of strange ideas flashed through her mind. She painted all kinds of black and white totems on curtains, walls and even her own clothes. Laura can bake cakes and sell them in the street. She also had a whim to pick up the guitar and become a singer. Laura doesn't care about cooking, but Patterson never complains except frowning slightly. Even the best women always have shortcomings, as if good days and bad days are part of life.
Laura persuaded Patterson to publish his poems many times, but Patterson always put it off. One day, Patterson and Laura went out for dinner. Patterson put the notebook for writing poems on the sofa. When they got home, they were surprised to find that the pet dog had torn Patterson's notebook to pieces. All the poems written by Patterson over the years have been destroyed. Looking at the pieces of paper in the room, Patterson was very sad and Laura was very annoyed. But in order to comfort Laura, Patterson said airily: It's just words on the water. But if poetry is just a sentence written on the water, everything will be fleeting, and poetry will be futile after all, so what is the significance of Patterson's poetry creation?
Paterson Palmer, who lost his poetry collection, wandered alone in the street, thinking hard about the meaning of writing poetry. When he was sitting by the river in a daze, he accidentally met a Japanese poet. The Japanese poet said that he came here because he liked william carlos williams's poems. This is Williams' hometown. Patterson was pleasantly surprised to say that he also liked Williams' poems, and the more they talked, the happier they became.
Patterson's love for Williams actually represents the director Jim Jia Mouche's personal love for Williams: "An important poetic thought of william carlos williams is" to have something, not a concept ". Generally speaking, his creative characteristics include: insisting on using spoken language, taking poetry as the word, using loose short sentences, describing images concisely and clearly, opposing complicated words and resisting obscure symbolic systems. It is precisely because of Jia Dao's admiration for poets that this poetic film will inevitably be contaminated with similar temperament, such as paying close attention to daily life, watching coldly and enjoying itself. " This shows that Williams' poetic and aesthetic concepts are consistent in the film.
Before leaving, the Japanese poet gave Patterson a blank book and said meaningfully: Sometimes, there are more possibilities in a blank space. ....
Poetry is everywhere, just invisible. Only with a discerning eye and a quiet and simple mind can we see the infinite possibilities of poetry in triviality.
This encounter restored Patterson's confidence in creation. He still goes to work day after day, walks his dog, and eats bad pies cooked by his wife, but he still loves to write poems and this ordinary and monotonous life with miracles hidden everywhere.
Patterson was selected as the main competition unit of the 69th Cannes International Film Festival, and director Jia was selected as the best screenwriter of the 26th Gotham Independent Film Award for this film. This film was named No.2 among the top ten movies of the year by Time (American magazine), No.20 among the top ten movies of the year by American Film Review and No.20 among the top ten movies of the year by Watching and Listening (British film magazine).
After the movie, let's take a look at the director of this movie, Jim Jia Mouche. Jim Jia Mouche 17 years old came to new york from Akron, Ohio. First, he studies English at Columbia University. Later, he was admitted to new york Tisch Art School to study film performance without any film experience. Jia also studied film acting in Paris. 1980 participated in the filming of the film "Looking Back at the Water" as an assistant. Two years later, he wrote, directed, independently produced and edited the first film "Long Holiday". After wandering in the film circle for a period of time, Jia got to know the German filmmaker Otto Grokenberger, and Grokenberger taught him a brand-new means of artistic manipulation, which gave birth to a very wonderful film "Sky Shadow". Tianying 65438-0984 won the grand prize of Cannes Film Festival in France.
Jia is unique in that he can produce low-cost works with special charm-alienated images and romantic complex. Throughout Jia's films, from the early Stranger in Heaven and the Mysterious Train to the Canhua after 2000, and then to I Love You Forever and Patterson in recent years, almost every film's low-cost and small-scale production works also embodies Jia's minimalist creative concept.
Although it is a low-cost small production, Patterson is still a carefully shot film, and every frame has artistic beauty. Minimalism is not crude. On the contrary, symbolic novel ideas can often be found in the details of movies, such as recurring twins, eight to one. Obviously, it is impossible for anyone to meet a pair of twins occasionally every day, but in Patterson, there are so many twins with different looks and different ages in a week. The twins add mystery and symbolism to the film, and their appearance and existence are like those romantic but elusive sentences in poetry. They are there, just like those little surprises in life, and people who are not surprised can appreciate the ubiquity of poetry.
Patterson, Jia's third film work. As early as 2009, in The Limits of Control, he set the imaginary world as a new world where individuals can not only escape from political oppression, but also effectively eliminate political oppression. In 20 13' s Only Lovers Living, he explored the vampire state as a way of construction, so that people can not only be young forever, but also have a wonderful taste. In Patterson, Jia constructed an idyllic poem in a metropolis with daily order and ordinary people.
"I'm breathing poetry," Patterson sat with a Japanese poet and looked at the waterfall. This is the core of Patterson: the so-called poetic mind doesn't need to be a professional poet, and it doesn't need to be knowledgeable. The most authentic experience is the poem itself. No matter how ordinary and boring life is, why can't it be a poem if you have a poetic mind that knows how to feel? A poet is a person with a poetic mind. As long as we spend a little time breathing and experiencing the breath of poetry in our life, we can make our life full of unexpected surprises and feelings.