Patterson: A sentence written on the water.

The film Patterson is a typical literary film, which tells the life of bus driver Patterson for a week. Patterson's life is simple and even monotonous, but he writes poems in daily chores every day: when he drives a bus through the city along the same route, the scenery of the city becomes a poem in his mind on the windshield. He also likes to listen to the passengers, and then write what he sees and hears in a poetry notebook in the language of poetry.

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 flash through my 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, concise and clear image description, opposing tedious words and resisting obscure symbol system. 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.

(Due to insufficient words, it will be reissued after revision)