Jim Jarmusch
Paterson

He https://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/d/dc/AdamDriver.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20140506084452 (the San Diego native Adam Douglas Driver, a former military man, about whom Wikipedia notes: Shortly after the September 11 attacks, he joined the United States Marine Corps, where he volunteered for two and a half years. Two months before being deployed to Iraq, however, he suffered a sternum injury in a bicycle accident. After further injury, he was medically discharged from the army.) um Paterson who lives in Paterson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paterson,_New_Jersey#/media/File:HOUSE_IN_THE_INNER_CITY_OF_PATERSON,_NEW_JERSEY._THE_INNER_CITY_TODAY_IS_AN_ABSOLUTE_CONTRADICTION_TO_THE_MAIN_STREAM..._-_NARA_-_555903.jpg writes his poetic thoughts in a notebook he almost always carries with him (except that one time he goes to the cinema with his wife) and to the joy of the little dog he forgets it at home and thus the four-legged friend finally has the perfect chance to stick his nose into it and…

She https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golshifteh_Farahani#/media/File:Golshifteh_Farahani_C%C3%A9sars_2014_2.jpg (the beautiful Iranian گلشیفته فراهانی) Laura is a very buttery housewife with culinary artistic inventions, she paints (almost exclusively in black & white), bakes delicacies, and engages in um, learning to play the guitar (singing too, in the hope of treading a new path that will lead her to success) purchased online…

The little dog https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Pit_6Z7hdE0/WIYq9sFpA_I/AAAAAAAAHNg/hIQgRyPZQ7Aro8rHejKCc1lPoUkidx6ZACLcB/s320/still_478557.jpg very amusingly waits daily for:

I° the master to return home from work (not before playing his favorite prank by staying at the window to observe the consequences)…

II° for the master to take him out in the evening for um, what he needs to do, on the way to the pub…

III° for the perfect opportunity to um, express his critique regarding the “poems” meticulously described by the master…

Amid the banality of the everyday, small emblematic events also occur (which I will not spoil here) including the last one, which is the meeting with his um, “similar” Japanese from Osaka (Nagase Masatoshi http://screenanarchy.com/assets_c/2012/09/GelatinSilver-thumb-430xauto-8378.jpg ) who came to New Jersey where the city of Paterson is located, because of the poet, doctor, writer William Carlos Williams (who penned the following verses:

Shadows cast by street lights

under the stars

head tilted back

the long shadow of the legs

presupposes a taken-for-granted world

on which crickets trill.

The pauses in the poetry are meant to represent the natural pauses of the spoken Anglo-American language, which also find resonance in the rhythm of jazz sounds. cit. wiki), as we said, he came to honor the New Jersey poet, and will accidentally start a small discussion with our Paterson sitting on a bench while admiring the famous falls of Paterson.

I cannot refrain from concluding with the last words of an old song (which, in my opinion, are emblematic and succinctly reflect life and the film) that have been swirling in Paterson's head for some time, which he instantly skillfully writes down in his new notebook received as a gift from the tourist aha Japanese and they are these: or would you rather be a fish?