“Paterson (dir. Jim Jarmusch, 2016) is an Amazon Prime original film about a bus driver named Paterson (Adam Driver) who writes poetry in his free times and on his breaks from work, though his only audience for them is his wife Laura (Golshifteh Farahani). The movie follows the bus driver/poet on a weeklong journey of everyday experiences, watching him observe the sights, sounds, and people of the town of Paterson, New Jersey. During the first day, the film shows Paterson sitting down to eat his lunch which was packed by his wife, and shows that she had put a Dante Alighieri postcard in it, which he looks at and acknowledges verbally before eating his lunch and writing his own poetry.” –Contributor Robert Alex Lee
Contributed by Robert Alex Lee (Florida State University, MA 2024)
