Paterson (2017) - Stuck In The Middle.

★★☆☆☆

Is ‘Paterson’ worth a checkout? Well, it depends. If you’re able to sense the extraordinary among the ordinary in everyday life, you may like it. But if you feel like life’s nothing but work to do, places to go, things to buy, people to meet, and waiting to die, you’ll probably stop watching the film halfway! I’m sort of stuck in the middle, neither wise enough to feel poetic about life, nor numb enough to not feel anything at all but keep staring at the phone like that’s all that matters, so…

This is a film about poems, words to feel with heart, and experiences of our own. There’s no particular story here, and nothing dramatic or emotional either. You simply go through a bus driver named Paterson’s everyday life for a week. It’s basically a mundane routine like the one most of us have every single day. Somehow it makes me wonder why we need films. Do we need them to help make us feel, or to remind us instead that we haven’t been able to really feel at all? For better or worse, ‘Paterson’ is going to leave you an uneasy feeling!

I like poems to be honest. I like those in the film too. I’m just not into it as a film after all.