Review of Paterson

Paterson (2016)
6/10
Meh
21 May 2021
My life is like poetry. I hate poetry.

I have heard about this movie for being a great mundane slice-of-life movie, so I decided to watch it on Amazon Prime.

I like everyday-life movies, as I found them interesting and that I can learn about different lives. However, this movie was an extreme slice-of-life one, as it's only about a guy who drives bus and write poems for a week.

Nothing happened, like nothing. At the beginning, I was pretty on board with the film as it showed the life of the main guy pretty well. There were funny parts in his life. The most interesting aspect was him when he was driving on the bus. Each day, there's different people with different stories that he listened to.

The story progressed with the main character writing poems, which seemed to reflect himself and his life. Since I didn't care much about poetry, especially modern poetry, the poems didn't really appeal to me. I also was pretty annoyed at the character's wife.

Adam Driver played the main character, and he portrayed the emotion (if there is any) and the personality well. I definitely saw a man who's just walking through life and was used to his monotonous life.

Overall, unfortunately I was pretty bored even though there was some funny and interesting scenes. 6/10.
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