For most of his other films, he usually writes his film scripts with the actor/actress already in mind. “Paterson” realistic characters is made possible because of Jarmusch’s specific casting. It is a realistic film about the mutual understanding needed to make a relationship last. Yet, Paterson and Laura love each other and live independent lives without requiring the other to change to become more alike. On the other hand, Laura enjoys exploring new things and is constantly switches hobbies such as decorating her home with black and white patterns, aspiring to start her own cupcake business, and even dreaming to become a country-western star (just by buying a guitar and learning how to play it). Paterson is quiet, conservative, likes to keep to himself, and has a relatively lower self-esteem. Also, realistic relationships are not perfect both Paterson and Laura are so different. Instead, it is about a more realistic love in the sense that it’s about grownup love and work. In addition, Jarmusch incorporates other realistic elements such as realistic relationships, characters, and dialogue in “Paterson.” Albeit being a romantic/comedy drama, “Paterson” is a love film that does not involve its leads falling in love. Thus, his film adopts a quieter tone and is devoid of drama or action because it derives from the everyday life where nothing very dramatic happens often. In the same way, everyday life does not often contain big moments or big reactions. Jarmusch’s unique take on storytelling eschews traditional narrative structure, and his reasoning is that his goal is to “approximate real time for the audience” (Robinson, "BOMB Magazine - Men Looking at Other Men by Lindzee Smith"). This repeats five times for the weekdays, and the weekends aren’t very much different either. 23 bus line, eating lunch by the waterfall, straightening his mailbox, returning home to his stay-at-home wife, Laura (Goldshifteh Farahani), walking his bulldog, and getting a drink at a nearby pub. This includes routinely tasks like waking up around 6:15a.m., walking to the bus depot, writing poems in his Secret Notebook, piloting the No. The plot (if one can consider it a plot) of the film basically depicts Paterson going about his daily routine in a week. Similarly, the film “Paterson” embodies both qualities of realism and art. Thus, realism is considered a form of art despite it just replicating reality as they both aim to showcase and appreciate the beauty of the real world. Kracauer believes the distinct function of art is to help humans possess the concrete world once more as it literally “redeems this world from its dormant state, its state of virtual nonexistence, by endeavoring to experience it through the camera” (Braudy and Cohen 142). A similar thing can be said about film art. What is the definition of realism? In “Realism and the Cinema,” Rossellini states in an interview that realism is a “response to the genuine need to see men for what they are, with humility and without recourse to fabricating the exceptional it means an awareness that the exceptional is arrived at through the investigation of reality” (Liehm 137). This paper will focus on the realism apparent in the film and take a stance to defend Jarmusch’s “Paterson” as a phenomenal work of art. Centered on a bus driver/part-time poet Paterson’s (Adam Driver) life in a week, the film’s minimal plot and quiet nature sparks controversial debates about whether it’s a masterpiece or just boring and plain amateurish. However, “Paterson” is not your typical romance/comedy drama. Based on these theories and beliefs, Jim Jarmusch’s “Paterson” (2016) would clearly qualify as a work of art. Kracauer even goes as far as to insist that it is film’s clear obligation and privilege to “record and reveal, and thereby redeem, physical reality” (148). In Aristotle’s “Poetics,” he adopts the view that art “imitates” nature, or in Hamlet’s phrase, holds the “mirror up to nature” (Halliwell and Aristotle) This is especially relatable to film, which reproduces raw material of the physical world within the realm of art. Despite the changes art has gone through, one thing remains the same – art will always be derived from nature. If one compares art from the modern period and today’s works, a vast difference is evident. In our postmodern era, excess of production has given birth to a generation of consumers who accept about all forms of eccentricities as art.
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