Paterson and the Poetry of Everyday Life
by Liliana Guzman
You might say Paterson is a movie where nothing happens. A man named Paterson, lives in Paterson, New Jersey and drives a bus. He wakes up around the same time every morning, kisses his wife goodbye, and goes to work. After driving his rounds he comes home, walks the dog, hits up the neighborhood bar, and goes to bed. We join him on his daily routine and nothing too exciting happens…right? Well maybe on the surface, but Paterson invites us to dive deeper than that, to not look past the details and to notice the little things that we experience each day.
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