I really love this movie too. It's a fine wine that just gets better with time!

I reckon because it's just a wonderful, authentic, comforting film! It's one of my most rewatched movies.

I'm glad you came back for more! That Great Gatsby video still grabs most of the views for my channel (which I'm thankful for), but it's videos like this one-in which I'm not really critiquing anything, but exploring good things I like-that I enjoy making the most.

Interesting. What's your take?

@@ThoughtWord my take is that the protagonist has a much more ambivalent relation to its surrounding and the other characters. In a sense that paterson in some ways yes he does ‘take in’ the things he is aware of, however he is also very blind to it and blind to him self. Meaning he isnt very selfreflectory. His poems are some kind of reflection of his awareness and film aestheticly he is explicitly being connected to his surrounding (the double montage), but he still does not seam to take in a lot of other stuff like the recurring twins, the cupcakes (pumpkin), the silver elephant (the selfreflectory aspect). I think what i want to say is that paterson with his poems he is actually doing the opposite of ‘taking in’ his surrounding, rather he is looking away from it. I interpret the ending as his genesis of his poet life. By saying only this one line (“or would you rather be a fish”) and the rest of it didnt need to be there, i read it on a meta perspective. If you can say the movie is structured as a prose poem than i see Sunday as ‘this one line’, the dog as a antihero and the japanese character as some kind of prophet. In my opinion the last poem is the only good one and not film wise presented as kitsch.

@@kaanokcu7654 I would say the fact he is Blind to his surroundings tells us he is taking it in as we all do, in a subconscious way, I feel that's the point, his poetry is not special to him which emphasises his ambivalent attitude, it's just something he does like driving the bus. The fish analogy is alluding to the idea that he is perhaps in an environment that he is unaware of to the point of being blind to it. It seems your contrary approach to the Synopsis only reinforces the observations made

We'll have to agree to disagree. Still, the point stands. Poetry was back in the public eye (and ear) after Amanda Gorman stepped up to the podium.