Falując. Kruche ramy świadectwa
Undulating. Fragile Frames of Testimony

Summary/Abstract: Paterson (2016), an intimate masterpiece by Jim Jarmusch, is a story about the creative power of poetry. The poetic mind of Paterson (a bus driver from Paterson, New Jersey) is immersed in the stream of reality, a limitless, fluid element. Those openly Buddhist resonances reach the spectator with a slight delay. A more careful look distinctly shows that the Jarmusch film is an essentially Oriental (in a wider meaning of the word) story: the narration, in its elemental points with an underpinning of a Buddhist perception of the world, is situated in Western reality.The film tells about the might of poetic perception, attempts at seeing the world in its non-objectified form, non-mediated by the current interests of the dramatis persona. It praises poetry as a selfless form of being-in-the-world. Interestingly, the Jarmusch film is exactly the same. Its contemplative and unhurried form, almost devoid of action, pursues an identical direction. In other words: a film that in its fundamental dimension tells about poetry itself becomes poetry.

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