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Adam Driver Is a Transparent Eyeball

Adam Driver Is a Transparent Eyeball

In Jim Jarmusch's film, Paterson (2016), Driver's risky anti-technology approach to poetry proves to us that writing isn't a noun: is a way of being in the world.

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Caitlin Cowan
Jun 08, 2022
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Adam Driver as the eponymous Paterson (IMDB)

One of the top Google search results for Jim Jarmusch’s 2016 film, Paterson, returns as “What is the point of the movie Paterson?” The popularity of these kinds of queries tells me that this is a movie I’m going to like.

Paterson is about Paterson, a poet evidently named after his New Jersey hometown, which jus…

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