In fact, Gao's works express that you should be happy even if life is not satisfactory, which is exactly the same as life deceiving you. "The world has abused me thousands of times, and I treat the world like the first love" is an optimistic attitude towards life.
Patterson, the hero of the film, tells us another aesthetics of life-insisting on inner peace and freedom can lead a poetic life as scheduled. At the same time, it also tells us that if the spiritual world is rich, the material life will not be lacking.
Judging from the overall style of the film, Patterson and Laura's life is as calm as water, without any waves. They have their own hobbies, one is passion and the other is inner peace.
People who can stick to their beliefs are often calm as water on the surface and passionate inside.
Parkinson, an ordinary bus driver, lives an ordinary life without ups and downs on the surface. No one knows that he is actually a romantic poet lover except his wife Laura.
From the flash of light in the morning, to creative thinking on the way out, to remembering writing before work, to continuing writing at lunch, and then to reappearing and sharing works after work ... Patterson loves poetry, and he can trigger inspiration at any time and imagine creation anywhere.
It is his wish to write poems every day. Poetry makes his inner passion erupt, and it is precisely because of the satisfaction of this desire that his surface is inner peace.
Beautiful yearning is the source of poetic life. This ordinary bus driver has found the joy of life in the unchanging life and yearned for poetry, thus having a poetic life higher than reality. So what is a poetic life?
He sticks to his inner desire for poetry creation, is not bound by the complicated world, and has peace of mind and freedom of poetry.
He regards life far above reality. Poetic life is to make life higher than reality.
He loves poetry and has the romantic temperament of a poet. He thinks his poems are floating on the water, free and unrestrained. He loves poetry, but he never wants to make his beautiful poems public. He feels that this is his selfishness and should not be disturbed by outside comments.
In order to maintain inner peace and freedom and avoid the interference and bondage of the complicated world, he listened to his real thoughts and insisted on not using communication tools, even if there was a bus failure, he needed support; Insist on not using the computer, even if the paper poem is bitten by Marvin (bulldog); Stick to your inner thoughts, not influenced by others' will, and still put Marvin outside the bar.
No matter how the world changes, Patterson always wants to stick to his simple inner thoughts, as clear as his poems.
And his wife Laura is full of enthusiasm and colorful dreams, which is in sharp contrast with Patterson. She likes to use various distinctive ways, such as cupcakes, black and white graffiti, guitar and music, to satisfy her ever-changing and erratic desires.
She firmly believes that her dream will eventually come true and be affirmed, but her passionate dream may be fleeting at any time. At the same time, she sincerely appreciates that Paterson's poems should belong to the whole world like her dream.
There is no doubt that Patterson and Laura belong to each other, but they are both free in their dreams. It is because of their mutual respect and way of getting along that they can keep their inner peace and stick to their dream of freedom.
Only a small bed for two people, a simple meal a day and the income of bus drivers can feel that the Paterson family is not pursuing material life, but their rich spiritual world makes up for the lack of material life.
Everywhere in the film, people feel the deep love between Patterson and Laura. Different sleeping positions every day have a wonderful sense of happiness. Laura, who is awakened by Patterson's kiss every day, is so ordinary but wonderful to listen to Patterson telling her dreams.
Patterson wakes up every day satisfied with his beautiful wife Laura, who sleeps beside him and appreciates her work. Laura is also very satisfied with Patterson, who listened to her dream story and never played.
Patterson was content to listen to passengers chatting and her mouth turned up, while Laura was content to watch a movie after the cupcake sale.
Patterson is satisfied with writing poems under the waterfall every day, while Laura is satisfied with her artistic dream of writing, designing and playing at home every day.
Life is not rich, and they have not made more efforts and demands for it. Laura thinks Patterson is an excellent bus driver. Patterson does not complain that Laura is an incompetent housewife, but thanks her for her work.
They are immersed in their own spiritual worlds, but they can deeply touch each other. They maintain mutual appreciation, mutual respect, mutual exchange of inner life, care for each other's dreams and never deny them.
When Laura told Patterson that she wanted twins, it became Patterson's wish. Because after that, he paid more attention to twins and saw six pairs of twins in five days, which may be designed by the author deliberately exaggerating Patterson's desire.
When Laura saw that Patterson's notebook full of poems was chewed by Marvin (Bulldog), her heart was broken. She said sorry to Patterson, just as her dream was shredded.
The most perfect love in the world is that I am there when you need me and I am there when you don't need me.
The climax of the film appeared in the last 20 minutes. Before this 20 minutes, the unfriendly relationship between Patterson and Marvin also laid a deep foundation for the climax. When Patterson and Laura are close, Marvin's unfriendly attitude, the different directions when walking, and the pranks in the mailbox can all show that they are not close, which is also the humor of the whole play.
The film finally settled on the sentence: "Sometimes blank pages represent more possibilities", which endowed the film with profound connotation and made Patterson regain his confidence in writing poetry.
This is a very interesting and loving movie, and everyone feels differently. What I feel more is the friendly way of the two protagonists, which is worth learning from us now. Only with enough respect can there be enough harmony.