Paterson
by Eric Hillis
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In its poetry, paintings, songs
and prose, America loves to
celebrate the common man.
Not so much in its cinema. In
its movies, America generally
prefers its heroes to be superhuman. While Springsteen,
Whitman and Hopper can
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pay tribute to the unassuming masses who go about their
daily, undramatic lives, filmmakers in the US are reticent
to give us portrayals of such
characters, perhaps in the misguided belief that mundanity
equates to mediocrity.
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