[LMS] Coffee and cigarettes

Coffee and cigarettes, by Jim Jarmusch (USA 2003)

If one thinks he can withstand getting a little bored, this is a beautiful movie to see: a dozen or so sketches in each of which two or three characters gather around a table and talk among coffee (sometimes substituted by tea) and cigarettes.

The center of the movie are communication problems. People cannot find anything to say to each other, often because they do not share any interests; one can clearly perceive, in some of the sketches, the intense desire of the characters to limit the time they spend together and cut all the possible developments of their conversation.

This happens to me as well; sometimes a criterion used to establish the validity of a book or a movie is just this: see whether the situations that are described have happened in the lives of the readers or viewers.
In this case we should add one detail: situations as these, if they happen, could be considered as irrelevant because they are considered both "to be avoided" and "easy to avoid".

My personal judgment is that it is interesting seeing these things in the fiction of a movie.

Another small note is the following: in order to find something to say to each other, the characters recur to some synthesis of reality; not descriptions, but general considerations that sometimes include the expression of a judgment and in any case a complex activity of the mind that tends to get rid of details both for the difficulty of keeping them in focus and also to free up from a sense of discomfort that details sometimes can give (see for example the Tesla coil episode)

Ok, in case it comes your way, you can spend your time with this movie.