Quick-Thoughts: Jim Jarmusch’s Permanent Vacation (1980)

Jim Jarmusch Marathon Part I of VII

“You know, sometimes I think I should just live fast and die young. And you go in a three-piece white suit, like Charlie Parker.”

An icon complex helps, or more appropriately I should say, distracts slackers from their conditions in the lower class of New York City. Living in a stagnated romance, in a lingering war, in lingering secrets, in a despondent family, in forgotten suicide attempts, by reading the grim; nobody is alone in this but we always feel alone in it despite. Walk it off, dance it off, “drift” it off, slick your hair back, wear a suit, whatever you have to do to keep your composure, boy…

Umm… gotta love DIY vibe movies?

Verdict: B-

Jim Jarmusch Ranked

“Permanent Vacation” is now available to stream on The Criterion Channel and HBO Max.

Published by

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s