I saw Night On Earth in the Greek streaming platform cinobo after many years that I hadn't seen the movie and I can say that I envy Jim for his minimalism. Truth is that I would never try to make something so standard yet solid and funny. The thing with Jim's art is that you think after the movie, "Man that was extremely minimal". And the next thought is, "But no matter how many years I would try it I could never make it as brilliantly as he did it". Night On Earth is so simple that you think that he shot and wrote it in a weekend. And yet there is something underneath, a brilliant comment for the human species that we see it in his most humble and typical moments that steals your breath away. Jim's characters have nothing extreme and weird, yet they are incredibly idiosyncratic. There is that immense coolness that is coming from the screen straight at you that you cannot possibly deny. The more you get into the movie, the more you understand that if the world was manufactured by Jim Jarmusch it would be a heavenly place, a living circus.
And the more I think about it the more I understand that in order to make so "down-tempo" cinema you must be a person who would very easily make films with a thousand explosions. You choose to make that type of cinema because that is what comes from your heart. And that is the greatest charm of Jim's art. That his movies come from inside of him. The characters have an intimacy with the audience that you cannot find anywhere else. You can touch those people that you see there on the screen. And that is a heavenly attribute. A gift that very few filmmakers have. Making such personal movies means that you are an artist of pure and authentic character and that is definitely Jim. One of the greatest voices in American cinema.
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