Coffee and Cigarettes
Even the most “moviegenic” ritual in the world was expelled from the Hollywood blockbusters, the “independent movie” still use it! “Coffee and Cigarettes” – the movie of the most independent and ironic American director Jim Jarmusch –the best confirmation of this fact.
The movie consists of 11 non-connected short stories, where extremely cute and funny characters smoke, drink coffee and converse with each other.
In the short story “Somewhere in California ” Iggy Pop and Tom Waits drink coffee and talk about the healthy life-style. They said that since they had quit smoking cigarettes, the life changed for the better. After long soulful conversations Waits began to smoke. In response to the sad look of Iggy Pop Tom explained imperturbably: “What is there so bad about it? I can smoke one more cigarette. I gave up, man.”
Coffee and cigarettes – is a hazardous combination, but it’s so devilishly nice! Useless, but pleasant whim, which became for Jarmusch a metaphor of unserious disadvantages, little and comic defects of human nature, which are so great stuff to make fun of, drinking a cup of coffee and smoking a cigarette. So, let’s smoke one more cigarette!
