Jim Jarmusch is undeniably a great director and I have to admit I am a Jarmusch-partisan. He does not consciously play with gothic tropes and his films, it can be said, are not gothic. From Permanent Vacation (1980), Stranger Than Paradise (1982), to Down By Law (1986) and Mystery Train (1989), Jarmusch’s style evinces the marvellous and surrealistic qualities of characters that carry on dreaming in elusive and impermanent realities. The melancholic urban lives of outcasts who persist in creating fantasies, always literate- reading Lautreamont (Stranger Than Fiction), (Dead Man-William Blake

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