In downtown Manhattan, a twenty-something boy ('Chris Parker')whose Father is not around and whose Mother is institutionalized, is a big Charlie Parker fan. He almost subconsciously searches for more meaning in his life and meets a few characters along the way.
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Plot Synopsis:
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Film school dropout jim jarmusch's 1st Film widely ignored in the US but noticed in the Europe. a completely new independent style of film making unlike other American films . A youth in his 20's ,Aloysius Parker(played by Christopher Parker),unemployed, lazy searching for answers for "meaning of life". particularly interested in nothing . A broken family background of missing dad, institutionalized mother and a broken relationship with his girlfriend. Turns to be philosophical ,roams around dirty & less crowded urban New york city searching for answers about life and meets very eccentric people . He first visit's his mother in the institution, a shady, dusty, unsettling place ,then as he drifts around the city he meets a war veteran who sometimes thinks he's still at war ,then at night he meets a saxophone player who plays uninteresting musical notes ,then a unwelcoming lunatic latin girl ,then at a theatre he meets a popcorn girl who is Ensnared about Eskimos and at the same place he meets a severe jazz fan. Finally he accidentally encounters a young lady with a Ford mustang (vintage) which he steals away at that very instance and sells the stolen car at the very night. at dawn he packs his suitcase with passport and cloths ,decides to go away and boards a ship to depart from new york leaving his girl behind.

He starts to think of himself ,his life .(realizes that he is a youth with no bank balance, no insurance, no relations, no home ,no house,no job,no skill and nothing) ....... just drifting in the wind from place to place like a gypsy... aimlessly ! still searching for answers ...... we see we going away from new york. end

Jean-Michel Basquiat was present while they were shooting the scenes in the apartment, sleeping on the floor in a sleeping bag.
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The book Allie gives Leila is "Maldoror and Poems" by Lautreamont (Penguin Classics 1978), one of the earliest surrealist stories.
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The film's title is taken from a lyric in the song "My Boyfriend's Back", by The Angels; "If I were you, I'd take a permanent vacation". This part of the song minus the film's title can be heard on the radio of the car Allie is selling.
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This film is featured on second disc of the Stranger Than Paradise (1984) DVD released in 2007 by the Criterion Collection.
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The final shot of the film is an homage to the final shot of Chantal Akerman's News From Home (1976)
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The Doppler Effect mentioned by the man in the lobby ('Frank Faison'), is the change in a sound (frequency and wavelength) noticed by an observer as a sound source moves relative to the observer.
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When Allie reads to Leila from the book, he does not read continuously but instead takes snippets from the text, skipping sentences as he does.
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When Leila is sitting at the window, the number and position of items on the windowsill change.
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The position of Leila's legs on the radiator changes between shots as she talks to Allie.
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The reflection of Leila sitting in the chair shows the the back of the chair near to the mirror, when all other shots have it the other side of Leila.
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Allie stands in the middle of the room to talk to Leila, but the close shot shows his back closer to the wall.
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The bed coverings are rearranged between shots in the apartment.
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There are fittings on the ship's railing visible in the rear shot but not in the front shot of Allie.
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The level of beer in the Leila's glass changes between shots.
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