Charlie Kaufman played with our emotions. We want to know why. If you watched I'm Thinking of Ending Things on Netflix, then you probably had kind of a wild ride. You go in and out of the lives of different characters, there's some ballet, animation, it's all haywire. But I promise we're getting to that. The brain behind the movie belongs to Kaufman. He adapted the movie from Canadian writer Iain Reid’s 2016 novel. Yet this adaptation was not totally faithful. Still, the central plot remains virtually unchanged. Jake (Jesse Plemons) takes newish girlfriend Lucy (Jesse Buckley) on a snowy drive to meet his parents (Toni Collette and David Thewlis). Lucy, the narrator, has already considered dumping him. As this possibility settles in, the couple endures an awkward dinner, dessert, and then depart for a drive home that culminates with a detour to Jake’s high school. In the meantime, the school’s janitor (Guy Boyd) roams those hallways in a lonely nightly routine. They all eventually cross paths for a surreal climax. [Editor's Note: Spoilers for I'm Thinking of Ending Things after this point...] Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Wednesday, 30 September, 2020