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Movie im thinking of ending things12/7/2023 ![]() ![]() When asked what minute details he tuned deeper into on a second viewing, Reid, who serves as a co-producer on the movie, said, “One thing that I maybe resonated more with in general was the acting, the performances. (Kaufman breaks down many such easter eggs in IndieWire’s recently published explainer piece.) “I’m Thinking of Ending Things” the movie is packed with easter eggs that encourage a revisit, and its placement on Netflix will make it easier for keen viewers to pause and rewind. And I’m just curious how people will interpret the end,” Reid said. ![]() It’s ambiguous in in a different way that the book, is ambiguous to a certain degree. Reid is loath to offer up his interpretation of the movie’s end, instead deferring to viewers and how they might read the conclusion. The novel, while blatantly marketed as a thriller, is more oozing, dizzying dread than outright horror. I can see why some people read it that way,” he said. I didn’t write it as a psychological thriller, which is a very particular kind of book some type of events lead to a resolution. “With the ending of the book, I’ve never really thought of it as a twist ending. While at the end of the novel, the protagonist ends up killing himself, and effectively killing all the personalities he’s spun inside his head, Kaufman’s film flies into a far more surreal reverie that draws everything we have hitherto seen into more troubling question, but also into not-quite-sharp focus. Both the film and the movie share the same grand design: the events of the story are a fabricated, fictional universe the protagonist, a failed man preparing to “end things,” lives inside and has created as a coping mechanism In the movie, that world is built largely from the media Jake has consumed: A speech in the film’s final scene comes from the movie “A Beautiful Mind,” a long monologue from Buckley’s character about John Cassavetes’ “A Woman Under the Influence” is really a word-for-word Pauline Kael review, and so on. ![]() “It essentially touches on the same theme in such a different way,” said Reid. (See his spin on Susan Orlean’s nonfiction “The Orchid Thief,” “Adaptation.”) When Charlie Kaufman knocks, and wants to adapt your book, know that it’s going to look very different on the side. The Best Thrillers Streaming on Netflix in November, from ‘Fair Play’ to ‘Emily the Criminal’ĭespite Kaufman’s liberties in the adaptation, Reid handed his book over to the director/writer with complete trust. At the farmhouse, Buckley’s character’s grasp on reality comes untethered as time elapses, dilates, and ultimately collapses over the course of a very awkward dinner. While Kaufman’s novel deviates widely from Reid’s novel, the basic premise remains the same: A woman named Lucy (or is it Lucia? Louisa?), played by Jessie Buckley, is on a road trip with her new boyfriend Jake (Jesse Plemons) to meet his parents (Toni Collette and David Thewlis), whose isolated farmhouse is at the other end of a hastening blizzard. Iain Reid‘s page-turning novel from 2016, which provides the template for Kaufman’s film, is equally elliptical, and shimmies between many genres at once, including philosophical horror and existential absurdity. It’s a tough movie to spell out, as it’s mostly internal and unfolds inside the characters’ heads, even as their environments grow to be an extension of them. While this story contains big spoilers for Charlie Kaufman‘s movie “I’m Thinking of Ending Things,” it might not matter.
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