He might be thinking of ending his life.ģ) ‘Lucy,’ a woman who inspired Wordsworth to write five beautiful poems. He might be thinking of end everything from his life he ever desired. So, today Jake might be thinking to end these imaginations of her. She also personified the desired self of Jake. I’m thinking of how highly symbolical the movie is:ġ) It simply begins with ‘ ending things.’ The young girl to whom Jake met many years ago at a trivia night but couldn’t approach her, since then he is imaging about her always. It’s clear that he is an old self of Jake, but the road trip is his imagination, or dream, or some past incident that gets clear eventually. Interestingly we are seeing an old man working as a janitor at some school. It seems there are two different people with a different set of minds, one is a painter, poet, physicist, cinema critic, and another one was just awarded “ You there, you work very hard, you’re not very bright, but we are impressed you tried anyway” but we see two different selves of Jake, one is who he is right now, the disappointed one, another is who he always wanted to be. But actually, it’s we who are passing through the frigid projection of his fragmented memories, figments of imagination, feelings of loneliness, lost, which leaves us chopped and frozen. On the surface, a woman with her boyfriend goes on a car trip to meet his parents on a farmhouse passing through a snowstorm. I’m thinking how ingeniously Kaufman has presented his concepts about time, love, hope, life, age, loneliness, vulnerability, uncertainty in an artistic way. “ Be careful out there, the roads are treacherous,” a dialogue of the film applies to you too if you decide to watch it. A new movie by the brilliant writer-director Charlie Kaufman ‘I’m Thinking of Ending Things’ is a surreal, multi-layered jumble of what is and who is real or imaginary. There were two pigs, another one was being eaten alive by his lonely life, unreceived love, unfulfilled hopes. Eventually, he found that one pig was being eaten alive by maggots. Here, he recounts a story that his father, caretaker of their livestock, forgot to take care of his pigs for days. Jake took the young girl direct to the barn. I am thinking of another scene where the car stops at the farmhouse. His father ignored Jake almost the whole evening. I’m thinking of the scene when the young girl was introduced to Jake’s parents. Buckle up for this one and make sure you’ve stocked up on your meds."Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged, life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.” -Virginia Woolf But I’m Thinking of Ending Things is one of the most daringly unexpected films of the year, a sinewy, unsettling psychological horror, saturated with a squirming dream logic that tips over into the domain of nightmares. This is not cinema that leaves you feeling good about things. But the authenticity of Buckley’s performance, which seems all the more remarkable when you think back over it than it does when you are watching her, gives the character a solidity, while the other characters drift around her like ghosts. Perhaps describing her as the central role is misleading – there’s a friable, mercurial quality to the character that seems to repeatedly crumble and re-form, like a sand sculpture. She is introduced as Lucy, but slips into other names (and other clothes and other voices) as the film weaves onwards. But she’s fully miraculous in the central role of a young woman who has agreed to meet her boyfriend’s parents (a frazzled Toni Collette and David Thewlis) on their isolated farm, even as the snow begins to fall and the angst sets in and she is “thinking of ending things”. We already knew that Jessie Buckley is something special. This is not cinema that leaves you feeling good about things
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