![]() ![]() And trust me, every single reference sent me scrambling and clawing me through the deeper recesses of Google to keep up with them.įor example, the young woman, from rote, recites her latest poetic work “Bonedog” to Jake. These two are really difficult to keep track of. They flit from Tolstoy, to Guy Debord, Anna Kavan, Mussolini’s train, philosophers, artists, poets, movies. The first 20 or 30 minutes are just the two of them firing back, discussing philosophical entrees into art, poetry, physics, really anything. So the two hop in the car and take the trip out to the farm town where his parents live to make the meet and greet happen. ![]() I think her official title in the cast sheet is eerily just “Young Woman”) to take her to meet his parents. And seven weeks later, Jake feels good enough about his girlfriend (who is unnamed… or named so many things its nigh on impossible to pin her down. Because I knew I was going to need as much help as I could deciphering this thing. The moment I finished the movie, I jumped to Libbie, and grabbed a copy of the book and sped read that sucker as fast as I could. Again, watch it here, then come on back to discuss it with us. Do not continue one if you haven’t seen this masterpiece yet. OK, from here on out there will be epic spoilers from beginning to end. So let’s get to it, because we have miles to go before we sleep, miles to go before we sleep! Beware Spoilers Here On Out!! That was über to a level I haven’t seen in a very, very, very, long time. Welcome back time traveler – YES! What an ending!!! Holy midgets and macaroni my friend. I’ll be back to discuss the full movie once I’ve finished it. Is her name Lucy? Louisa? Lucia? Is she a poet? Is she an artist? A physicist? WHAT IS GOING ON? And honestly, I still don’t know where Kaufman is going with this film version of the book. Here she is meeting his parents, but she wants to not only end the relationship, but maybe also her life? And yet, everything is shifting. And I also loved him in Game Night as well.) to visit his parents. On a trip with her new boyfriend (Jesse Plemons – you know Black Mirror’s episode USS Callister? So good. (Which I read a few weeks ago in expectation of the movies arrival, but the movie has a few unexpected twists I didn’t see coming from the novel format.) It begins as a movie about a woman (played by Jessie Buckley, who you know from Taboo, and she was also brilliant in Chernobyl too.) with a feeling of ending things. The film I’m Thinking of Ending Things is based on the novel by the same name, written by Iain Reid. It’s like a philosopher’s vantage of existentialism but in cinematic celluloid format. It’s so much more important to reach out with your emotions and press through through the movie. His style and manipulations of reality are so distinct, and so irregular Kaufman has his own style, his own genre even. He constantly plays with, toys with, the idea of reality in his films, like a cat plays with a ball of string. (You know, the guy that brought us Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind?) Kaufman has helmed the director’s chair or written some really extraordinary films. (I mean, of what I’ve seen of it so far.) Or maybe the house bits, and the deep questions of Amulet? The movie is Charlie Kaufman’s latest film, and one I’ve been waiting for – for a very long time. If you’ve watched and enjoyed the movie She Dies Tomorrow (which was utter epicness) you will really enjoy this. ![]()
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