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"I’m Thinking of Ending Things"

- "I liked the film's dreamlike insanity and symbolism,..."

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- "Kaufman once again proves he's a master of the subconscious and all of its abstract intricacies."

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and the title for multiple reasons.

⚠️ Haven't watched this btw but I liked these 2 reviews - that are in full below

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Metin gave it ★★★½
Watched 05 Sep 2020

"Kaufman is a very original, unconventional filmmaker, which is admirable. I'd describe I'm Thinking of Ending Things as what would be born if Lynch and Fellini would get hammered in a late night bar and create a script together. A fascinating film with plenty of poetic, often dark-toned food for thought, but it also has muddled moments of intellectual rambling.
I liked the film's dreamlike insanity and symbolism, but it did leave me somewhat unsatisfied in the end."

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review by gal pacino ★★★★½ 58

while iain reid's novel extracts horror from blood and dread, charlie kaufman's interpretation extracts it from existentialism, from the unavoidability of aging, from the unease of being perceived, from the eeriness permeating the claustrophobic atmosphere. they both tell the same story in completely different ways, which is exactly what a book-to-film adaptation should aim to do.

in the book, there's a fascinating passage about how humans need allegory and metaphor in order to more comprehensively understand the world around us. this is the most central idea of the film, i think: our tendency to tell ourselves stories in order to live (a personal fav sub-genre of mine, thank you joan didion). especially as it seems to function as an unexpected reckoning of film history, with lengthy homages to golden-age musicals and parodies of contemporary cheesy studio dramas -- a character even directly quotes pauline kael's controversial review of A Woman Under the Influence during a conversation about cassavetes (🥰).

here, kaufman once again proves he's a master of the subconscious and all of its abstract intricacies. "you can't fake a thought." our thoughts silently exhibit us at our most authentic, most private, most vulnerable. the only other people who have access to our psyches are generally our partners, and even they can't see it all. we can choose to find either terror or comfort in that. or, we can sequester ourselves by idealizing strangers so we don't have to form real connections and risk heartbreak! but i suppose that's just choosing terror.

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