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- What Is 'I'm Thinking of Ending Things' About?
- What's Going on in Jake’s Mind Throughout 'I'm Thinking of Ending Things'?
- Is Lucy Real in 'I'm Thinking of Ending Things'?
- 'I'm Thinking of Ending Things' Alludes to Other Media
- How Does 'I'm Thinking About Ending Things' Reference 'A Beautiful Mind'?
I’m Thinking of Ending Things follows the young man Jake (Jesse Plemons) and his girlfriend Lucy (Jessie Buckley) as they take a road trip to see his parents over Thanksgiving. Their conversations begin to feel morbid when Lucy recites a disturbing poem about her sense of depression. The evening gets even more bizarre when Jake’s mother (Toni Colle...
While I'm Thinking of Ending Thingsis told from Lucy's perspective, she is simply a Tyler Durden-esque extension of Jake. As Jake reveals in his conversation with his parents, he considered approaching a girl at a trivia night event and asking her out. While the real Jake never actually approached this young woman, the film is an extension of a fan...
While Reid’s novel makes it explicitly clear that “Lucy” is not real, Kaufman made the gamble of giving her agency. In an interview with Indiewire, Kaufman revealed that “she is a device, but I wanted her to be able to separate herself from that.” I’m Thinking of Ending Things questions whether a fantasy can exist in its own right, as Jake has imag...
The literary, musical, and cinematic allusions in I’m Thinking of Ending Things can be explained by a scene in Jake’s bedroom; when he’s showing his childhood room to his girlfriend, we catch a collection of movies, poems, stories, and books, including Pauline Kael’s 1996 essay collectionFor Keeps: 30 Years at the Movies. Lucy begins repeating some...
The humorous cut to credits after an older Jake stands before the crowd and accepts a Nobel Peace Prize is a replication of the ending scene of A Beautiful Mind with John Nash (Russell Crowe). Similar to A Beautiful Mind, both Jake and the audience members are wearing not very convincing old-age makeup effects. A Beautiful Mind is often criticized ...
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Dec 30, 2018 · The scientist, the singer, the comic book writer... and others who died in the past 12 months. Take a look at some of the famous faces no longer with us at the end of 2018.
I'm Thinking of Ending Things (stylized as i'm thinking of ending things) is a 2020 American surrealist psychological thriller [1] film written and directed by Charlie Kaufman. It is an adaptation of the 2016 novel of the same name by Iain Reid.
