IM THINKING OF ENDING THINGS JESSE MOVIE

These two people aren't on the same wavelength, though one of them clearly wants them, aches for them, to be. For one thing, you know that things are hinky from the jump - Buckley's interior monologue seems strangely stilted, and keeps getting interrupted by Plemons' halting, unwieldy conversational gambits. It's not a puzzle that, once solved, surrenders everything that made it interesting in the first place.

IM THINKING OF ENDING THINGS JESSE MOVIE

This is not, to be clear, a movie that harbors a Big Twist that must be protected at all costs.

I will endeavor to do so here, without spoiling What's Really Going On, by striving to keep things ambiguous, though we might have to settle for vague. That's fine, as far as it goes, but it doesn't begin to convey what sets I'm Thinking of Ending Things apart, or what makes it so recognizably and indelibly a film only Kaufman can or would make. Movie Reviews 'Anomalisa' Is A Charlie Kaufman Movie Featuring Puppets. A young couple who've only recently gotten together (Jessie Buckley and Jesse Plemons) take a long car trip during a snowstorm to have dinner with the guy's parents (Toni Collette and David Thewlis) at their farmhouse. To be fair: This is the kind of movie it is almost impossible to write or talk about without revealing What's Really Going On, unless one sticks to the barest bones of the plot.

There, to my surprise and no small amount of dismay, I found. But as the film wasn't out yet, I tentatively clicked on a few advance reviews. It's that kind of movie, wrapped in a thick shroud of fully intentional ambiguity that always threatens to thin to mere vagueness, and it benefits from the kind of unpacking that grows out of discussion. I'm Thinking of Ending Things premieres on Netflix on Friday, September 4.Īfter finishing writer/director Charlie Kaufman's latest film, which hurls so many things at you as you watch it you find yourself bobbing and weaving just to keep up, I longed to talk it over with other people. Snow Way Out: A couple (Jessie Buckley and Jesse Plemons) takes a long road trip during a snowstorm in I'm Thinking of Ending Things on Netflix.

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