Lucy sees them in their 50s, their 30s, and their 80s, but things really get weird when she and Jake leave the middle-of-nowhere farmhouse for the return trip home. Jake’s parents seem to change in age over the course of the evening, for example.
Over the course of the day-trip, Lucy begins to experience reality in a more and more fractured and unsettling way. Lucy is traveling with Jake, her new boyfriend of six or eight weeks – she can’t seem to remember just how long it’s been – to meet his parents for the first time and to have dinner with them.
#IM THINKING OF ENDING THINGS STILLS MOVIE#
The film – loosely based on Iain Reid’s 2016 debut novel – ostensibly tells the story of a young woman named, well, we never really know, hence the use of the word “ostensibly.” She’s listed in the credits as “Young Woman,” but the character is referred to throughout the movie by several names, including Lucy – that’s what I’ll call her for the purposes of this review – Louisa, and Lucia. Since I’m not that clever, you’ll have to settle for a more standard review in which I praise Kaufman’s unique vision while also wrestling with a few of the picture’s shortcomings.
If I were a more clever writer, I might invent a Kaufmanesque conversation between the two filmmakers, in which Aronofsky calls to praise Kaufman’s idiosyncratic and disturbing new work of art. Not since Darren Aronofsky’s mother! in 2017 has a movie so successfully and hauntingly evoked an oneiric state as Charlie Kaufman’s fever dream vision I’m Thinking of Ending Things.
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