![]() All of his films, from his debut Being John Malkovich to I'm Thinking of Ending Things, are about the impossibility of a self-absorbed person to understand anyone else, which often manifests as a writer or other creative person struggling to understand his characters, which makes him doubt and loathe himself. Kaufman does not do straight adaptations when he does them, he makes them his own, inserting his own thematic ideas and meta-commentary on the story and plot events. The film is an adaptation of a 2016 psychological thriller novel by author Iain Reid that's faithful, in its way, to the source material. But before we get into what happened and what it means, we need to contextualize the movie in Kaufman's body of work. It's disorienting and dazzling, and sure to inspire many conversations about what it all means. And the 2001: A Space Odyssey-esque ending doesn't explain all the mysterious occurrences, but rather doubles down and wraps things up in even more abstract fashion than the rest of the movie. ![]() ![]() There are inconsistencies, like how the main character's ( Jessie Buckley) name keeps changing (she's identified in the credits as "Young Woman"). Strange things happen that go unremarked upon. It doesn't have a cause-and-effect plot, and the story moves according to dream logic. ![]() I'm Thinking of Ending Things, Netflix's haunting and unclassifiable art film from writer-director Charlie Kaufman, is not a movie that tells you exactly what it's about. ![]()
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