A young woman (Jessie Buckley) is having second thoughts about her new boyfriend Jake (Jesse Plemons) in. Hopelessly convoluted in comparison to Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind, this is one I’d suggest you skip unless you’re both seriously wide awake and have the requisite patience to go where it takes you. Im Thinking of Ending Things by Philip Martin Septemat 1:45 a.m. In either case, neither is a toll-free ride and whilst the performances of the four principals is beyond reproach, the vessel they find themselves in, sadly runs aground on borderline smugness.Īrresting and intriguing up until the abandonment of Jordan Peele’s Get-Out setup, I’m Thinking of Ending Things’ becomes a long drive into vagueness, only matched by its 2 hours plus running time.
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Deliberately sending out his characters out across cracked eggshells, it’s clear that they’ve have been primed with suspicion, just not any clarity as to their purpose.įrom its self-consciously overly-erudite dialogue to its meandering plotline, Kaufman’s latest is either a career-high point or an overly taxing journey, depending on your point of view. Hiding both the real intentions of his characters – and the plot itself – his adaptation of I’m Thinking of Ending Things becomes a cracked mirror of jarring puzzle pieces, where, by its end, it can be pretty much anything you want it to be. This is Charlie Kaufman of Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind, not Wes Craven, and having arranged everything neatly to lead to just such a genre assumption, he’s now going to play with your food before you eat it.ĭeliberately loading each sentence with as much portent as they will take, Kaufman instead pulls a series of From Dusk till Dawn switcheroos. Teasing you with the idea that they will break under the childish proddings of Toni Collette and David Thewlis as Jake’s demented parents, Kaufman teases you with a tale about the-boyfriend-from-hell who has shepherded his date to his cannibalistic family – but no. From Jessie Buckley’s opening inner monologue of Jake’s failings as a boyfriend to his continual badgering her to entertain him with her latest poem, it’s clear this is a film about grossly internalised characters. Shot in a square-like aspect ratio, everything about the film feels cramped from the offset.
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Based on Ian Reid’s book, Being John Malkovich writer-director Charlie Kaufman’s latest movie is another cerebrally-charged, deep dive into existential angst.
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