Diandra Reviews It All- I'm Thinking of Ending Things Confronts Break-ups

When I break up with a guy, I do it Charlie Kaufman style. Yes, I do ballet in a gymnasium while in the middle of a snowstorm. Of course, I laughingly tell his sick mother, over Christmas dinner, how he called me an asshole, and, yes, I recite poetry, in my head, of how he is a good, boring guy, that I should leave, as he drives me down an empty road that seems eerily beneficial for a serial killer. Yup! Premiering September 4, Netflix has found my dating life in Charlie Kaufman’s I’m Thinking of Ending Things.

I should tell you that this movie gets WEIRD! For its first twenty minutes, you think it is a quiet, road trip film with a couple driving in a snowstorm, discussing old poets, while the girlfriend, a magnetic Jessie Buckley as The Young Woman, contemplates ending her relationship after she will meet her boyfriend’s parents for the first time. (Slick Move!) Buckley is fantastically nuanced in her performance. She is warm, yet prickly! Fiery and smart, but foolish and confused! Wild, fun, and understanding, but frustrated and cold! She is a full-fledged human being and our narrator, which is why her perspective and bond with boyfriend Jake (Jesse Plemons) is so endearing. We are watching a woman with so much to offer wonder if she is waisting her time with a guy, who is nice, but doesn’t seem to offer as much as to her.

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Supportive: Yes! Loving: Yes! Kind: Yes! Attentive: Yes! And…….? At times, men get frustrated with understanding what women want. “I thought you said you wanted a good, chivalrous guy,” is their common quote, of which who wouldn’t want to be treated well? The question is can we have adventures with your? Will our lives together be exciting and refreshingly fun? These are questions is poetically mulling over, in her mind, and roping in the audience into her dilemma; she truly is dating a great, boring man. gives such a sweet, firmness to ; he may not be “the leader” or “man” she wants him to be, but he is no pushover and his caring nature wins over the audience. The problem is that you see why there are downsides to dating him.

The mundanes of many scenes, hued with grays and greens, is absolutely enthralling because it introduces the film as the character piece that it is. You are observing people that love each other, but are unsure if they want to get rid of each other, which sounds like family to me, especially in eery characters like Toni Collette as The Mother and David Thewlis as The Father. The movie tricks you into believing it is not the most uneventful beyond a character shimmying in his or her chair. Kaufman brilliantly plays with silence and making the film have an insular, creepiness that would make even a cricket watch this movie and say, “Am I being too loud? I feel like I’m being too loud?” You watch the leading couple’s habits and twitches like one would a “nuclear family” exhibition, but then, again, things gets so strange that even The Matrix would ask, “Is this real?”

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I’m Thinking of Ending Things is not jut a movie that makes you think as much as a movie that makes you think about what it thinks. As you get deeper into this film, especially towards the end, things go from intriguingly banal and lightly strange to a “What the hell just happened? I don’t get it, but I kind of do! Let me rewatch that!” Frankly, I was not expecting how twisted it became. I say this because some will “love” the weird twists while others will think it was too weird and unnecessary, which will, obviously, cut them off from something that is true about this film: It is one the best I have seen to encompass how casual and routine love can get.

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