(Already one reviewer for a major publication has proved to completely miss the boat on the movie’s ultimate meaning.) Kaufman and novelist Reid are playing tricks with points of view and narrative agency the filmmaking, simple only on the surface, is remarkably supple at suggesting the shifts. Kaufman's next movie 'I'm Thinking of Ending Things' will hit Netflix next year, and meanwhile. “I’m Thinking of Ending Things” is a puzzle film, in other words, and like Lynch’s “Mulholland Drive” it does have a solution even if the getting there stands to leave a majority of viewers baffled, bored, or angry. Charlie Kaufman’s Brain-Bending New Movie Made for a ‘Delirious’ Shoot, Says Jesse Plemons. The girlfriend, who has a tart acerbity that anchors the movie and provides a point of reference, is thrown by the little things that keep changing, like the Band-Aid on the father’s head or the parents’ age. Immediately upon arriving at the house, she’s graced with her first of several. The father (David Thewlis, on loan from Mike Leigh’s universe) is sprightly and dense. I’ve never experienced anything where I get I’m thinking of ending things. The plot follows a young woman (Jessie Buckley) who goes on a trip with her boyfriend (Jesse Plemons) to meet his parents (Toni Collette and David Thewlis). Jake’s mother (Toni Collette) is high-strung and neurotic, coddling her baby boy and criticizing him in the same breath. The visit to the parents’ isolated farmhouse only adds to the sense that the entire movie is built on quicksand - that things are not remotely what they appear. Upon arriving, she comes to question everything she thought she knew about him, and herself. Full of misgivings, a young woman travels with her new boyfriend to his parents secluded farm. With Jesse Plemons, Jessie Buckley, Toni Collette, David Thewlis. From left: Jesse Plemons, Jessie Buckley, Toni Collette, David Thewlis, in "I'm Thinking of Ending Things." Mary Cybulski/NETFLIX A nameless young woman (Jessie Buckley) is picked up by her boyfriend of seven weeks, Jake (Jesse Plemons), to go have dinner at his parents’ rural farmhouse. Im Thinking of Ending Things: Directed by Charlie Kaufman.
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