![]() ![]() And it absolutely is, but it is exactly that confusion that makes it so wonderful. The visuals also don’t really help you understand things and the overall conclusion that could be drawn, superficially at least, is that the movie is confusing. It’s not easy to watch you have to follow the narrative shifts, the temporal jumps and the sudden, ex machina metamorphoses that happen throughout the movie. As for the movie itself, the biggest plus of I’m Thinking of Ending Things is that it is one of the most mesmerizing and captivating movies I’ve seen in recent years. Yours truly is also very fond of David Thewlis, personally, so it was a true delight seeing him in the movie. From younger to older, Collette and Thewlis gave us a brilliant insight into the dynamics of Jake’s family, from both a historical, present and future perspective. Jake’s parents, in different periods of their lives, were played by Toni Collette and David Thewlis, both excellent actors who have once again shown that they can portray practically any type of character. Buckley was, for a good while, portrayed as the protagonist of the movie and it seemed that she was the focus of the movie Buckley’s performance was more than satisfactory and she managed to find her way around the beautiful chaos of the movie’s premise. The role of the Young Woman, portrayed as Jake’s girlfriend, was brilliantly played by Jessie Buckley, an Irish actress, who replaced Brie Larson in the role Larson was initially cast but dropped out before filming began. ![]() Plemons managed to put up a very convincing performance, showing different aspects and traits of his character. ![]() Although a typical secondary character, Jesse Plemons ( Fargo, Black Mirror, Judas and the Black Messiah) was a perfect fit for the character of Jake. As far as the actors are concerned, Kaufman did a great job with the casting. All of the technical elements fit so well together – from the foggy atmosphere, via the surrealistically morphing actors, to the production design – and that is what gave I’m Thinking of Ending Things its mesmerizing charm, a charm that completely draws you in and “forces” you to watch it from start to finish. Kaufman had a vision on how to make this movie, and that was quite obvious from the beginning, and in the end, we can say that he fully succeeded. ![]() A lot of this was achieved through various directorial techniques, with the make-up department also playing a huge role in the final aesthetics of this movie. The movie constantly plays with reality, using both time and space to create a very relativistic effect for the viewer, where everything seems both real and surreal. Kaufman’s writing experience was clearly visible in this movie, as he managed to write a screenplay that was both confusing and compelling, which is, if you look at the overall structure of the movie, exactly how it had to be executed. Charlie Kaufman is a well-known name in American indie cinema, known for his work on Being John Malkovich, the award-winning movie Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (on the latter three, he served as producer and writer), as well as Anomalisa, his first major directorial work before this movie. The screenplay was written by Charlie Kaufman, who also directed the movie. The movie is an adaptation of the novel of the same name, written by Canadian writer Iain Reid. ![]()
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