Im thinking of ending things script8/18/2023 She also spies a collection of film reviews by Pauline Kael and one The drive up as her own latest composition. Italicized by the fact that at one point a television is shown playing an oldįinds there a book of poetry which includes the very work that she’d recited on The finale of “2001: A Space Odyssey,” and the theme of time shifting is In her younger self the woman is imperious,ĭemanding her guest help with the laundry then she’ll be bedridden and near Spry and dark-haired, at others grey, doddering and Alzheimer-ridden. The fact that mom and dad grow older and younger over the course of the Is irritable and nonplussed over his parents’ gushing over him, often getting Where nobody seems to eat a bite before the guest begins clearing the table-Jake Throughout the evening-especially at dinner, High-string and hard of hearing he vacillates between being overly friendlyĪnd abrasive, and boasts a British accent that’s wildly out of place. Finally they go in to meet his parents (Toni Story about the pigs, which died after becoming infected with maggots. She observes a pile of dead lambs among the sheep and Jake tells her a gruesome Version-elsewhere she’ll offer several different accounts, one in particularĬhildhood home, Jake insists on first showing her around the frigid barn, where Met only a few weeks back at a trivia contest (at least in one She’s the person who’s thinking about ending things with Jake, whom she’d Or poet, and at one point a gerontologist). Profession (at one moment she’s identified as a biologist, at another a painter Throughout the film (it’s usually, but not always, Lucy) as also does her “young woman” (as she’s identified in the closing credits) whose name changes If somewhat insistent fellow who might be a teacher, given his occasional The driver is Jake (Jesse Plemons), a talkative, Long drive through a snowstorm to a remote farmhouse. Mistake, though at over two hours the film will tax your patience as well as Them, the title might become something of a suggestion-“I’m Thinking of Ending It’s a good thing the service apparentlyĬount as viewings any call-ups that last for only a few minutes, but one canĮasily imagine a lot of impulse viewers bewildered after five or ten minutes Netflix subscribers who might tune in to it nonchalantly. Will fascinate-though perhaps also infuriate-admirers of Reid’s work. Skeleton of Reid’s book, Kaufman has made it his puzzle as much as the Into the story of a struggle to write a screenplay rather than an adaptation inĪny real sense-but it is substantial, reworking the material into somethingĮxpressive of his own obsessions: while preserving to a great extent the Operation isn’t as radical this time around-Kaufman doesn’t turn the original Iain Reid’s novel more as a springboard for his own fancies rather than a Orchid Thief,” screenwriter Charlie Kaufman-who also directs here-has employed Jonze’s 2002 “Adaptation,” ostensibly a film version of Susan Orlean’s “The Wodin, Ryan Steele and Unity Phelan Distributor: Anthony Bregman, Charlie Kaufman, Robert Salerno and Stefanie Azpiazu Director:Ĭharlie Kaufman Screenplay: Charlie Kaufmanīuckley, Toni Collette, David Thewlis, Gay Boyd, Hadley Robinson, Gus Birney,Ībby Quinn, Colby Minifio, Anthony Grasso, Teddy Coluca, Jason Ralph, Oliver
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