![]() The fact that the whole piece has an air of uncertainty about it and that it obviously takes place in the character's imagination was very reminiscent of how I would stay up at night going through hundreds of scenarii about what could have been. This movie struck many chords as you can expect. I made 2 serious attempts on my life and I'm definitely a survivor, it took a long time to accept myself as such. ![]() ITOET was extremely influential for me because I've suffered from depression (dysthimia), bouts of MDD, and social anxiety disorder my whole life, and developped an avoidant personality disorder as a result of both of those things. ![]() Thank you for the kind word! I'm a couple of days late so I figured I'd reply to you directly. It is, in my opinion, one of the most nuanced, most brutally honest depictions of the human condition in cinema. It’s bleak, despondent outlook on life serves to highlight the tragedy that is a wasted life. It is also, at the same time, a vehicle for Charlie Kaufman’s own homebrewed philosophies about human nature and how something as innocuous as a Robert Zemeckis film can tinker with human perception in major ways. I’m Thinking of Ending Things is a story about a man who has let his insecurities rule him and drive him to a life of endless maladaptive daydreaming to cope with his self-hatred. It looks and feels like a dream whereas the scenes with the janitor in them look jarringly realistic, with less blurry or baroque backgrounds. The dreamscape is imbued with a hauntingly beautiful aesthetic and a lush color palette. The young woman says something morbid during a car journey and the movie abruptly cuts to the end of the car journey. The young woman forgets a crucial detail during a family dinner and the camera suddenly zooms out and captures her, deep in thought and isolated, the family members obscured by a wall. Occasionally, streaks of misanthropy dominate our protagonist’s thoughts before the young woman berates him and shames him back into self-loathing in our moments of angst, we blame the world and everything around us for our miserable existence.Īnother interesting thing about this movie is that the editing of the movie itself mimics human behaviour and emotion. And then there are the unfiltered fantasies of social validation from an external, imaginary figure that you indulge in shamelessly, abruptly ending only when the self-loathing manages to creep back into your mind. Inane, banal conversations erupt into heated ideological debates with no warning. Characters make confident assertions and then vehemently question themselves less than a second later. Unremarkable analogue spaces like the interior of a car or an icecream bar suddenly seem hostile, their inhabitants staring, judging and jeering at you. To anyone who has struggled with self-hatred, the oppressive, turbulent dreamscape within which the movie takes place and certain aspects of the relationship dynamic between Jake and our nebulous narrator will seem strangely familiar. ![]() ![]() It is an incisive character study disguised as a relationship drama, a tragic tale of human isolation and alienation hiding within the trappings of a psychological thriller. In I’m Thinking of Ending Things, Kaufman explores the deepest, darkest recesses of the human psyche. ![]()
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