Trivia, things to note:
I'm thinking of ending things was written and directed by Charlie Kaufman who also wrote synechdoche. If you've watched this, you have an idea of what to expect in terms of style and its existential themes.
Main actress Jessie Buckley is actually a talented singer and has trained with Royal Irish Academy of Music.
Toni Collette who came through with the very American accent is actually Australian and is very famous for playing similar roles to the one she played as Jack's mother as she transformed mentally and physically through many scenes.
The author from whose book the film is adapted from is the brother-in-law in law to the president of Iceland. This was actually his debut novel although he'd written a memoir prior to that.
My impressions:
This film is so hard to explain. The exact words would be as Lucy describes her supposed boyfriend who'd just left the car in the blizzard, so I'd say something along the lines of 'It's hard to describe this film, I barely know what I watched . I'm not sure what happened. One minute I was looking at a man and his girlfriend, the next minute I saw his old parents and then they grew old in a few hours together. His dad had alzheimer's and the next minute his dad was giving his wife's stained nightwear to this girlfriend Lucy or Lucia or Amy(no one knows). But soon enough his mother becomes young again and then she becomes old and dies while his dad becomes young.'
Um I think you get it now. This was some high quality mind bend. Did something happen? Yes, a lot of things happened but really, what happened? Is this film like describing a mosquito that bit me 10 years ago? Or... Worse?
There's a lot of dialogue going on. Moments when both Jack and Lucy(let's stick with Lucy) talk about the meaning of life through poems, music and of bodies as they grow old. The question of youth and the visibility that comes with being appealing to look at. Of being inventors of things, not the old, discarded sacks that old people are. Loneliness as a theme is explored and chance. If bad things happen, it has to happen to someone, so why not you? It's the way of life.
It was not the easiest thing to watch. It lasts for 2hrs 14 mins, but just as it happens many times in the film, I find myself thinking of ending things (it) and drifting off, returning back and wondering if I ever was there in the first place. My entire experience can be described with one word 'diffused'.
It's a film that works you psychologically. Interesting, confusing, weird, super weird and then nothing. It's a film that happens to you.
The Baker's impressions :
I’m thinking of ending things is what I imagine having an LCD trip would be like. It was a well put, odd series of sometimes linear-making-sense-events, but it seems there is a bit of time travel in here, so a linear perception of time would be too basic.
I am somewhat pissed at the scene with him collecting the Nobel prize, because it shows she didn’t end things after singing it in our ears throughout the movie and naming the movie after the thought.
The scene with her attending his play, which I initially thought was him winning a Nobel prize, which would make more sense than him being a janitor as is hinted in the movie. But again, making sense might not be the goal of the movie. It is a nice ride though, and I guess it is to be expected from the director Charlie Kaufman who has made a few nice mind-bending movies.
A few trivia about this movie:
Jesse Plemons, who plays Jake resembles both math Damon and Philip Seymour Hoffman. He played the younger version of Damon’s character in All the Pretty Horses (2000) and Hoffman’s son in the movie The master (2012).
Director Charlie Kaufman also directed Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind, Synecdoche, Being John Malkovich, Anomalisa.
Jakes girlfriend has multiple names in the movie.
Her clothes change in the movie but I assume this is intentional.
And that's it from us!
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