In one scene he shouts and slams his fists on the dinner table, furious that his mother pronounced the name of a game he was good at in childhood wrong. While he is quiet and cheerful when alone with his girlfriend, he’s quick to anger in the presence of his parents, who seem to embarrass him. The strangeness begins with her, but Jake and his family are also an experiment in contradictions. Her profession, too, changes at key moments in the film, such as when Jake beams while telling his parents over dinner that she is an artist, but later mentions she is studying microbiology, then gerontology. She is Lucy, then Lucia, then Louisa - a revolving door of L-starting names, never claiming a single one for more than a moment. 4, the apparently simple premise of “I’m Thinking of Ending Things” is made complicated as viewers realize that the truth is subjective and nothing is truly as it seems in the lives of this young couple.Īlthough the young woman’s perspective is front-and-center, including voice-over monologues and asides that tell viewers exactly what she’s thinking, her name is never made entirely clear. 28 in select theaters and available on Netflix as of Sep. A psychological thriller and skillful enterprise in the art of subdued horror, director Charlie Kaufman’s latest film purports to follow the story of a young woman (Jessie Buckley) who contemplates the longevity of her relationship during an evening of “meet-the-parents” with her boyfriend Jake (Jesse Plemons).
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