![]() ![]() The seemingly impossible-to-adapt source material is categorized as a literary thriller. Tackling Canadian author Iain Reid’s 2016 debut novel, Kaufman set himself another challenge that would defeat most screenwriters. In his Oscar-nominated screenplay for Spike Jonze’s 2002 film, Adaptation, Kaufman turned his struggles to whittle a script out of the nonfiction Susan Orlean book The Orchid Thief into a dizzying meta-plunge into the creative process. It sinks its claws in early on and never retracts them. That invention of hope surfaces intermittently - in fragments of forced cheer and embattled optimism, glimmers of happier times past or imagined futures, in a corny ice-cream jingle or even a rapturous dream ballet lifted from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! (The intoxicating score by Jay Wadley ingeniously riffs on 1950s advertising and lush romantic musicals in those latter cases.) But the underlying melancholy is pervasive. But it doesn't have jump scares and that sort of thing.“Other animals live in the present, humans cannot, so they invented hope,” says the female protagonist played with gnawing dread by Jessie Buckley, first identified as Lucy and then by several other names throughout. There are creepy elements, and it's a horror movie in the sense of things that I think are horrifying: regret, isolation, aging, loneliness. “It’s less a horror movie than a meditation on a whole bunch of other human attributes. “I do have a bit of concern about that, because I don't want people to be misled,” Kaufman says. 'I'm Thinking of Ending Things' isn't a horror movie, at least not in the traditional senseĮver since Netflix released the trippy first trailer last month, "Ending Things" has been labeled a psychological horror thriller on Twitter and by critics drawing early comparisons to "The Shining," "Get Out," "Hereditary" and "Midsommar." So what’s it all about? And how should you watch it? Kaufman tells us what you need to know about his love-it-or-hate-it masterpiece that's dividing critics, called "weirdness at its worst" by the San Francisco Chronicle and "the year's most creative film" by the Chicago Sun-Times. 'El Camino': Jesse Plemons calls 'Breaking Bad' sequel 'the darkest buddy comedy ever' What to stream this Labor Day weekend: Disney+'s 'Mulan,' Netflix's 'I'm Thinking of Ending Things' Oh, and it’s all intercut with scenes of an unidentified school janitor just going about his day (but more on that later). Jake’s parents are equally confounding, growing dramatically older and younger from one moment to the next. The girlfriend’s name alternates from scene to scene – is it Lucy? Louisa? Amy? – as does her outfit, her job and the story of how they met. But as they drive through a snowstorm to meet his parents ( Toni Collette and David Thewlis) at their rural farmhouse, you immediately get the sense something is off. The movie opens with a pragmatic young woman (Buckley) mulling whether to break up with Jake ( Jesse Plemons), her stifling and overearnest boyfriend of seven weeks. The heady film is written and directed by Oscar-winning screenwriter Charlie Kaufman (“Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”), who adapted it from Iain Reid’s cerebral 2016 novel. “Don’t go in with any expectation of anything and see what happens,” the actress says of the deeply strange and unsettling new drama (streaming Friday on Netflix). Jessie Buckley has two words for anyone watching "I'm Thinking of Ending Things": Brace yourselves. Watch Video: When Jesse Plemons got Charlie Kaufman script, he knew he was in ![]()
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