I'm Thinking of Ending Things

 

I’m Thinking of Ending Things 2020

• Director: Charlie Kaufman
• Seen by this director: nothing he directed but many that he wrote for film
• Based on the book by Iain Reid
• Cast: Jessie Buckley, Jesse Plemons, Toni Colette, David Thewlis, Guy Boyd
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• Jessie Buckley – The Lost Daughter, Women Talking, Judy, Chernobyl, Wild Rose, The Tempest (on stage at the Globe in London and on DVD)
• Jesse Plemons – Judas and the Black Messiah, Breaking Bad, Paul
• Toni Colette - many Abbey, The Turn of the Screw
• David Thelis – many
• Why? The cast and the book
• Seen:  23 March 2025 

            The young woman, possibly named Lucy or something else, (Buckley) is thinking of ending things with her new boyfriend Jake (Plemons) even though he’s nice and smart and kind of cute. She thinks this while riding with him in his car through farmland to meet his parents for the first time.

            She finds that things on the farm are brutal, even creepy. And especially weird. His parents (Colette and Thewlis) are nice but very weird. And they keep shifting in age from middle-aged to very old and dying, to young and normal parents. Jake is weird too, sullen one moment, violent the next, sweet the next.

            Many reviewers hate this film. I could never hate any film with Buckley and Colette, even if it is incomprehensible. It has a Waiting for Godot feel. Very profound but what is it about? I like that kind of thing.

            It’s even weirder than the book. 

4½ * of 5