Like his 2008 masterpiece Synecdoche, New York, I’m Thinking of Ending Things is dense with surreal details and cryptic meaning.
The biggest hint about what, exactly, is going on in both the book and the film comes in the title.
In both the book and film, the voicemails are almost always the same. “I’m Thinking of Ending Things” relies on a surprise finish that’s crucial to any evaluation of the story. Here is a collection of my favorite quotes from I’m Thinking Of Ending Things! A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagina…Chloe Brown is a chronically ill computer geek with a goal, a plan, and a list. Since it's mentioned in the book several times that he's quite intelligent (he was going to be a professor), he creates a last-ditch persona--the girlfriend--to conduct a thought experiment.
Funnily enough, that is the most accurate summation of this novel possible.The back of this book merely promises that you will be afraid and not know why. that creeps up on you, it would be super easy to spoil it for someone if you weren't careful. Yes, it does. It was Jake,” Reid writes.
I’m Thinking Of Ending Things is so effective as an exercise in mounting, irrational unease that this reader couldn’t help but feel a little disappointed when Reid finally brought it to a very rational conclusion, unveiling the secret he’d been dancing around for the entirety of the novel: that the young woman, our faithful narrator, is actually just a figment of some lonely janitor’s imagination. A dark imagination, a sinister smile--always on the outside of the group. I was immediately requesting this one on NetGalley the second I saw it, as it sounded right up my alley. We're all the.
All film criticism is personal. Yes and no. This was a very quick read and it kept me in suspense until the very end.
Loved it! Yep. When someone else previously unconnected to us knows us in a way we never thought or believed possible.” Charlie Kaufman is better than perhaps any living filmmaker at literalizing the subjective experience of existence. Maybe.
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The tours of the barn and the abandoned school were fantastic. I’m thinking of ending things.
I have to tell you that I thought this was going to be a 1 or 2 star book for me until the very end. I have to tell you that I thought this was going to be a 1 or 2 star book for me until the very end. My problems all lie within the plot itself.The back of this book merely promises that you will be afraid and not know why.
Jake concludes that she would have eventually dumped him, and therefore he would still end up as a middle-aged, suicidal janitor. My immediate reaction upon finishing: "What was that?
That’s not a biological connection like the one between parents and children.
This was one of those books. No. I was immediately requesting this one on NetGalley the second I saw it, as it sounded right up my alley. Jake once said, “Sometimes a thought is closer to truth, to reality, than an action. "This was a horror show.
What would that feel like? From the moment I’m Thinking of Ending Things’ title comes up on the screen, writer-director Charlie Kaufman intends to make you work for it. I was constantly on edge reading this, particularly during the second half of the novel, and while the writing style was pretty simple, it was exactly what this type of story needed—just overall a really effective book. I thought it was terrific reading up until the snow storm and the Dairy Queen connection.