Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): September 4, 2020
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JLuis_001Sep 7, 2020
I’m Thinking of Ending Things it’s quite a trip. I expected no less from Kaufman, but what lies behind the facade is too vague. And when you wander down that path if there’s no heart behind the intellectual pomposity, you will hardly give theI’m Thinking of Ending Things it’s quite a trip. I expected no less from Kaufman, but what lies behind the facade is too vague. And when you wander down that path if there’s no heart behind the intellectual pomposity, you will hardly give the viewer good reasons to remain interested beyond the fact of assuming that it’s a "deep" film and the weak couldn’t understand it.
Honestly, I'm already preparing for the wave of opinions that I will see about that online.

I’m Thinking of Ending Things feeds on being weird but unfortunately for its development it doesn't seem to be interested in that weirdness being something worth mentioning, rather that is simply the presentation layer. It's an idea that doesn't seem to make sense, especially since this is reflected in the characters and you understand it when after certain events you realize that there is no central character. The idea and its conceptualization are those who take center stage but that only makes sense when you realize the characters presented aren't going anywhere.
Sounds weird? Trust me it's weirder.

From the beginning when we have the perspective of the character of Jessie Buckley, you realize that something is wrong.
She's meeting her boyfriend's parents for the first time but while inside the car with him, we can see he's barely interested in responding to her. We arrive at the parent’s house but there, the story stagnates and even when the film invites surrealism, it's evident that there's a big disconnection between what is seen on screen and what I assume is being explored in its philosophical allegories.

In that house we meet the parents of Jesse Plemons' character and they are played by Toni Collette and David Thewlis, but both characters are shown so exaggerated and clumsy that at no time they seem like real people.
Although it's evident that it's about putting a discordant atmosphere in that home in which a good piece of the plot takes place, one also cannot help asking what the true purpose of that was.
And it's that what follows is quite bizarre. The characters turn into others, several times, this because time seems to go back and forth and you ask yourself many things at that moment and not so much because you want to know what is happening, but because it's inevitable to question whether there will be a payoff to all that stuff. Unfortunately as you keep going you realize that it doesn't really matter and is there where the key and monumental flaw of this film lies.

If at all times you're wondering what is real and what is not, I could say the matter could be more interesting if finding the meaning was significant and then you would ask yourself was it worth it?
But ultimately and with 134 long minutes that question echoes over and over again and my response is: ''It wasn't''
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Brass_sassSep 5, 2020
Honestly i enjoyed the movie its Charlie Kaufman doing what he does which is good, just the movie lacked a good driving force in the movie as a opposed to the book which had me compelled al the way through, yet the mov8e looks great and itHonestly i enjoyed the movie its Charlie Kaufman doing what he does which is good, just the movie lacked a good driving force in the movie as a opposed to the book which had me compelled al the way through, yet the mov8e looks great and it portray what the book was going for but. Differently, this film is more of a abstract rather than a thriller like the book Expand
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snorkissSep 13, 2020
I'm thinking of ending things after watching I'm Thinking of Ending Things. Great performances and interesting concepts are wasted on this bloated, self-indulgent mess - 4 stars
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tibzoidSep 4, 2020
The title is what you’ll be saying to yourself throughout. Oh the boredom of this.
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FadeBlackJan 27, 2021
There were some interesting quotes and themes mentioned in the movie, but the surrealistic approach to examining them didn't do much for me. Life is confusing and is a mixture of contradicting feelings and emotions...feels like the message ofThere were some interesting quotes and themes mentioned in the movie, but the surrealistic approach to examining them didn't do much for me. Life is confusing and is a mixture of contradicting feelings and emotions...feels like the message of most surrealistic films, and this one is no different. A movie that could have been going somewhere interesting but lost its way, at least in my view. Expand
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EldorethSep 12, 2020
After watching this film, I was rather confused and wanted to solve the mystery. But there weren't enough numbers in the Sudoko puzzle to make much sense of it. I went online and someone there had posted something that made sense of the filmAfter watching this film, I was rather confused and wanted to solve the mystery. But there weren't enough numbers in the Sudoko puzzle to make much sense of it. I went online and someone there had posted something that made sense of the film and it clicked. As I've grown I've found myself less and less enthused about vagueness and abstraction. I've started to prefer straightfowardness and truthful approximation. I just think if you have something to say, then say it, damnit. The movie would have hit a lot harder had I know what exactly it was trying to say rather than trying to be "smart" and mysterious.

This movie needed a sympathetic protagonist. It needed to be his voice we heard first, so that we would know he is the central character. By the end we would need to know what is happening and we would empathize with the central character which would produce a cathartic response. We got this in Eternal Sunshine. We could have gotten this in this film too.

I also wonder why the film kept cutting away from Plemmons at the last scene, even cutting away strangely in the middle of a climax in the scene, forcing us to look from afar rather than see the emotion on his face. This repeated cutting close and far was stupid. No other explanation. It was jarring and stupid.
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NoblerevSep 8, 2020
This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. A head scratcher for sure, but too abstract to retain the interest of the average viewer, I powered through it and felt like I'd wasted my time.
I get that it's supposed to be a film you interpretate but it was so disjointed that it just felt lazy rather than like a cinematic masterpiece.
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siggi104Jul 8, 2022
No idea what I've watched but I don't really care. All I felt after watching this movie was damn another -2 hours of my life time. Putting random things together trying to be artsy or deep doesn't make a movie good.

After watching Eternal
No idea what I've watched but I don't really care. All I felt after watching this movie was damn another -2 hours of my life time. Putting random things together trying to be artsy or deep doesn't make a movie good.

After watching Eternal Sunshine and knowing it's by the same guy it makes more sense. A movie has to be understood and work in a vacuum without prior knowledge like that. Which this movie doesn't do at all. This is definitely Kaufmann trying to hit a higher level than Eternal Sunshine in every way but imo he missed the mark. Missed potential!
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moviemitch96Sep 6, 2020
An absolutely bizarre, aimless, and pointless film that I can't even begin to try and sum up. Between this and 'Anomalisa', I've officially decided that Charlie Kaufman should stick to JUST writing scripts, cause his sense of direction isAn absolutely bizarre, aimless, and pointless film that I can't even begin to try and sum up. Between this and 'Anomalisa', I've officially decided that Charlie Kaufman should stick to JUST writing scripts, cause his sense of direction is akin to that of a poker player completely unsure of what his next move will be. This is me calling his bluff. Expand
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QuelhasSep 9, 2020
This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I am very, very sorry I couldn't understand this movie in its fullness. I could relate to one thing or two, specially in understanding and be empathetic to a lot of emotions represented by the characters, specially on the human impotence with regard to life in general and the degradation of the mind and body. Probably my interpretation is wrong, but I thought I was starting to understand something when I was realizing that she was having the main perspective of the temporal line, watching all the phases of Jake's parents. Can relate as well the disconcerting feeling of ending a boring relationship, and loosing our minds trying to figuring out the meaning of life. The movie reached one point that I lost the meaning of it, and its interest. It would be better if it had a more solid story line. Expand
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JP32Nov 16, 2022
When your movie idea is nothing but hidden messages, I never become involved. And worse, I get frustrated, annoyed, and ultimately repulsed.
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Iamcritical86Jun 24, 2021
Weird. Interesting. Confusing. Sort of a mixed bag of emotions going on, just as this movie seemed to be unsure of where the scenes were going from one moment to the next! I was hoping to figure things out by the end, but that sure a hellWeird. Interesting. Confusing. Sort of a mixed bag of emotions going on, just as this movie seemed to be unsure of where the scenes were going from one moment to the next! I was hoping to figure things out by the end, but that sure a hell never happened! I wasn't particularly fond of those two long, draggy car scenes where they just babbled on back and forth. Those parts were quite draining. Expand
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Kezza565Sep 11, 2020
Not a bad movie, but if it was anyone else making, it would be incredibly pretentious.

Some great scenes and the suspense at times was almost too much to bare, but it tries to be much smarter than it actually is. I was half expecting 'Fin'
Not a bad movie, but if it was anyone else making, it would be incredibly pretentious.

Some great scenes and the suspense at times was almost too much to bare, but it tries to be much smarter than it actually is.

I was half expecting 'Fin' to crop up post credits to close the loviem
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AnudeepSep 17, 2020
I'm thinking of Editing 20 minutes of the movie... My Rating 6/10.

Premise: The story follows a young girl named Lucy or Louisa or Lucia or Is she real? Lucy (Jessie Buckley) Thinking of ending her relationship with Jake (Jesse Plemons),
I'm thinking of Editing 20 minutes of the movie... My Rating 6/10.

Premise: The story follows a young girl named Lucy or Louisa or Lucia or Is she real? Lucy (Jessie Buckley) Thinking of ending her relationship with Jake (Jesse Plemons), she is dating for a month. Lucy and his boyfriend take a road trip to meet Jake's parents. As the journey gets on, she drifts off in her mind, reckoning about relationships, mortality, time, etc. After reaching their destination, she begins to notice some strange things happening. Review: From the writer Charlie Kaufman, who brought incredible movies like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), Being John Malkovich (1999), brings a mind-twisting, melancholic movie again, I'm Thinking of Ending Things. The story of an individual person Jake, uniquely written in a psychological thriller genre with elements of remorse, loneliness, conscious. The painterly look of the sets (in the farmhouse) Is excellent, as you saw in the poster. Great cinematography, which traps the audience in its 4.3 ratios.

Every scene in the farmhouse is beautifully crafted, the tension continually rises until it ends. Strong acting by Jesse Plemons, who played a creepy, miserable person Jake. And Toni Collette, who was given an astonishing Performance in hereditary, again showed her excellent acting abilities.

Cons: It's not the complex story I didn't like, its execution and the approach, the pieces didn't come together at all in the end. I'm thinking Of Ending Things drags a lot. Many scenes didn't add weightiest to the script. For example, the 20-minute car ride, Jake and Lucy are returning to the city at midnight, in a massive snowstorm. It's so dark to see what's happening. And the no sense, literacy references, dialogues which add pains to the scene, nothing more. Lucy constantly yells on Jake to take her home immediately. The viewer gets the same treatment as Lucy, Just want to end the movie. Verdict: Appreciable for its surreal and experimental plot. Yet, 130 minutes of the movie feels like forever. I'm Thinking of Ending Things is a perfect mixed bag with its brilliant first half and frustrating second half. My rating is 6/10
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iCampoRamilNov 16, 2021
Kaufman se fumó uno bien grande para hacer esto, aún así, me gustó un montón.
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