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I'm Thinking of Ending Things
2020 135 min United States of America R 16+
★7.0
Mystery, Thriller, Drama
Director: Charlie Kaufman
🎭 Based on
«I'm Thinking of Ending Things»
byIain Reid
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Description
Nothing is as it seems when a woman experiencing misgivings about her new boyfriend joins him on a road trip to meet his parents at their remote farm.
Starring
Jesse Plemons
Actor
Jessie Buckley
Actor
Toni Collette
Actor
Awards
13 wins & 102 nominations total
Key opinion
Charlie Kaufman’s film is a dense, surreal exploration of regret and existential malaise that rewards attentive viewers while alienating those seeking traditional narrative clarity. While the performances by Jessie Buckley and Jesse Plemons are universally praised as anchors for its complex themes, the film's unconventional structure and pacing provoke significant debate.
| Acting | Jessie Buckley and Jesse Plemons deliver powerful, layered performances that ground the film's abstract narrative. | |
| Theme | The film utilizes a claustrophobic, meta-modernist tone and surrealist imagery to effectively convey themes of memory and self-deception. | |
| Screenplay | The narrative structure is intentionally obscure, functioning as an intellectual puzzle that demands active audience participation rather than passive viewing. | |
| Pacing | Opinions on the film's pacing and length are divided, as the dialogue-heavy, contemplative tempo is experienced as either deeply immersive or exhaustingly repetitive. | |
| Accessibility | Accessibility is highly subjective; some viewers find the film’s Lynchian, cryptic style rewarding, while others find the lack of literal clarity and misleading marketing frustrating. |