CHARLIE KAUFMAN’S films traverse America, from New York to Los Angeles to Cincinnati . The writer-director’s latest film, “I’m Thinking of Ending Things”, takes place in the snowy plains of Oklahoma but, like the rest of his work, its real terrain is the human mind.
Adapted from an acclaimed novel by Iain Reid, the film centres on a young couple. An unnamed woman travels with her boyfriend, Jake , to meet his parents for the first time at their farm. Although they have only been dating for six weeks, their relationship is on the wane and they are on the verge of breaking up. There doesn’t seem to be any real reason for this as Jake is a good partner, he listens to her and takes an interest in her work and her hobbies.
At dinner, Jake’s parents are curiously stilted and, in the film’s first surrealist touch, their ages change drastically over the course of the evening. Jake’s mother starts out middle-aged, then morphs into a young housewife with a beehive hairdo, before ending up lying in a hospice. Mr Kaufman shows the same scenario from multiple angles while withholding the meaning of the shift.
how can this movie be more cerebral and confounding than his masterpiece Synecdoche, New York? Notice you didn't mention it, watch it again without any expectations, may be the greatest movie ever made.
Charlie Kaufman might be coming to terms that human mind is complex as is always in battle with the spirit of man.
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