I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Short description
A young woman is having doubts about her relationship with her new boyfriend, Jake, but has not yet acted on them, so she agrees to travel with him to the remote farm where his parents live. What begins as an ordinary visit turns strange on arrival: the house and its inhabitants feel wrong, and a snowstorm traps the four of them together on the isolated property. Cut off from everything, she starts to question her boyfriend, herself and the world around her.
Charlie Kaufman directed and wrote the screenplay, based on Iain Reid's novel, and produced the film with Anthony Bregman and Robert Salerno. It is his third feature as director, following Synecdoche, New York and Anomalisa, and it precedes How to Shoot a Ghost. Jesse Plemons and Jessie Buckley play the couple, with Toni Collette and David Thewlis as the parents and Guy Boyd as the janitor. The cast also includes Hadley Robinson.
The film runs 135 minutes and was released in 2020. On IMDb it holds 6.5 out of 10 from around 109,000 votes, and on TMDB 6.5 out of 10 from roughly 2,300 votes, while critics gave it 7.6 out of 10 across 270 reviews, so reviewers responded more favourably than audiences did.
What's left behind the scenes
- Director Charlie Kaufman wanted to use a real pig in the scene with the naked janitor, but found out that pigs cannot walk on wet floors or turn their heads. The pig had to be created using computer programs.
- According to director and screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, Netflix management did not allow the filmmakers to shoot the film with an aspect ratio of 1.37:1, fearing that viewers would mistakenly believe there was something wrong with their televisions.
- Initially, Brie Larson was cast in the role ultimately played by Jessie Buckley, but she soon left the project to focus on filming the science fiction action films 'Captain Marvel' (2019) by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, and 'Avengers: Endgame' (2019) by the Russo brothers.
- One of the wigs worn by Toni Collette in the film was originally made for the filming of the first season of the series 'Stranger Things' (2016-). The same wig was also used during the filming of the miniseries 'Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street' (2023).
- The nameless girl's clothing changes as the phone subscriber changes. Lucy wears a knitted black and orange sweater, Louise a knitted jumper, Yvonne long-sleeved blouses and dresses. The position of Jake's father's bandage and his mother's hairstyle also change.
- After spending some time in a refrigerated truck, the janitor undresses completely. This is a sign of hypothermia – a person begins to feel unbearable heat.
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