Im Thinking of Ending Things (2020)

This movie is so confusing. I Like this type of movie for sure but its so weird. 

In the most broad way possible, this movie is about an imaginary couple on an imaginary road trip that a high school janitor who is considering suicide dreamed up. I got the idea that some aspect of this couple and this road trip was made up considering how the parents acted and how depending on when Lucia saw them, they were older or younger, and the dog kept on appearing out of thin air. The random cuts between the trip and the janitor confused me at first, but once i finished the movie it made a lot of sense. I think this movie is simultaneously really thought out, and not thought out at all. I know it's not really supposed to make sense, but I feel like this movie just didn't hit the way it was supposed to. I do really like the storyline and how the movie represents loneliness, illusions and fantasies. I like how the characters changing age or seemingly jumping story to story is really reflective of how the actual imagination works. its easy to jump to a different time or think up a different outcome when you're imagining a story which i think the movie reflected well. 

overall i thought the movie was ok. it isn't a movie everyone needs to see by any means. But i do think its a decent movie. I was trying to find a few more darker movies and movies with more complex meanings and this really accomplished that. 

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  1. Mr. HOctober 22, 2023 at 6:24 AM

    I'm in the same camp you are. Visually, it's interesting. Narratively, it has something to say. But it really doesn't gel.

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