WTF did I just watch?
Can someone explain it to me?
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MovieChat Forums > I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020) Discussion > WTF did I just watch?
A Charlie Kaufman film... though in this case, most of the responsibility probably lies with the author of the novel it's based on, Ian Reid.
But in seriousness, though... you just watched the dying reminiscences of a lonely, elderly school janitor, his perspective projected onto a girl he only met once but always wished he had actually had the nerve to ask out.
Thanks, that's the answer I was looking for.
shareThanks for that spoiler. I really hate with a passion these type movies that are replays or mental tricks of dying minds. Once or twice I suppose is either clever or an attempt to be new and original, but there are so many movies that use this device now. It is like at the end the protagonist wakes up and it was all a dream - but at least that can have some point. Guess I will miss this one ... but I just cannot bear to looks at Plemmon's face anyway.
shareI called it as soon as they start showing the random images of the guy. "He's the older version of the other dude." But I thought they might actually do something clever like the old man would 'save' her through some sort of supernatural intervention after the serial killer vibe they were trying to wrongfoot us with regarding the younger version of him.
I wish they had stuck with that version, because it could hardly have been more ridiculous or nihilistic what we got, a dance scene and then a naked old man committing suide in his car. Thanks for that, Charlie Kaufman. My life is so much more enriched for having seen that :/
I was beyond bored with it honestly.
shareYou already got your answer basically. I was just wondering: The first half of the movie we see the movie more or less
from the perspective of her and in the End the movie is the perspective of a dying old man. Isnt that against all writing rules. (May be thats the point: "I am Charlie Kaufman there are no rules for me")
May be he tried to hard not to let this movie end with an deus ex machina but finally it still is. And as al writers know: Deus ex machina is the worst possible ending you can write...