But then comes one of those lines of dialogue that reveals, almost inadvertently, where a filmmaker is coming from. And a movie about them is destined to be a kind of death dance, too. What they have isn’t a relationship - it’s a slow-motion death dance. Listening to these two, we can see what the problem is: They’re depressives who don’t spark each other. When Buckley tells us that she can’t imagine the relationship lasting, we nod our heads, thinking: It’s hard to see, actually, how it ever lasted past one or two blah dates. At his behest, the two discuss Wordsworth, Mussolini, the musical “Oklahoma!” and suicide bombers, but mostly they seem to be acting out their mutual sense of muffled despair.
Im thinking of ending things stills cracked#
But Jake, who sounds like he’s never cracked a joke in his life, is a painfully staid and passive fellow with a dry, droning voice and a way of showing off his arcane knowledge of things that can bring any conversation to a standstill. Buckley’s young woman is no happy camper, but with her fast-break grin, her blithe putdowns, and her aureole of reddish curls, she has a cynical urban vivacity. Should she be ending that?ĭuring the car ride, we see why that question might be hanging in the balance.
But the words also apply to the relationship she’s in. The first words we hear, in voiceover, are Buckley confessing “I’m thinking of ending things,” and she then describes what could be a suicidal tendency. “I’m Thinking of Ending Things,” the new movie written and directed by Charlie Kaufman, opens with an extended road-trip sequence in which a young woman ( Jessie Buckley) - she’s identified in the credits simply as the Young Woman - drives through a country snowstorm with Jake ( Jesse Plemons), her boyfriend of six weeks, to meet his parents at their Oklahoma farmhouse.
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