#im thinking of ending things

[fairycosmos]

i'm thinking of ending things by iain reid

[mediademon]

Toni Collette in I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020)

"A whisper...As if I'm constantly being whispered to. Maybe it's sharing the secrets of the universe with me...but I can't tell...Maybe it's giving me stock market tips."

[desirableendings]

musings on hope

Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar // The Vision of the Empyrean by Gustave Doré // 254 by Emily Dickinson // Hope I by Gustav Klimt // Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit // I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Charlie Kaufman // @sunsbleeding // Anthem by Leonard Cohen // @niccillustrates // @mumblesplash // The Garment by Louise Glück // @mugofsoup

[harlequindaydream]

Double post today! Last 2 parts of the little series I have here as tribute to my underrated queens 🖤

top to bottom, left to right: Nina Sayers from Black Swan (2010), Jenn Remming from Sweetheart (2019), Daphne Peters from Braid (2018), Elaine from The Love Witch (2016), Adelaide Wilson from Us (2019), Dani Ardor from Midsommar (2019), and Edith Cushing from Crimson Peak (2015).

From top to bottom, left to right: Lisa from Lisa Frankenstein (2024), Vanessa Shelley from the Five Nights at Freddy's movie (2023), M3gan and Cady James from M3GAN (2022), Lucy/"young woman" from I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020), Pearl from Pearl (2022), and Emerald Haywood from Nope (2022)

[lynchiandoll]

Mulholland Drive(2001)/ Ellie Parker(2005)/ Inland Empire (2006)/ I'm Thinking of Ending Things(2020)/ Romy and Michelle: In the Beginning (2005)

[enigmatic-blues]

I've been watching movies to make the sick day more fun, so far I've watched We're All Going To The World's Fair and now I'm rewatching I saw the TV glow

Afterwards I'm gonna either watch "I'm thinking of ending things" or rewatch Scott Pilgrim vs the world

[dogcyder]

Coming home is terribly lonely...

Jealous girl! + shitpost 2 feel better

Everything's on Instagram too, per usual!

[mes-popcorns]

- I’m Thinking of Ending Things (2020)

[lunalovesangst]

I was re-watching I'm Thinking of Ending Things (which, if you haven't seen, you really should) and I'm at the part where Lucy is reciting the poem Bonedog and it may be that I'm currently obsessed with TUA but.....

Is it just me or is the poem giving Five?!?

For example:

Coming home is terrible [...] whether you have a wife or just a wife-shaped loneliness waiting for you.

Like try telling me that isn't about Dolores. Try it and see what happens.

One note in this post and I'll write another one with more details of the poem and its correlation with Five's time in the apocalypse and his return to 2019.

[comotsolebo]

'I'm Thinking of Ending Things' painting study

[fairycosmos]

im thinking of ending things by iain reid

[thebookdragonshoard]

okay so

i plan to write up a review of the book i’m reading now (I’m Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid) HOWEVER! it is my favorite book and therefore has around 150 annotation tabs in the book so it’ll be a very long review. so which would yall rather? (or hypothetically rather if you don’t follow my blog yet)

the poll is only gonna be open for a day bc i plan to finish this book today and write a review today or tmr for it

[iggy-behaviour]

i hate winter.

looking out my window, i feel like the only things that exist are the house across the street and the snowy road that lies beyond that.

yet the world is so vast that it seems to extend beyond infinity.

im thinking of ending things.

[stinkyfen]

made a long while ago, prob my favorite radiohead song. "that was a little song by... radi-oooo ga gaaa... radiohead"

[roachfarmer]

[goodolreliablejake]

Last night I watched Hereditary and it took me a long time to decide if I liked it or not, and I ultimately decided that I didn't.

I'm willing to admit that maybe I missed something, and there is more to this movie than I'm giving it credit for. But it felt to me like another example of my biggest movie pet peeves.

There's a feeling of intrigue when you genuinely don't know where a film is going. Most films are formulaic enough that not knowing what kind of film you're watching as you're watching it is gripping and novel. I like speculating, and I like weird, experimental stuff that doesn't have a clear answer. My pet peeve is when the film does have a single, specific answer, they just withheld it from you for most of the runtime. Here are some examples of what I mean:

2010's Remember Me is perhaps the most egregious example, and I was genuinely outraged when I saw the final scene, as if a prank had been played on me personally. The whole time, I was trying to figure out where this winding, psychological romance/family drama was going. Turns out it was 9/11 the whole time. That was the twist. That was the whole thing.

2020's I'm Thinking of Ending Things was a bigger disappointment, because I had much higher expectations for the majority of the film. Of course I noticed the ways in which our female protagonist was inconsistent in name, personality, profession, etc. but it didn't distance me from her. Rather, it made me feel empathy for the experience of being projected onto by a man, of being at the whims of his passing insecurities when you're just trying to live.

There's a scene with the parents where they discuss art and how to interpret it, how to see various feelings within landscapes, and I took this at first as a guide to how to interpret the film; even if things don't make sense literally, the feelings it arouses in you are significant in themselves.

But no, it isn't that open to interpretation after all. The movie really is entirely about the man. It's the dying dream of a man committing suicide, and that's really all it needs to be. Again I felt tricked.

The connecting point, to me, of all these twists is that they'd be better as starting points than ending points. You lost a loved one on 9/11? Okay, let's explore that and how you cope and how it changes you. You exist within the dying dream of a man committing suicide? Okay, let's start there and then tell the story.

It's something trite given significance only by being hidden.

Which brings us back to Hereditary. The most obvious theme as I watched was generational trauma and family dynamics, so as I waited for the other shoe to drop, I was wondering about the thematic conclusion. What statement does this film make about family and trauma? Well, I don't think it says much of anything. Because the big secret is that there's a cult and a dark god who possesses people. And I'm not sure it really is much deeper than that.

Also I think it's ableist but that's unrelated.