![]() ![]() ![]() The novel’s rendition of her interior life is basically an extended AITA anecdote plus traumatic flashbacks, a series of fears and reminiscences never fully separate from Jake. In place of what’s been subtracted, Kaufman adds, for starters, an actual personality for his female lead. ![]() Not knowing is human.” This isn’t, by my estimation, philosophical dialogue I’m not sure it’s even a TED Talk. I think questions make us feel less lonely and more connected. That’s what pushes and stretches our intellect. If you want to know more about life, how we work, how we progress, it’s questions that are important. Both book and film begin with said narrator (Jessie Buckley, whose character is referred to by multiple names onscreen) and new-ish boyfriend Jake (Jesse Plemons) on a long drive to his parents’ place for the dinner from hell. On the page, the narrator’s flatly written interior reverie (a mixture of childhood memories, fears this relationship won’t last, etc.) is broken up by conversation like this, which Reid is pleased to call “essentially a philosophical dialogue”: “Maybe we’re not supposed to know all the answers. Otherwise, the dialogue’s almost entirely been junked before a final act of Kaufman’s own conception, which are both excellent substitutions: the novel has a manifestly underwhelming twist ending and isn’t exactly packed with scintillating exchanges along the way. Charlie Kaufman, I'm Thinking of Ending Things, Iain Reid, Jesse Plemons, Jessie Buckley, NetflixĪdapted from Iain Reid’s 2016 novel, Charlie Kaufman’s I’m Thinking of Ending Things returns to familiar preoccupations-solipsistic men and idealized girlfriends, already subjective memory’s decay, aging and death, ambitious futility. From the book Kaufman retains the text of page one (an interior monologue from the unnamed female narrator), some dialogue from the subsequent first chapter and the course of events up to about page 150 (out of 210). ![]()
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