I’m Thinking of Ending Things
Written by Charlie Kaufman, based on a book by Iain Reid
Directed by Charlie Kaufman Starring Jessie Buckley, Toni Collette, Jesse Plemons and David Thewlis
Running time: 2 hours and 14 minutes
MPAA Rating: R for language including some sexual references
by Rosalie Kicks, Old Sport
“You’re the expert on things cinematic…”
“Yea. I am.”
Snowstorms can be quite deceptive.
In January several moons ago it was a Sunday evening at my parent's home, I was eighteen years of age. The snow started falling finely around five o’clock or so. In what would become a rare occurrence, I was hanging out with my brother and, well, we were actually having a great time. Reminiscing and bonding, chatting like old war buddies. I had to head back to school. At the time, I was attending a university that would go down as just one of my many mistakes as I entered into my twenties. A backwards institution located in the exact middle of nowhere.
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