If you’re now not hyped for I’m Thinking of Ending Things, let me lay out the details: Charlie Kaufman and his bizarre enigma mind made his first live-action movie in additional than 10 years for Netflix, the streaming provider that so steadily we could filmmakers do regardless of the heck, with Jesse Plemons and Jessie Buckley on the entrance of it. EW simply dropped the primary photographs as of late, and in vintage Kaufman style they’re now not openly ordinary by any means however you’ll simply really feel one thing…extra happening.
The Synecdoche, New York director virtually completely traffics in mindfucks, whether or not he method to or now not. “I don’t set out to do a mindfuck,” he instructed EW. “I’m not setting out to do something that ‘tops’ some sort of brainteaser I might have done before. But there’s no question that I’m trying to build on the stuff that I’ve already done.”
I’m Thinking of Ending Things is, definitely, a mindfuck. Based at the acclaimed novel through Iain Reid, the movie sees Jake (Plemons) using his female friend (Buckley) to his formative years house to fulfill his oldsters (Toni Collette and David Thewlis). If you’re unfamiliar with the e-book, simply leisure confident that issues get started off wonky and construct right into a full-on breakdown of reminiscence, truth, and time that revolves across the easy concept of unveiling a vital different the place you grew up.
“The house represents the imagined interaction between someone you bring home to your parents — that panic that is twoheaded at that point,” Kaufman mentioned. “You’re worried about what they’re going to think about your parents, and you’re always worried about what your parents are going to think of them.”
Check out the pictures under. I’m Thinking of Ending Things debuts on Netflix on September 4. For extra at the movie, right here’s Plemons teasing its “mental torture“.
Image by way of Mary Cybulski/Netflix
Image by way of Mary Cybulski/Netflix
