I'm Thinking of Ending Things
- heavy
- slow-burn
- surreal
- bleak
- cold
- twisty
Heavy, slow-burn, measured drama / thriller, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →Nothing is as it seems when a woman experiencing misgivings about her new boyfriend joins him on a road trip to meet his parents at their remote farm.
Our read · I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020) reads as a heavy, slow-burn, surreal drama · thriller entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
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The shape of I'm Thinking of Ending Things
What watching it is actually like.
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The reading.
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