{"id":16563,"date":"2020-09-25T21:50:02","date_gmt":"2020-09-26T01:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=16563"},"modified":"2020-09-25T22:01:31","modified_gmt":"2020-09-26T02:01:31","slug":"im-thinking-of-ending-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/im-thinking-of-ending-things\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Thinking of Ending Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{2.5\/5} &#8220;Everything is tinged, OK? That&#8217;s the thing you have to realize&#8230; Coloured by mood, by emotion, by past experience. There is no objective reality.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>I&#8217;m Thinking of Ending Things<\/strong>, released in 2020<\/p>\n<p>A young woman is on a road trip with her boyfriend Jake. She likes him, but she&#8217;s having second thoughts about their relationship. Then they arrive at his parents&#8217; place. His parents are friendly but just a bit odd. At first she just thinks there&#8217;s the usual awkwardness of meeting the parents, but then things get odder.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t imagine who will like this movie. There are some interesting parts at first, but it gets stranger and stranger. And not the kind of strange that&#8217;s brilliant like <strong>Being John Malkovich<\/strong> and <strong>Eternal Sunshine<\/strong> but the kind of strange that makes you want to turn it off.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s some interesting stuff about a couple who&#8217;s not quite on the same brain wavelength, and then some interesting stuff with peculiar parents. But then it falls off a cliff &#8212; into boredom and nonsense.<\/p>\n<p>Toni Collette and David Thewlis are brilliant at portraying characters who are just a bit odd.<\/p>\n<p>Stars Jesse Plemons and Jessie Buckley. Directed by Charlie Kaufman (writer of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/eternal-sunshine-of-the-spotless-mind\/\"><strong>Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{2.5\/5} &#8220;Everything is tinged, OK? That&#8217;s the thing you have to realize&#8230; Coloured by mood, by emotion, by past experience. There is no objective reality.&#8221; I&#8217;m Thinking of Ending Things, released in 2020 A young woman is on a road trip with her boyfriend Jake. She likes him, but she&#8217;s having second thoughts about their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[15,6,5],"class_list":["post-16563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-drama","tag-movie","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16563"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16573,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16563\/revisions\/16573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}