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How I’m Thinking of Ending Things Book and Film Differences Make For Perfect Complements

Charlie’s Kaufman’s filmic interpretation of Iain Reid’s celebrated novel I’m Thinking Of Ending Things has arrived on Netflix and it’s a complicated, beautiful, confusing work – certainly unless you watch it twice. The book and the film sit wonderfully together, both broadly the same narrative but both leaning into different strands and elements, with the movie picking up half-hinted at threads from the book. They both work, but in different ways. If you were wondering whether you should read the book first or watch the film, the answer is read the book. Not because it’s necessarily better – the two…
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I’m Thinking Of Ending Things Ending Explained

Netflix chiller I’m Thinking of Ending Things has arrived to confuse and bemuse. It’s based on the novel by Iain Reid, which is also a mystery, and it’s adapted by Charlie Kaufman, a man with a history of playing around with concepts of fiction and reality in his screenplays such as Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Synecdoche, New York. I’m Thinking of Ending Things is no less oblique, no less confusing, particularly if you haven’t read the book and only want to watch the movie once. Yep it’s a movie, and a book, which really requires you…
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I’m Thinking of Ending Things Review: Charlie Kaufman does existential horror

Based on brilliant but deliberately mysterious novel by Iain Reid, adapted and directed by Charlie Kaufman who is known for his complex meta-textual scripts including Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind and Adaptation, I’m Thinking of Ending Things is a perfect storm of philosophy, ambiguity and wankery. Not quite as dense as Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York but definitely very much on the arthouse end of the spectrum for Netflix, a great sense of tension, unsettling visuals and terrific performances from its leads keep I’m Thinking Of Ending Things on the right side of weird. It’s opaque but…
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Critical Thinking

Based on a true story from 1998, five LatinX and Black teenagers from the toughest underserved ghetto in Miami fight their way into the National Chess Championship under the guidance of their unconventional but inspirational teacher.Rated: Not RatedRelease Date: Sep 04, 2020
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i’m thinking of ending things

Despite second thoughts about their relationship, a young woman (Jessie Buckley) takes a road trip with her new boyfriend (Jesse Plemons) to his family farm. Trapped at the farm during a snowstorm with Jake’s mother (Toni Collette) and father (David Thewlis), the young woman begins to question the nature of everything she knew or understood about her boyfriend, herself, and the world.Rated: RRelease Date: Sep 04, 2020
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Charlie Kaufman’s I’m Thinking Of Ending Things Gets Creepy Trailer

The first trailer has arrived for I’m Thinking of Ending Things, a new Netflix feature film based on the acclaimed 2016 debut novel from Iain Reid. The film is directed by Charlie Kaufman, who also wrote the screenplay, and while the book it’s based on loosely falls under the ever-expanding umbrella of current horror fiction, the new teaser is squarely in the wheelhouse of the man who brought us Being John Malkovich and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, among others. Here’s the trailer: Jessie Buckley (Wild Rose) stars as a young woman who is, as the title states, debating…
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The Test & The Art of Thinking

Each year more than 3 million high school students take the SAT or ACT, the college entrance exams required by most four-year colleges in the United States. For decades, however, there have been questions about exactly what these tests measure, what role they play in the admissions process and how predictive they are of academic success. The anxiety-provoking exams, and the multibillion-dollar test-prep industry that has grown up around them, have also become lightning rods in the ongoing national debate over equity in educational opportunity.Rated: Not RatedRelease Date: Apr 27, 2018
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