I'm Thinking of Ending Things2020

Charlie Kaufman is a master of reading minds of depressed, lonely and troubled people and showcases it in a way like no one on this earth. It’s surreal, magical and magnificently tragic with phenomenal performances by all especially Jessie Buckley, Toni Collette and Jessie Plemons. Presentation is very close to his directorial debut Synecdoche, New York. Even the way central character thinks is slightly similar to the lead character in SNY. Why Kaufman is one of the best Writers/Directors and THE BEST in this genre (that’s almost always twisted In a good way) is, he literally knows how to project the character’s distressed mind in an allegorical yet fantastical way. You can get lot many stuffs about a character just by the character’s book preferences, poet, theatre and musicals, the way the character sees new people/new faces and struggles to interact with some of them as past comes in between, the way past can never be thrown away as present is alienated by the past, the way the character tries to be free from all the negative thoughts and sees himself/herself in other people. Kaufman shows all these in a way that really seems to be playing inside the character’s subconscious mind and tragically yet in a surreal way it’s executed to make his viewers understand what the character is going through. It’s deliciously ambiguous and addictive that I watched it twice and could get lot more nuances in the second viewing.  “Coloured by mood, by motion, by past experiences. There is no objective reality” Kaufman - I BOW DOWN TO YOU 🙏🙏