Movie

I'm Thinking of Ending Things

2020 · 135 min

A disorienting, melancholic puzzle that burrows under your skin and rewards close attention with haunting imagery.

Tagline: It stays, it sticks, it lingers.
Overview: 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.
How it feels: Melancholic, eerie, tense and dark. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Identity, isolation, memory, aging
Content: Mild violence, gore, sexual content and language.
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Tone: melancholicstrength 3 of 3
eeriestrength 3 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: identity
isolation
memory
aging
death
Places: countryside
road trip
school
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
unreliable narrator
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild