Hypo-agency: when a person incorrectly believes they have little to no control over their thoughts, feelings, and actions. They see themselves as just a passenger in life and things happen to them. They are often unfulfilled, lonely people who feel miserable, weak, and trapped in a meaningless existence. They wait for other people to make decisions for them, to notice their problems, and to solve their problems. They avoid making decisions and taking any risks. Typically resulting in their life passing them by, wasted on people and activities they don’t actually care about.
I didn't watch this movie when it came out, since everyone told me it sucks. Plus you have to be in the mood for it, and i currently find myself in the mood for it.
I'm Thinking of Ending Things is a 2020 American surrealist psychological thriller written and directed by Charlie Kaufman. It is an adaptation of the 2016 novel of the same name by Iain Reid. Despite second thoughts about their relationship, a young woman takes a road trip with her new boyfriend to his family farm. Trapped at the farm during a snowstorm with Jake's mother (Toni Collette) and father, the young woman begins to question the nature of everything she knew or
understood about her boyfriend, herself, and the world.
While doing minor research on this movie for this review i saw a lot of confusion as to what this movies about, which surprises me considering how frequently this movie directly talks about it themes multiple times.
You ever get tired of all the plastic optimism? All of the IT GETS BETTER and EVERYDAY IS A BLESSING type bullshit that fly's in the face of just how much being alive beats you down? this is the movie for you. Its not all as nihilistic as that brief intro makes it seem, but it is lovely to have a movie that understands how bullshit everything is. How dangerous Yes and-ing your way through life is, and how it leads you to die without a soul. We are all getting old, things will only get worse and more difficult as you get older, and when you do get older you will essentially be discarded whenever you have out lived your use.
For TIME, Stephanie Zacharek wrote:
"For every moment of raw, affecting insight there are zillions of milliseconds of Kaufman's proving what a tortured smartie he is. I'm Thinking of Ending Things must have been arduous to make, and it's excruciatingly tedious to watch."
Karen Han of Polygon wrote:
"The lack of clear answers and structure can be frustrating, but the strange way the story is told enhances just how real the exchanges between characters feel. The frustration that Lucy feels with Jake, that Jake feels with his mother, that his parents feel for each other, are all uncomfortably tangible, especially as tensions rise. The film's 134-minute runtime is a long time to sit with that feeling, but Kaufman’s big divergence from the novel he's adapting is in lending its ending a more buoyant note."
so ya know.... what they said
10/10
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