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  • (Film entitled) I'M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS

    From Jared@1:229/2 to All on Tuesday, September 08, 2020 21:16:19
    From: bijgh@hotmail.com

    Charlie Kaufman brings the mindfuck novel to Netflix and it all ends up a bit disappointing. Great performances by Jessie Piemons (Todd from BREAKING BAD) and Jessie Buckley (off CHERNOBYL and TABOO) as nerdy Jake and his new girlfriend who's already
    thinking about breaking things off as they road-trip upstate to meet Jake's parents.

    Starts off well enough with the trip increasingly weird and dinner with parents
    David Thewlis (channeling a BBC sitcom dad) and Toni Collette (doing her standard schtick) satisfyingly strange, then starting to feel threatening.

    But the end is bloody annoying.

    SPOILERS I SUPPOSE...


    We swap the book's emotional gut-punch for a load of "seriously...?" An honest-to-god five minute ballet scene, a speech from A BEAUTIFUL MIND and a song from OKLAHOMA. Then roll credits.

    And a film that's mostly two people talking in a car has no business being more
    than two hours long.

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  • From The White Lady@1:229/2 to Jared on Friday, September 11, 2020 08:52:07
    From: me@privacy.net

    Jared <bijgh@hotmail.com> wrote in news:1841dda2-d0e1-4466-8e59-b5d4a149b4c2n@googlegroups.com:

    Charlie Kaufman brings the mindfuck novel to Netflix and it all ends
    up a bit disappointing. Great performances by Jessie Piemons (Todd
    from BREAKING BAD) and Jessie Buckley (off CHERNOBYL and TABOO) as
    nerdy Jake and his new girlfriend who's already thinking about
    breaking things off as they road-trip upstate to meet Jake's parents.

    Starts off well enough with the trip increasingly weird and dinner
    with parents David Thewlis (channeling a BBC sitcom dad) and Toni
    Collette (doing her standard schtick) satisfyingly strange, then
    starting to feel threatening.

    According to Amazon, I purchased the ebook in 2017. No idea whether I've
    read it or no. Cannot be doing with Kaufman's cockery, even the cast list
    is winding me up.


    But the end is bloody annoying.

    SPOILERS I SUPPOSE...


    We swap the book's emotional gut-punch for a load of "seriously...?"
    An honest-to-god five minute ballet scene, a speech from A BEAUTIFUL
    MIND and a song from OKLAHOMA. Then roll credits.

    And a film that's mostly two people talking in a car has no business
    being more than two hours long.


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  • From Blackwingbear@1:229/2 to Jared on Friday, September 11, 2020 07:49:05
    From: blackwingbear@gmail.com

    On Wednesday, September 9, 2020 at 4:16:20 AM UTC, Jared wrote:
    Charlie Kaufman brings the mindfuck novel to Netflix

    I loved it. Had more to do with the theory of Entanglement in Quantum-Physics &
    the depressing awkwardness of the roles we try-on & cast aside throughout life and relationships than concrete-characters (I loved that the parents kept re-aging & that her
    career-choices & majors kept changing, as did the expectations for which was the intelligent partner). You have to put-aside the formulaic expectations of the characters sticking to the roles or expectations of concrete "action" with no psychological-
    symbolism. This whole movie is psychological-symbolism. I'll grant the last 20 minutes can try a person's patience - by that point, you already get what it is
    saying & it feels like it is cramming it down your throat. Also, throw-away what you've read
    asinine film-reviewers state - this film isn't about "the girl", it's Jake looking-back on his life & coming to terms with himself. The awkwardness & discomfort in the first half-hour had me bouncing up & down in my chair & giggling - one of the best
    portrayals of that.... If only it could have kept that feel up without winding-down into explaining itself over-and-over-and-over.

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  • From Jared@1:229/2 to Blackwingbear on Tuesday, September 15, 2020 23:34:45
    From: bijgh@hotmail.com

    On Saturday, September 12, 2020 at 12:49:08 AM UTC+10, Blackwingbear wrote:
    The awkwardness & discomfort in the first half-hour had me bouncing up & down
    in my chair & giggling...

    It's also fairly unsettling and menacing - until it isn't.

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  • From Blackwingbear@1:229/2 to Jared on Monday, September 28, 2020 17:16:20
    From: blackwingbear@gmail.com

    On Wednesday, September 16, 2020 at 2:34:47 AM UTC-4, Jared wrote:
    It's also fairly unsettling and menacing - until it isn't.

    Only if you don't see how that is EVERYONE'S life, anyway.

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