7/10
"I'm Thinking of Ending Things"
8 November 2020
A young woman travels with her new boyfriend to his parents' secluded farm. Upon arriving, she comes to question everything she thought she knew about him, and herself. (Via IMDb)

This might be the highest rating I give for a movie that I did not enjoy AT ALL. After I read some explanations about the movie I kind of loved it more but it was still one of the most boring movies I have ever seen.

The movie is so deep and it will make the audience very confused after they watch it, but that "confusion" was too much and over the limit in the movie. Sometimes you don't want to confuse the audience too much so the movie won't be boring to them and that's what happened to me in the movie, I got really bored that I couldn't wait for it to end, felt like the movie was 6 hours especially that the movie is very deep and heavy.

The film's runtime was the worst thing about it, 2h 14m is A LOT, I think if it was decreased to 1h 45m then it would have been better.

Although I didn't enjoy the movie at all, the film's cinematography, sound effects, set design, and custom designs are the ones that made me give the movie a rating of 7/10. The fact that it is a 4:3 frame makes it deeper, scarier, and way better, you will feel scared and confused because that frame is so narrow so it will build a lot of weird feeling inside of you. The film has a few frames that were very great and visually stunning. The different customs of "The Girlfriend" were beautiful, especially that one at the very beginning of the film when she was wearing a red coat. The design of the house was incredible. And the sound effects which gave the movie that scary taste, the sound of the wind or snow, the chains, and the windshield wipers were all some amazing details especially that the movie did not have a specific music soundtrack album.

The script was well written especially that it was written by the amazing Charlie Kaufman who is one of my favs. screenwriters. The movie had many lines and quotes that were so deep but the dialogues were sometimes very long which made some of them look boring because it's been going for a long time. Not saying that I did not enjoy these monologues, they were just too long.

The cast was perfect especially Jessie Buckley, she played her character very well and exactly how it should be played. Toni Collette (Plays The Mother) and David Thewlis (Plays The Father) were incredible especially Toni Collette's weird / scary / loud laugh.

"I'm Thinking of Ending Things" was quite a boring / long movie that I expected more from it. The movie did a great job of being scary and leaving the audience with many questions but I was expecting more.

My rating is 7/10
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