![]() ![]() Jake’s mother then starts cleaning, now a younger woman. Jake’s parents begin to suddenly seem older and Jake mentions that the young woman, “Lucia”, studies gerontology, or aging, when previously the science she had said she worked on was physics. The young woman gets a call from “Yvonne”, which she answers and hears a male voice saying he has one question to answer. Jake’s mother explains she has tinnitus, hearing a buzzing noise in her ear. The mother asks how they met, and the young woman tells the story of how they met at a trivia night but the story has many inconsistencies.Īfter dinner, the young woman sees a photo of young her that she then sees as young Jake. Jake ends up snapping violently at his mother. The parents then ask her about her work in science – not painting. She gets missed calls from “Louisa” and shows the parents pictures of her work. ![]() At dinner, they talk about the young woman being a painter, not a poet. Jake’s parents meet the young woman and call her “Louisa”. The basement door is locked and has scratches all over it, which Jake says is from their dog Jimmy. The young woman at various times seems to say she lived in a farmhouse like Jake’s and at others in an apartment. On the grounds, they find the lambs dead and frozen solid, and the pen where all the pigs lived before they had to be put down after they had been eaten alive by maggots. Interspersed with all of this are scenes of the janitor getting up and doing his daily routine, going to work at a high school.ĭespite the intense snow, Jake insists on giving the young woman a tour of the farm. There is a lot of snow, which worries the young woman as she has a big scientific paper to write the next day. The young woman notes a brand new swing set in front of an abandoned house, which she finds strange. She then gets a phone call that is from a “Lucy”, which she declines. On the drive, Jake mentions some poems he loves that are written to a woman named Lucy – “like me”, the young woman notes. She admits that maybe it’s a bad idea to go meet his family when she doesn’t think the relationship is going anywhere, but she is curious where he comes from. They leave a town and begin driving into lots and lots of farmland. They are headed on a trip together to visit his parents for the first time. Very briefly, she sees an elderly janitor in a window who also thinks that he is thinking of ending things. Only when you're prepared to do that work will I recommend it to you.A young woman (Jessie Buckley) confesses in narration that she has been thinking of ending things with her boyfriend Jake (Jesse Plemons), who she has not been dating terribly long, maybe seven weeks. Just trying on a whim and then complaining about it won't cut it. So get into your Dostoyevski reading mood or whatever and only then attempt a viewing. ![]() The only beautiful thing in the movie is Jessie Buckley. There is no hero journey, no big reveal of information that will guide you through life, no story. There are no twists at the end, the basic premise is made clear rather soon and from that moment you will wait for the film to end. Maybe it will make you ponder the nature of reality and inner life, maybe it will make you grab a gun and kill yourself or your parents, maybe it will make you write a dissertation on it, so other people get what you got or at least friends will honor you for surviving through it, but relaxing entertainment or any sort of pleasure that is not purely intellectual you will not get. Once you know you are going to see that, you won't feel cheated when finally starting to watch the movie and realizing it will not entertain you at all. You might want to check that out before attempting to see the film. It is also worth mentioning that this film is based of a book, one that is not written by Kaufman, but right up his alley. Because you need to understand you are going to sit through the slow, oh so slow, dissolution of a man's mind, complete with heavy references to books and films and musicals, awkward scenes that make you want to skip forward, long internal monologues, the whole thing. Foundflix has a nice Explained for it, but watch or read whatever. It's a two hour fifteen minute film that requires another twenty minutes for the obligatory YouTube video that explains what you've just seen. This one, though, is better if you are well prepared for it. Usually I recommend people to not watch or read reviews, just enjoy the film in their own way. ![]()
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