![]() ![]() She’s resentful that only a man at her hip could deter the man she calls a creep beside her, and she remarks that Jake wouldn’t have made a move if she had been there with her boyfriend instead of her girlfriend. ![]() It’s less clear when she vaguely mentions a girlfriend on the car ride, but here it is certain that she loves a woman, and does not wish to be bothered by men. Whether her character is defined by traits all belonging to one person or of many, we know this much is true: she was at a bar celebrating an anniversary with her girlfriend when Jake came over, and the confrontation left her unsettled. With a female partner and a resignation against being expected to have a man around for protection, this particular woman comes off as exclusively homosexual, thus a greater challenge, and an impersonal failure in his personal life, so this is what he imagines for himself, and defines that it isn’t real for him. Jake wants to wrap this daydream around someone impossible for any man, so that rejection is less personal, but even he is aware of how his leering presence may be remembered, though we don’t know if he enjoys this discomfort. She is unattainable, here with her girlfriend, yet the lack of a man by her side makes her appear available to Jake, who is so desperate. ![]() The big question is: why her? The young woman is just another girl in a bar at trivia night, not interested in this man hanging around begging for conversation. This is a story being written as it goes, one whose narrative isn’t even outlined outside the ending dance through the halls of an all-too-familiar high school, and Jake’s self hatred pushes through when even his imagined girlfriend ( Jessie Buckley) wants to end things, just not the same way he does. It seems as if time is shifting, the janitor’s parents, or Jake’s ( Jesse Plemons), his younger self, changing age in the imagined story, as he cannot decide when in life this is. Its ending confirms little but that this is one man’s delusion, and that that man is the lonely janitor wandering the halls of a cold empty high school, creating a lover for a younger, more desirable self out of women seen at a distance. Ĭharlie Kaufman’s I’m Thinking of Ending Things is a film that doesn’t quite come with a set answer. If you are coming into this having absolutely no idea what you watched, we recommend reading Shea Vassar’s explanation of that ending for Film School Rejects. Whether it’s due to a unique plot twist or some controversial subject matter that deserves further exploration, the Spoiler Room provides a place for our authors, and you readers, to discuss a film’s details outside of our regular spoiler-free reviews. ![]()
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