Someone has to be a pig covered in maggots, right?

Keith 2022-04-21 09:02:51

Charlie Kaufman's new book, "I Want to End It All," by my favorite screenwriter, tells the story of a couple's journey back to their man's house as a guest. The swing in front of the dilapidated house, the frozen lamb, the rotten pig, the strangely old and suddenly young jake parents, the phone call that the girlfriend doesn't want to answer, the inexplicable ice cream shop, the inexplicable dance and awards, all this can't help but make I wondered if they were being swept away by the vortex of fast and slow time, or were they jumping on different timelines. However, after reading it, I found that was not the case at all. This time, Charlie Kaufman and the original author did not add any fantasy elements to the story, which was not a small deviation from my expectations. After all, the idea of ​​"Being Johannovich" really sucks. If everyone is the chief director of their own life, just like the sentence in Han Han's film: After listening to a lot of great truths, I still can't live my life well. Even if it is so good, there will always be some people who will make this movie a bad movie for various reasons. ,Is not it? Watching bad movies is definitely torture. Such a shity life is also a kind of torture. So you come up with different plots and false hopes, but you can't choose the perfect time to bring your girlfriend home in your fantasy, which is very tragic. So you think about ending it all. Someone has to be a pig covered in maggots, right?

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  • Reginald 2022-01-05 08:01:59

    The discussion about the basement at the 30th minute of the film finally made me feel a bit embarrassing and interesting. The whole movie is the reincarnation and hypnosis of consciousness and time. The story happened beyond the specific environment, and the whole seemed weird. It may be the most suitable movie to talk to yourself during the epidemic lockdown. im totally lost but still feel good about it

  • Letitia 2022-03-25 09:01:14

    Kaufman's new book "I Want to End It All" finally focuses on the word "want". It reminds you that the completed state of "ending" has never left the artistic kingdom constructed by the hero and heroine's imagination, and then came to the real world. The reason why the heroine has been forbearing and shrinking is obviously because of her own psychology of worrying about gains and losses in love and lack of assertiveness in the value judgment of this relationship. The same is true for the male protagonist. After being judged by his parents' value scale, he also realizes that he has never escaped from his parents' control. When the artist makes artistic concessions, the ego becomes indecisive, and there is a high risk of walking into unpredictable horror circles. In fact, this absurd atmosphere has been spreading and spreading. The film has been emphasizing the tension in the relationship between the sexes and the inescapability of the present time and space. If Nolan's Creed renounces temporality because of the functionality of art, then Kaufman uses the futility of art to finally recall the ephemeral but eternal dance of the relationship between the sexes. Assuming this is Kaufman's last work, his predictions of the future are cold, dark and known.

I'm Thinking of Ending Things quotes

  • Mother: I'm saying, take the darn nightgown to the basement. Live dangerously!

  • Young Woman: Other animals live in the present. Humans cannot, so they invented hope.