cause loneliness

Reagan 2022-03-21 09:02:33

Fifty-year-old Jake is kind-hearted, knowledgeable, and versatile, but he has never experienced love because of his unpretentious personality and withdrawn personality. After his mother died, Jake lived alone in the city, working as a cleaner at his alma mater high school. A great sense of loneliness made him lose his mind. One day when a snowstorm is approaching, Jake is getting ready to go to work, fantasizing through the window that his younger self takes his girlfriend to meet his parents for the first time... Movie quote is not fully summarized: Richard Rogers -- Oklahoma! (radio song, ballet scene, Lonely Room ...) Eva HD -- Bonedog David Foster Wallace -- A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again Guy Debord -- Society of the Spectacle Pauline Kael -- review of A Woman Under the Influence Oscar Wilde -- Quote on non originality Robert Zemeckis, made-up movie Baby It's Cold Outside, period sexism A Beautiful Mind, John Nash's Nobel Prize speech Tulsey Town Ice Cream, fictional, inspired by Dairy Queen

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  • Young Woman: [about his onset dementia] I'm sorry that y-you're...

    Father: That's okay. Truth is, I'm looking forward to when it gets very bad and I don't have to remember that I can't remember!

  • Young Woman: Coming home is terrible whether the dogs lick your face or not; whether you have a wife or just a wife-shaped loneliness waiting for you. Coming home is terribly lonely, so that you think of the oppressive barometric pressure back where you have just come from with fondness, because everything's worse once you're home. You think of the vermin clinging to the grass stalks, long hours on the road, roadside assistance and ice creams, and the peculiar shapes of certain clouds and silences with longing because you did not want to return. Coming home is just awful. And the home-style silences and clouds contribute to nothing but the general malaise. Clouds, such as they are, are in fact suspect, and made from a different material than those you left behind. You yourself were cut from a different cloudy cloth, returned, remaindered, ill-met by moonlight, unhappy to be back, slack in all the wrong spots, seamy suit of clothes dishrag-ratty, worn. You return home moon-landed, foreign; the Earth's gravitational pull an effort now redoubled, dragging your shoelaces loose and your shoulders etching deeper the stanza of worry on your forehead. You return home deepened, a parched well linked to tomorrow by a frail strand of... Anyway... You sigh into the onslaught of identical days. One might as well, at a time... Well... Anyway... You're back. The sun goes up and down like a tired whore, the weather immobile like a broken limb while you just keep getting older. Nothing moves but the shifting tides of salt in your body. Your vision blears. You carry your weather with you, the big blue whale, a skeletal darkness. You come back with X-ray vision. Your eyes have become a hunger. You come home with your mutant gifts to a house of bone. Everything you see now, all of it: bone.