I'M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS (2020) Explained 

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That's Charlie Kaufmann for you

Lmao literally

I loved the move but I was like - what’s going on

Just like life.

yeah i was like wth? Jake has name and damn its sad asf

YES I NOTICED THAT

THAT MAKES SO MUCH SENSE NOW 😭

Yeah i was kinda mad about that because it seemed like a spoiler

YEAH

@putsome basilonit indeed shudder

😂

when you give up hope, you give up life

The most terrifying part being that it can happen to literally anyone.

Hold up. They talked about the rapey song... then when fake jake and fake Lucy dance in the hallway you see the janitor try to rape or attack Lucy? Anybody catch that??!!

Like the drumroll to a jump scare

I also felt that feeling, I think it's a feeling that Jake also had. An idea that eventually, somehow, his life would reach some sort of climax, a moment of excitement in his otherwise drab life.

The janitor watching them kiss made me jump big time

EXACTLY

@Arthur Frayn Exactly, and that happens. Reading comments they expect it as a scare of fear but not the indication of how you said it as the film gave. I've seen comments be harsh and cruel on the jeniter of his situation. It seems to me with relationship how people feel if not met, audiance can participate on the decay of someones desire, or stigma if not met or ridicule even if their old, like society commanding them not to have these emotions, as it dictates its creepy or weird. Society just doesn't get it or is stupid too connecting people right or share something that has good but is interpreted ir subverted. It gives downhill advice and makes the soul rot. The film touched on levels and I had to stop halfway when it was in the car conversation. As I went outside the front laying on the grass at night smoking, I'm not a smoker but i needed it becouse it just hit, others films were these idealicual agenda generalists crap, they were just roll over eyes for me, topical. That was last year, it was a mirror no agendaed filters. Joker was one and then this one. Two films mirroring my circomstances and feelings making them legitimate (But audiances were mixed since the film directly was giving and showing what it was about.) That's how films or storys can be told but it's a rare case. I just sat laying on the grass thinking about my life that what I felt wasnt irrelevant, I felt alone but recognised by it, that felt good feeling ease just to know this sociaty isnt fixed (Or right or just) right as it thinks it is. The heartwarming moment was the janitor in the school empty, giving an indication that the hall is scary, but it's just the janitor, empty. Hes always known that empty place. And a hug was all he really needed in his life, someone to be with. Society gossips relationships these days as if its materialism or teaching how to decline with doubtful advices which is put on everyone. Why people have pets and say they give interaction more then humans, that was one article, a woman from the sun newspaper said that, possibly deep down that's what they wanted, connection but thinking it didnt matter becouse sociaty or its rotting advices said so. There is so many interpretations of relationships, but watching all of them, this film tallys ups all the strains and barriers. This society heavily invests declining, a friendship and perverts it and think it's just culture or mediocre or overrated. Why adulthood and its expiernce when it comes too relationships perverts others or alienate others. The guy that made the book just wanted to make it, and he was just chilled outside. It's kinda a warning sign too sociaty, its audiences. There is alot of big hearts out there, you are only taught or expiernce the decline. Dont put it on others, dont make stigmas on people becouse you think you have it figured out. All people want is connection.

Exactly

It was... It was literally Jake's death dream as he died from hypothermia.

Just what I thought too

The Kaufman special.

Im going to have weird ass dreams foreal

Its so crazy. I went back and forth on who the movie could be about. I ended with the interpretation that the girl was delusional for some reason.

I found out the girl was imaginary when they kept changing her name

@@LuisSierra42 ya thats when I decided it might be Jake controlling everything.

Yes that was cleverly set up from the start by having her appear before young Jake. I think it's relevant that she is a figment of his imagination but that she gains an amount of sentience within that: Jake seems shocked when he hears her thoughts that he is not totally in control of her character even though he thought she was only in his mind.

I thought the movie was some emotional movie about suicide and then I started to this it was a horror movie

Ahhh i knew he looked familiar.

Such a good episode

Calebunga he was also in breaking bad lol

Which season is the episode from? :0 I wanna check it out.

FireMeetsGasoline it was season 4 episode 1

Wow 🥺😳

If you watch until the real end, the picture gets clear again, and you can see a ghostly light leaving the building.

🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

But does the janitor die in the car? When hypothermia sets in, people can interpret this as feeling really warm, which may be why he takes off all his clothes. Does he really leave the pickup and walk into the building with the cartoon pig? Does anything in the film really happen? If Lucy doesn't exist, then why would Jake be visiting his parents with a non-existant girlfriend? If he doesn't, then the whole film is just in Jake's mind, charting events that never happened.

@@richardellingworth4484 Yes, you’ve reached the point of the movie. Now keep going.

yeah, shame I wanted WAY more from her in the movie

Same

what other movie did she play in?

KihTea hereditary

she’s so good at it too

Same! I really wanted to skip forward but I didn't wanted to miss something

I actually did skip over them 😂😂

oh hi again bro during the movie i went to my kitchen to grab a drink and it literally felt like i was high

you worded it perfectly

I wanted to skip over the whole movie because i felt so uncomfortable

Yeah I was thinking of that too! As soon as he started stripping I figured he had hypothermia. And then I believe he started to hallucinate then as well... but at the very end when it showed his truck covered in snow I can only assume he was still in there, dead.

I thought dementia.

wow I never thought of that

Yes I thought that too

Hi twin 🤣

I love this ! And yea our ideas aren’t original: even his fantasies were just inspired by different parts of movies and writers and such.

What an excellent theory. Yeah, the whole time it was actually the deuteragonist who was the main character. The poster and the film made you think it was going to be about Lucy ending things with Jake, when in actuality, it was his suicidal thoughts. I liked the non-linear narrative, the plot twists, and how all the random scenes and random time periods later connected together, making it Jake's past, present, then, death unfortunately. A great film that just makes you have to stop and think.

Your theory makes so much more sense, I love it.

i initially thought jake and the janitor were different people, and the janitor has been stalking lucy obsessing with her to the point that he had to kill jake--- the existential part of the whole thing just went over my head lmfao

THIS! What an underrated comment! There are several explanations but yours hit the hardest. I almost cried reading this.

If you didn't understand the movie, it means that you aren't depressed.

@@nag0074 naw im depressed but im fucking stupid too

@@ellamcgloin4703 honestly, same! 😂

@@ellamcgloin4703 lmaoo

I feel lame ashell

Probably, could as well represent his addiction to sugar or that he has diabetes

Luis Sierra nah

maybe the number of times he had considered suicide, before he finally did it.

The many cups represent the many girls he fantasized about without ever talking to them, i think, but your guess Is as good as mine!

Luis Sierra bruh💀

🤣🤣

🔫👨‍🚀

you are not funny

Lol

Whenever I see in a movie I know it will be fire. She is always in a horror/thriller movie.

I KNEW SHE WAS IN HEREDITARY

And Krampus

And Knives Out playing the complete opposite kind of energy, but still crazy, social media guru mom

This movie and Herediatary both keep tension throughout, never giving any relief. No comedy or jump scares. Incredible.

So underrated, been watching her since Muriel’s wedding

You should see my ex at a party

I love her

@@davibrass Lmaooo

Yh she was impeccable in hereditary

This was me exactly. My brain said yeah thats betobd enough of the internet for tonight😂

I turned off critical thought when she changed personalities 3 times on the way “home”. Just strapped in for the ride and burst out into audible laughter at the audacity of the movie to jump into interpretive dance out of nowhere!!

same. i started texting my friends back at that point 😂

I still don't know if you guys are complimenting or insulting

@@jordanhoward9362 same😭

ΔLΞX 😮

Yeah I think it’s because the whole thing is a fantasy happening in the janitors mind

I think they were also the ones acting in the play practice on stage.

Captain Obvious

Woah. I have to watch this movie tonight

lmao yes

This doesn't make sense since it was his fantasy, it was all in his mind. There was actually no girl he just made one up. Did you even watch the movie or the video?

@@hepthiccttv5565 it was a joke-

Subverted expectations. Directed By Ryan Johnson🤣

lmaooooo

Omg! Same

I interpreted the film's ending as Jake imagining what it would be like if his relationship with Lucy did last. The end of the dance sequence is Lucy and Jake looking at each other, in front of a dead man's body. Lucy is the first to leave. Symbolically, she has told him "I'm thinking of ending things," which is what she wanted to say the whole film. The dance sequence ends on a downbeat note, just like the relationship between Jake and Lucy. The musical number, just like the dance sequence, is representative of Jake's feelings. For the whole film, we followed Lucy. We saw her behavior, we saw her feelings, we heard her thoughts. But how did Jake feel, during and after their relationship? The musical numbers are Jake's fantasy, his feelings, his thoughts about the relationship between him and Lucy, particularly the breakup. It's about what he wishes to have happened, even though it all lies in the past. He wishes Lucy never ended things. That's my interpretation of the film's ending.

That's where I'm at. I feel like, for a movie like this, no single idea about how it panned out can properly accommodate every detail. I can see Lucy not being real. That idea makes sense to me. But it didn't come across in the movie because Lucy's thoughts and ideas were defined and antithetical to an ideal girlfriend. What guy fantasizes about a girl who wants to break up? Why would she ever need to get home? Wouldn't his fantasy be for them to stay at his parents'? It sure seemed that way. Instead, she's left to freeze to death in his car. My takeaway was that it's a story of a girl who's struggling with an unfulfilling relationship. It fits some scenes better in my mind, but it doesn't explain others very well. Like the movie says, the interpretation of your environment is entirely up to the observer

same

@@tilerh17 the girl isn't real and it's about a janitor that killed himself

@@ItsMeBarnaby well damn that's a cool concept ty 🧡

​@@ItsMeBarnaby I missed this crucial point entirely - thank you for sharing.

Yes. That's why she tells him that he could die if he jumped from the moving train implying that he shouldn't take risks.

Good catch.

@@cainanneedham9022 thanks :)

Yes! This interpretation clarifies things for me 👍

Well said , yeah that's really sad that Jake would be that insecure.

Lol sameeee!!

I JUST CAME HERE AFTER HALF AN HOUR.....FIGURED I WOULDNT UNDERSTAND IT ANYWAYS.... SO BETTER TO LOOK TO RU-vid INSTEAD OF CONTINUING TO WATCH THE MOVIE MISERABLY

So scary i did d same think amd i had d same thoughts 💭 😳

Same

Same

Same here. I felt like if my mind was just melting away.

The worst movie I have ever watched

If you want more, you can listen to the album of "The Caretaker". If this movie made you feel like an Alzheimer's patient, this album will make you feel like a Dementia patient.

@@sejama6625 oh tell me about it I went on a month long road trip in 2019 and i was like “oh I should finally listen to it” and I cried my eyes out. It was so stressful.

i felt like my brain was those melting cups in the car

Not related but last of us 2 is fucking awesome!!

@@pizrux6592 you are a person of culture my friend . You are one of the elite few who truly understood the point of the whole thing .Thank you for existing 💚

they were infront of the highscool, i thought i was trippin when i hesrd it

@@KoujiInfected91 shit game shit story, shit decision killing Joel

@@kaneriseley3124 to each their own i guess and that’s ok . For me it was a masterpiece because of how it made me feel and how it changed my perspective on humans and their humanity and how it shaped the way i see things now.

Yes! And her accent!

And the actress from the movie was in the car at one point

Yes!!!!! Finally someone who actually knew

& her earrings

Maybe only because he can't remember what she actually had on

Thank youuu i thought i wasthe only one who thought he has a serious case of Maladaptive Daydreaming. Constantly wasting his life on a imaginary para which he created

LMAOO

I was thinking throughout the movie that the way it flowed seemed familiar, the mind of it. That was before I knew the whole movie was literally about the old janitor’s mind. But I already compared it to my own mind, how things change in the daydreams and it keeps going in any direction, good or bad, and I get so lost. Even when the details are fuzzy and mistakes are noticable, the mind just moves on to the rest of the story. Like in the blizzard, we couldn’t even see the road, but Jake just kept driving, and that road was so incredibly long, and isolated. I had way worse cases of maladaptive daydreaming when I was a kid, could last for half an hour, but now usually regain awareness of what’s happening after a few minutes. When I was a kid, I just accepted it, but now I dread it. It feels like I’m losing time to parasites, just erasing a part of my day to fill that void with their own realities, quite literally like losing a piece of my mind, temporarily. But all you can do about it is keep your mind cool and focused and be aware of your surroundings, checking in on them and how you feel in your body, to stay connected to your surroundings. Hard to do all that with adhd though. But when I do wake up from an uncontrollable daydream, I make sure not to dwell on it. I move on, do something productive, consume some entertainment or educative content, depending on what my body needs, as long as it doesn’t let me keep daydreaming. I shouldn’t have watched this so late at night. It’s 1:30 AM, my mind is absolutely shattered, and I think I’m gonna go take care of my needs now. Maybe clear the table of dishes. Lol sorry for an essay, the words kinda just spilled onto my screen. TL;DR: yes maladaptive daydreaming is a bitch and I feel soberishly high right now. Good night

Thank you.

yes

I didn't even notice untill the young woman suddenly had earrings 🤣 I thought it was gonna be an artsy movie about marrying your parents and then I was just extremely confused

@@JDM-is-my-name I felt guilty that the changing of her jewelry and sweater colours multiple times was the most notable differences when there was much more...lol

i thought it was a continuity error 💀💀

@@amaamaamaamanda same lol

oh its one of these 😭

After awhile I just went with it😭

YES i feel like that shows like how she’s feeling in the moment, like the colors represent her emotions idk

I never did, I never catch continuity errors, it must be the "magic of movies".

Her name as well!

@@crystal-xx6jl and she got calls "from herself"

That's creepy ,especially when all art lovers like Dali ,frida,victor hugo.. never had a happy ending life 😂

As long as your name doesn’t end in Paul

Im scared too :(

Ikram El Rhali nobody’s life, over the course of the entirety of humanity’s existence, has ever ended happily.

@@thelocdesiringentryintoyou3686 that's true 😔

YESSS

God it was so creepy

RIGHT I was so confused and thought I was the one who would notice

It was

YEAH

It felt like a day dream

I literally told my brother halfway through this movie that it seemed like a bad acid trip 😅

Like Mulholland Drive

felt like something i went through as the girls place

Nah, the movie flew by. It didn't feel like 2hrs 15.

Same! 😂😂

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Mr Fudge you only watched 20 minutes of the movie??

Anyone has the book's ebook format?

Let's be honest, you didn't read the book. And its okay, you dont have to lie here. This is a safe place

WHAT?! 😂😂 i didn’t even catch that 🤦🏾‍♀️

steph potter 🤣🤣

steph potter its at the 1:35 mark i just went back to check

That scene was the most fucked up in the whole movie for me. I almost literally jump from the couch lol.

Yess I had to double check

YOOOO why doesn’t this have more likes

ohhh i wondered why he had the rash too, thank you!!

the rash thing makes so much more sense now thank you!!! what about when she told her that she’s scared for her?

15:47 you can see a book title "Introduction to Virology" in Jake's collection of books.

@@naiiiim that scene is basically Jake second guessing his suicide and trying to talk himself out of it. In the end he still does it

lmao yeah. at first she said she grew up in a farmhouse then later changed it to an apt. read the book, its easier to follow.

It’s because she’s a projection of Jakes life so her personality mixes with things that Jake has created for her

There are all sorts of inconsistencies in her stories and memories

I thought it was more like a look at the janitor's daydream. When we daydream, it reflects our desire, or more so, something we can't have - in this case, a youth and a smart, beautiful companion but at the same time we are aware that it can't be true, therefore a constant denial/ murmurs and that weird basement. Also, our daydream is sort of grounded within ourselves and memory yet changes as our environment or desire changes. Therefore, the girl constantly changes as what the janitor is experiencing or thoughts or desire changes. I mean I have so much to share about the movie. It is such a great movie! You are lost through out the movie yet it makes sense and makes you feel what is being felt. It made me so depressed for few days.

@@jordanbrenes7246 a real woman, a real relationship, a real, independent thought, thrown into Jake's own fantasy.

My brother says he feel the same way but even though I can’t Guarantee anything I can only hope things will get better and wish you the best sometimes just having a conversation with someone close can be nice and helpful I feel and trying to look on the upside of some bad situations and trying to be content for as long as you can best wishes man.❤️✊🏾

You can give your life your own meaning and have your own metrics of success. Fuck society and its knack of telling everyone who to be and how to do it. Set some s. m. a. r. t. goals read about how to change your habits and be patient to yourselves. Changes does not happen from. One day to another.

No one's life has meaning

Sorry to read you're feeling this way hun. Try and do things that keep you happy like music gaming or try a new hobby. I'ma keep prayers for you but please know you're here for a reason and please cut negativity from your life it makes a big difference trust me!!!! 😘

ThickerThanASnicker All I can say is make every step about moving forward. No matter how small that step is. I was already in my 30s when I had the same feeling as yours. I’m in my late 40s now and I can actually say I can look behind at my 30s and it’s far away.

I noticed that !! But I chopped it up to it being a movie so of course they aren’t moving

yes! i felt like whenever the camera was on her, the car was moving and the snow was blowing, but as soon as it cut to jake, everything was still and the car wasn’t moving.

Good eye

I noticed that too!

Omg I thought that was just me!!

You may have Maladaptive Daydreaming

@@user-hotchocolate thank you so much for telling me this. I haven’t heard about this until you said it and now I’m able to adjust to this thought

@@dinonspace8620 aww you are so welcome!❤ if it makes you feel better i have this too and its very hard living your life in a fantasy i found out about this a few years ago. If you want to watch another movie on it my suggestion is The Secret Life of Walter Mitty ❤

@@user-hotchocolate I JUST RENTED THAT THE HECKY? Thank you again for telling me this, it’s nice knowing I haven’t been the only one going through these fun struggles

Oh my gawd, same😭😭😭😭😭

That's the defintion of a fever dream

All this time I thought Lucy was Sleep Deprived or something

LMAO

LOL after I watch it i was also thinking maybe to start reducing my daydreaming before things got too serious 😂

Underrated comment. The basement metaphor is super depressing.

Maybe, or maybe not. The girl thinks of endings things with Jake, as in breaking up with him. But that's an allegory of how Jake wants to end his life. That's why when the thought crossed on Jake's head, he would change the subject so could think of something else. If you've never had suicide thoughts, or even attempts, it would be hard for you to understand that. Basically, yeah, the girl is her own character, a character being completely out of Jake's subconsciousness, but not in the way of schizophrenia or split personality. More like the hammer in your head reminding you how fucked up everything is. The one of your inner conversations.

@@Nemo.404 wow that's good

It's not real, it's imagined.

Can’t thank you enough!

Side note, I have watched this "explained" video 3 times and I still don't get it lmao.

Yup! i knew i recognized him but i couldn’t note it, but it was Remus!

Immediatly recognized his voice but damn he got old haha

Whaaaaaaat? I didn't notice that I just noticed it was the voice of the shame wizard from big mouth. Figuring that out right now just baffled me more than this movie did and thats saying a lot lol

Same haha I was so confused

It was totally weird but in the end it feels like it was the 'flash of his life before he died' but most of his life was just other peoples works, ie movies and books.

Same.

My dad described this as "The Shining, but everyone is insane."

I literally said out loud when I was watching this "If this movie is some sort of metaphor or something I'm too much of a dumb bitch to understand it."

Scags that’s also Session 9.

Yeah what was up with that I’m still confused

Sometimes when thinking of distant memories and people in them, you can't quite put a face to the person, and you sort of add a more generic face to them, forgetting the unique details. I think he just used the faces of the high school girls as they are more in the 'now' and the similar to the types of girl that made him feel insecure when he was younger, as the memories of the girls who did that to him is so long ago now.

the dance scene was beautiful

The ice cream shop analysis- The two pretty girls were judgmental. You saw his fear of them. He also would barley even talk to the unattractive one with rashes. He was seeing himself through the eyes of his imaginary girlfriend to get a perspective of what she may have thought of him and what others thought of him. The girl with rashes speaks reason to him through talking with his girlfriend. She appealed to him through her, since it was all in his mind. She was the voice of reason saying “you can stay here with me” showing it’s ok to have problems or not be the best person. Maybe even saying you can find a girl with problems too and be with her, you don’t need the perfect girl. She then says “you don’t have to move forward/keep going down this road”(kinda forgot exact words) she was the voice of reason encouraging him not end up back at his school, at the end of his thoughts where his dead end life, full of hesitation and regrets had lead. The girl with the rashes offered her self and he wouldn’t let his girlfriend/himself hear it. She offered peace in knowing it’s okay to have problems, but he viewed himself to grand and narcissistically to accept himself and who he had become. He continued to imagine what life could of been like if he only lived differently and it lead to a painful regret, pushing him over the edge to suicide, where he wanted to end up all along. He used this story to help give him the courage through pain to push him where he needed/wanted to be. (I understand this may have tons of “holes” in it but it’s merely for fun. Just an interpretation. please keep negativity to yourself. Thanks) Edit: I was thinking about the rashes on the girl. It related to the pigs with the maggots eating there flesh. The girl chose to live with the rashes and even work it a fluorescent lit environment exposing every detail on her skin and make other people ice cream (yikes). She encouraged him to live with the problems even if it was tough. In contrast pig encouraged him and showed him how terrible it was(maggots in flesh...again yikes), exaggerated his problems saying it would ultimately kill him, so he minds well finish the job. The pig talked so nonchalant and matter of fact. It was his last thoughts of reason, comforting him but also more likely fooling himself that this was the best choice. I’m not sure about the whole “brrr” thing or the smell in the back “varnishing”. Please let me know if anyone has any thoughts. And plz like so ppl can see this :) it was a cool movie!

@@Bradmhj wow you can start a podcast, i like your interpretation & this is a great art work , where we as a viewer we are able to interpret in our own liking, feelings & memories we experienced in our lifetime ! its all just some memories as we get old our memories fades the line between the actual reality & our inner objective reality ! IN THE END EVERYTHING ENDS ! Even the whole universe every existing energy & matter dies out finally leaving just nothing ! Have a lovely day/night take care!

Yes because throughout the film it is alluded that the father is part of Jakes insecurities. His father never gave him appreciation for his work and never acknowledged his presence

Yeah i noticed this too it was very odd how a father couldn't look at his own son !

@@jordanbrenes7246 Also I think his father used to constantly beat up his mom. Cuz after the dinner scene, you can hear them screaming at each other in the distance, but you can still hear stuff like screamings from her mom telling him to stop. And Jake and "Lucy" kept talking like they're used to it. Also, in another scene, when Jake leaves Lucy in the car, she starts talking to herself to say things like "He isn't a monster, right" "At least he doesn't beat me." referring to his father.

He also criticizes and doesn’t understand/appreciate Lucy’s paintings, which we later see are his (copied) paintings down in the basement...

I swear y’all make this make more sense ily

Yeah i noticed the food thing too. No one ate (almost) a single thing and "lucy" takes all the plates into kitchen while its all full

i think the motif of food being disregarded could be in relation to the theme of dementia (?) just because loss of appetite is a very prominent issue dementia sufferers face, it could be pointing to the fact that jake himself is going to end up getting dementia

That makes sense

@@smurphodude well I really thought throughout the movie is that Jake has dimentia

Exactly! Also it was weird to see all the food on the table after Jake said his mother probably wouldn’t be up for a lot of cooking!

Yeah, It makes one so uncomfortable 😣

This movie actually reflects me, idk if that sounds weird or creepy. But out of loneliness, grief, and disappointments; I created a made-up world in my head where I am who I’m not and have a couple of people who feels like they’re real. And yup, that’s my escape mechanism and I don’t know how to stop it 😶

@@danieduron1058 me too this was so scary and relatable that I feel like I might be mentally ill lmao

😂

TERRI JOHNSON same lol 😂

Oh nooo, I've had that happened with Dont hug me I'm scared. Hope you're feeling well soon

Too late

Same , it was super hard to get through

@@eaola6988 What a small world. I had a nightmare of Don't Hug Me I'm Scared just recently.

Kinda what actually happens in the book tbh 🙃

It was unnecessarily long and complicated less is more the message was lost.

@@mayachad4449 I don't think it was lost. It actually was hidden.

Maya Chad you mean it wasn’t spoon fed and completely obvious? Part of the enjoyment for me was dissecting all the scenes and discovering what I was really watching which is much more satisfying than any standard, linear type of filmmaking. 2 hrs. 15 is a breezy runtime to me. 🤷🏻‍♂️

@@rjay-d2335 As someone who routinely watches movies like Red Cliff that top 4 and a half hours in runtime, it always makes me laugh when people say 2 hours and 15 minutes is a long movie.

RJay -D2 agreed, my only complaint was in wanting more! I was captivated, didn’t even noticed the time.

omg i was hung up on that dog for the whole movie

YES THAT GAVE ME SO MUCH ANXIETY NSJSJSBHS

OKAY HONESTLY why can I handle people stuck in Hell just fine but when an already dead dog is shaking the cold off himself I get so damn sad 😢

I said what the fuck out loud when i seen that

Ahahhahahaa!

Right. I was like when did we all get suicidal???

Lee Moo Well it wouldn’t surprise me with how awful 2020 has been

I mean... like... 2020 and all... I wouldn’t be surprised...

10 Sep was World Suicide Prevention Day as well

That’s must’ve been terribly upsetting for u but also hilarious

I know this comment was over two years ago, but I actually thought the whole time that the meaning was about that. After I finished the movie I was like "OHHHH It could mean like ending a relationship!!" DHDHHFFJDJ

Same. I also don't like overly pretentious dramas and this movie seems to fall into both categories. I know a lot of people love these 'philosophical' art house style movies but they're a pass for me.

It's kaufman; it's a depressingly dark horror

@@LoveYouLove1986 i like them, but it depends. like he said too, i appreciate the thoughts put into it, but it wouldnt be a good one still. in comparison, a genius one is Birdman for example

@@bw-xv2rz Yeah which is why I'm not a fan.

Same really. I've even stopped watching anything with an extremely sad ending. Life is difficult and often sad as it is, I don't think more mind bending depression needs to be added in the mix.

When?

I thought it was just cause I was high!

mecaka i thought it was bc i was high too lmfaoooo 😭

I thought i just wasnt paying attention and was tripping out. Towards the end to during the second car scene she suddenly is just smoking a cigarette out of nowhere

It's the same actress from the Zemeckis movie. I think it's after the house but before Tulsey Town.

Thank you! Or like when they would disappear! Fostered my theories on the reality of the movie.

This was how I felt! I was like ok so she isn’t going to ask ANY questions at all??? 😂😂😂

we accept the love we think we deserve

I caught that as well!

I noticed the same in one of the scenes it said “(pig) come join us” I was like who is pig didn’t know till later in the movie

Ngl when I saw her talk about how the smell wasn't chemicals, my immediate thought was just, "There's a dead body back there, huh?"

Another possibility is that the rotting pig was the smell. I noticed that on the tulsey town billboard there was a pig and I wonder if those two things were connected. Kaufman probably thought of it as up to interpretation.

It's probably the smells from the chemicals he uses as a janitor. He dies from hypothermia not chemicals

​@@SadFloweGarden He does die in the truck from hypothermia as you see in the last scene of the truck still in the parking lot the day after being covered by snow from the night before

@@sophiabee6513 you didn't watch the after credits, did you?

@Koatei Harven Life is hard, and suffering is an essential part of the human experience. But you don't have to be miserable.

thank you

None at alllllll

Maybe I need to watch it again? I felt the same. And I really love to think and analyze but this one had me stumped

I think the film is willingly confused in comparison to the book that lays out the plot twist in a clearer way I believe.

@@poisonvolkswagon9431 I’m going to have to check it out because I prefer to read anyways

The run-time doesn't help in my opinion. Too much information in such a long movie and my brain couldn't handle it. I liked it tho. It leaves room for thought and many different interpretations

This is an incredibly relatable comment.

tf ???

yea, got me scared for a second

Same

That must have been a scare.

You might need glasses bud

My thoughts exactly 😂

Frrrrrrr bro ! Lmao

Rayna Jay And that’s the exact moment I stopped watching this video...

@@mitzloo1933 To be fair tho he does explain it quite well

​@@PolrisTired That's cool. As a person who had to research this movie after viewing it in order to understand exactly what it all meant, I didn't enjoy hearing this dude say that he had it all figured out after watching the first car ride and a couple flashes of an old janitor. Come on. Yeah, we learned some things, we has suspicions, but to say that the filmmakers "showed their hand" so early in the movie is bull. I felt like I was being patronized, so I watched a different video. I am content. I really enjoyed the film and I like your RU-vid handle.

The Shining but everyone is insane but only one of them is insane.

YES THIS GAVE ME THE SHINING VIBES

YES

It was the photography of the film at times. Every hallway presented as they were looks like the shining

When I finished this film I complained about it on Facebook, then said I needed to go watch something cheerier, like The Shining. Funny how different people made that same connection. I loved Adaptation, but this film just left me with a sick feeling. Maybe that was the idea.

yes same 😅 I literally felt like everything and everyone in my house and outside were warping into craziness like the movie.

Same

Nope

He was saying it clicked, like "ooooh the young guy and the old guy art the same person". What I got from it is the old guy is just daydreaming the whole thing, making a little world in his head with his younger self and that girl Lucy

The only reason I knew about the fantasy part is because I read the synopsis on Wikipedia hehe. If I hadn't read that I wouldn't know what the heck was going on.

I got worried he was ending the stream and then peeped "ohhh. Movie name"

Teddy Holiday can you explain a the just of the book to me I’m so confused rn.

I was thinking this too! The whole movie might have just been a delusion he experienced in his final moments, where he tries to remember his life one last time but some things are a bit broken and fragmented because of age

In the book, he definitely committed suicide.

So 'im thinking of Ending things' was precisely that, he was thinking of it but like other things in his life, he never really got round to it and it wasn't untill he succumbed to hypothermia that he re-runs his life thoughts with Hollywood tropes and even to his own natural passing in one final fever dream. 🤔

That's what I thought too when the old man started stripping. I was like, uh-oh, paradoxical undressing, he is definitely suffering from hypothermia.

At the end the trucks starts up showing he didnt die.

that was immediately what i thought of. i haven’t seen that many people talk about it

Yeah

yup i came here to see if anyone said the same thing

you Mister are smart

Your theory is valuable

i wonder if that’s why he also mentioned a guy who committed suicide was only remembered for that, his suicide. i mean the title itself is almost a reference to suicide as well as the obvious wanting to end a relationship.

Girl, you're spot on.

The movie goes deep in different existential thoughts. This being one of them. So yeah, basically the whole point is how miserable we humans are. How everything is pointless, how we wish things could be better, and we keep longing for things to turn around, but the truth is, we all are fucked.

Abby Bowes This is... a realization. wow. YOUR MIND

you know, there is never one meaning or one side to psychological movies so this could be a potential side, this was actually excactly what i was thinking through the movie, so yh this is another thing they were saying

@@linaskalli4515 i think it just speaks to this film being an art film. There are just so many different interpretations to this piece.

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Wait why pls explain

@@danki4113 it doesn’t belong 😭

Same

Me too I was like noooo

Same😅

Ok, ok... woo, I thought I was the only one.

Me to.

Same

Almost had a heart attack

same

Same

Ikr xD thanks yt i needed the heart attack

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Brother I thought the same thing and freaked out a bit

XD stupid notif showed me everything BUT "explained" Like damnit YT dont you be giving me heartattacks

I read that title at least three or four times and because I didn't recognize the movie or the poster I panicked cuz I thought Foundflix is ending the channel

The same thing happened with my friends

@I drink your milkshake the trailer gave me like a slight horror vibe.

I drink your milkshake it definitely gave more of a psychological thriller vibe. Only certain people thoroughly enjoy them

It looks like a horror, a Silent Hill kind of atmospheric horror, but it never delivers.

@@maijennasis it's unsettling, it's unnerving, and it's effectively disturbing. It's definitely a horror film, but not a conventional one. I loved it.

THANK YOU! I fully thought this movie was about jake having dementia or Alzheimer's until the school scene. Kind of disappointed its not actually about that

She prob wasn’t even acting

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Yes sir it is and he looks like he could be Lucas Till brother maybe, you know...

Rowdy cowboy Randy Miller or Seymour Hoffman lil half brother

I RAN to RU-vid after finishing the movie😭

Damn. That’s deep

You can relate to the questions that Lucy asks but you dont get questions and thats why I think the film is rather frustrating than anything else.

I heard that too! I waited till the very end. Well actually my husband and I were so confused that we just sat there as the credits rolled and that’s when we heard the engine struggle.. both of us looked at each other with our mouths open 😦😦

Wait wtf

Anthony17 ong wtf

The two pretty girls were judgmental. You saw his fear of them. He also wouldn’t even talk to the unattractive one with rashes. He was seeing himself through the eyes of his imaginary girlfriend to get a perspective of what she may have thought of him and what others thought of him. The girl with rashes speaks reason to him through talking with his girlfriend. She appealed to him through her, since it was all in his mind. She was the voice of reason saying “you can stay here with me” showing it’s ok to have problems or not be the best person. She then says “you don’t have to move forward/keep going down this road”(kinda forgot exact words) she was the voice of reason encouraging him not end up back at his school, at the end of his thoughts where his dead end life, full of hesitation and regrets had lead. The girl with the rashes offered her self and he wouldn’t let his girlfriend/himself hear it. She offered peace in knowing it’s okay to have problems, but he viewed himself to grand and narcissistically to accept himself and who he had become. He continued to imagine what life could of been like if he only lived differently and it lead to a painful regret, pushing him over the edge to suicide, where he wanted to end up all along. He used this story to help give him the courage through pain to push him where he needed/wanted to be. (I understand this may have tons of “holes” in it but it’s merely for fun. Just an interpretation. please keep negativity to yourself. Thanks) Edit: I was thinking about the rashes on the girl. It related to the pigs with the maggots eating there flesh. The girl chose to live with the rashes and even work it a fluorescent lit environment exposing every detail on her skin and make other people ice cream (yikes). She encouraged him to live with the problems even if it was tough. In contrast pig encouraged him and showed him how terrible it was(maggots in flesh...again yikes), exaggerated his problems saying it would ultimately kill him, so he minds well finish the job. The pig talked so nonchalant and matter of fact. It was his last thoughts of reason, comforting him but also more likely fooling himself that this was the best choice.

@@anthonyy1790 Its actually not the engine struggling. I watched another video explaining. What we hear is a snow plow. The next custodian worker who"s clueless as to what awaits him

Me too

Right lol. Looked like some kind of disease kinda.

looked like dried ice cream or something

I think that scene is just there to show that he's insecure. Like when someone stares at him for too long, he'll get squeamish.

im pretty sure that was his white beard from when he was older. like how sometimes reality interferes with a fantasy.

i think it was icecream, another example of the timeframes getting mixed up. idk though it was all confusing

Ha, thank you. That is a great catch!

!!!!! I felt the same way!!!

I found the book did a lot of things better. So many times they changed something in the movie that didn’t make sense to me. The “aha!” In the book is a lot more satisfying than the way the movie ends. I too was just waiting for the credits so I could turn it off and say I watched the whole thing. The book was more encapsulating and pulled you into the story more. I feel like it got more in my head and I almost thought the twist would be that he was a killer and had taken his brothers identity.. and so the thinking of ending things being suicide and his come down from delusion and accepting he will kill himself was a lot deeper and sadder than this like incel story. There were also really cool descriptions of a crime scene/ character between chapters that kept me interested and guessing what they meant to the main plot. And Lucy’s caller was a lot creepier and well implemented than the movie which made me :/

Could not agree more

Hey, it ain't for everybody. For me, it had moments.

@@oasis4031 books are always better than their movie adaptation tho.

Nice observation!!

Yes! I loved that part. She was so in it!

That’s because she turns into the woman in the diner from the film that Jake likes

I'm pretty sure it's Jake listening to a film critic on the radio. This makes further sense when she starts blowing raspberries and changing her accent, as if he's flipping through stations

@@TehGrahmmerNahzi No, she turned into Pauline Kael, the film critic who wrote the book that was in Jake's room. She literally quotes what Pauline Kael actually said in real life about the movie.

True

i was imagining it’s a snow plow

@@katiewhere makes sense.

One of the symptoms of hypothermia is called "paradoxical undressing" so maybe he did die.

@Troy Vick He does die in the book, I think. The entire story is told as he's deciding whether or not to kill himself, and then while he's dying. That's why it starts off fairly linear and cohesive, and then gradually falls apart and becomes more nightmarish