After watching Adaptation I thought it about time to watch Charlie Kaufman's latest movie I'm Thinking of Ending Things. This is a head-melter of a movie and I'm really surprised but very glad, to see something this experimental as a Netflix original and I hope to see more of the same.
Even for Kaufman this is abstract, much more "Synecdoche" than "Eternal Sunshine", without much in the way of a linear narrative. The first half hour or so starts off fairly normal but it then gradually descends into a sort of existential nightmare with an unsettling undercurrent of dread and rising anxiety, before becoming completely abstract and interpretive towards the end.
I won't for a second pretend that I completely understood it, but I sort of got the impression that comprehension isn't really the point and this can still be very much enjoyed as a work of abstract art capturing and visualising the dark recesses of the human mind in a way that only Charlie Kaufman can do. This isn't a film for everyone, but if you like his other films then this is definitely worth watching.
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