

But I think that there's a lot of things at play when people first start to see each other, and start to get involved romantically. You've explored this in other movies like “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.” What’s your viewpoint on romantic love? It's not a happy perspective on a relationship.

Your exploration of what relationships are and what romance can be is interesting.
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“I can't really talk about what is revealed in the movie because I think that's the experience of watching it. It feels uncomfortable to watch and they're uncomfortable with each other. This couple has a very awkward connection or a lack of connection. Jessie Buckley as Young Woman in “I’m Thinking Of Ending Things.” Photo by Mary Cybulski/Netflix © 2020 But the specifics of the different professions and stuff, it’s not in the book.” So it's from her point of view, which we kind of maintained in the movie. But yes, the premise is that she is somewhat enigmatic. Is that from the novel - a vague character? She is a scientist, an artist, a waitress. It’s sort of unclear who she is, she’s hard to pin down.” She is unnamed, played by Jessie Buckley and she seems to have a lot of different facets to her personality and to her experience in the world. Can you describe the two characters as the audience first meets them in the car?Ĭharlie Kaufman: “The man is named Jake, played by Jesse Plemons, and he is maybe somewhat awkward, maybe too accommodating. KCRW: “I’m Thinking of Ending Things” is what the young woman says to herself in the car, referring to the relatively new relationship. Kaufman’s movie is called “I’m Thinking of Ending Things,” and it’s adapted from a novel by Iain Reid. Most of the movie shows them talking in the car. Two characters, a boyfriend and girlfriend, go on a road trip to visit his parents. In his latest work, he takes that brain trip again while he’s on a real trip. “Being John Malkovich,” “Adaptation,” “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” have been praised for their inventiveness and their winding trips into the brain. In Charlie Kaufman’s films, he explores the act of creating a movie or a theater production or a relationship.
