Charlie Kaufman’s First Movie in Years Is a Mind-Bender
Netflix’s <em>I’m Thinking of Ending Things </em>is presented as a psychological-horror drama, but it’s so much more.
“‘Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.’ That’s an Oscar Wilde quote.” So says the unnamed protagonist of in one of her many internal monologues. Only four major characters populate Charlie Kaufman’s new film, which debuts Friday on Netflix—a woman; her boyfriend, Jake; and his parents, whom she’s about to meet. But the strange conversations that drive
