Normal Was a Myth: On ‘I’m Thinking of Ending Things’
by Nick Ripatrazone
Aug 31, 2020
3 minutes
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Sometime in the late 1980s, I found my family’s VHS copy of The Shining in the basement, and pushed play. The turquoise-colored opening credits rolled up the screen in silence. I knew there was supposed to be sound—I’d watched parts of the movie before on TV—but in this old recording, the yellow Volkswagen Beetle drove along Going-to-the-Sun Road in Montana’s Glacier National Park with only the cassette’s soft fuzz as soundtrack.
Then, a minute or so into the film, sound pierced
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