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'I was just thinking about how certain people, you know, can be very smart in a certain way. 'I was interested in intelligence a lot,' Reid says. It's in line with what Reid was preoccupied with when writing. Everything the Young Woman knows, Jake also knows. Jake has a copy of a Pauline Kael book in his bedroom.

Her argument about John Cassavetes' A Woman Under the Influence is the same as the critic Pauline Kael's. She shows Jake's parents her paintings, which are actually those of Tonalist landscape painter Ralph Albert Blakerock, whose posters she finds in Jake's basement. When the Young Woman sees a photo of Jake as a child, she thinks it's herself.

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I think the book and the movie are about questions more than answers.'Ī movie like I'm Thinking of Ending Things doesn't really exist to be solved, but Kaufman does plant clues that make these revelations almost obvious. 'I think he also never felt like it was about a twist. 'I loved what his vision was for the end,' Reid explains. In between chapters, the author offers unnamed voices describing a gruesome scene of suicide. Reid's references to Jake's true nature are more sinister. Kaufman offers almost mundane glimpses into this man's life as he methodically cleans the high school. She's the creation of her boyfriend, who in turn is also something of a construct: He's the younger, maybe idealized, version of the janitor who has appeared throughout the piece. Over the course of both the novel and the film, it becomes evident that the narrator does not really exist. What both versions of I'm Thinking of Ending Things share in the common is the ultimate twist, though Reid resists calling it that. 'I just felt like I wanted Charlie to have the freedom to do whatever he wanted to take the material and put it through his filter and write the movie he wanted,' Reid says. Author Iain Reid knew this when he initially got the call that Kaufman was interested in tackling his novel from 2016. He is the man who wrote Adaptation after all, a movie about 'Charlie Kaufman's' challenges writing a straightforward adaptation of a book. You know when Charlie Kaufman adapts a book you're not going to get a straightforward adaptation.

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