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I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020)

★ 6.6 · 2,174 ratings on TMDB

It stays, it sticks, it lingers.

I'm Thinking of Ending Things poster★ 6.6

Nothing is as it seems when a woman experiencing misgivings about her new boyfriend joins him on a road trip to meet his parents at their remote farm.

DirectorCharlie Kaufman
CastAbby Quinn, Anthony Grasso, Colby Minifie, David Thewlis, Gus Birney, Guy Boyd
GenresDrama, Mystery, Thriller
The emergence reading

I'm Thinking of Ending Things keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing identity, memory, consciousness.

zero-distanceUSidentitymemoryconsciousness
Also inFilms about memoryFilms about identity
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Same rung, same subject

Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.

Mirror (1975)E8 · consciousness, identitySolaris (1972)E8 · consciousness, identitySolaris (2002)E8 · consciousness, identityBliss (2021)E8 · consciousness, identityNirvana (1997)E8 · consciousness, identityWifelike (2022)E8 · consciousness, identity

Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

Frozen II (2019)E7/E9/E10 · rare rung · identity, memoryThe Animatrix (2003)E9/E12 · rare rung · consciousness, identityMars Express (2023)E9/E10 · consciousness, identity

Same people

Shared director or cast.

Anomalisa (2015)dir. Charlie KaufmanSynecdoche, New York (2008)dir. Charlie KaufmanHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)David ThewlisWonder Woman (2017)David ThewlisThe Sixth Sense (1999)Toni ColletteKnives Out (2019)Toni Collette