I’m Thinking of Ending Things

If “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” was a failed attempt at conveying why an incompatible duo would care so much for each other, “Things” represents a good version of “Sunshine”, the man being a doormat that thinks quoting David Foster Wallace makes him smart (really) and the woman practically transforming into another person in mid-conversation to show that she is too smart for him and both wanting anything besides confronting their twilight years alone, probably. “Ending” finds gold in its abstractions, enough that I found myself wishing things were even less tangible. The best film of 2020 so far.

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