And pictures of baby Jake on the wall intermittently look a whole awful lot like baby Lucy. She keeps getting missed calls from "Lucy." The family dog won't stop shaking off non-existent water. And by the time dessert has been brought out, Lucy senses something's up. Harmless, based on first impressions, but totally strange. Jake's parents (Toni Collette and David Thewlis) almost immediately come across as strange. The blizzard quickly becomes the least of Lucy's concerns, though. Lucy needs to get home tonight to make it to work in the morning, and Jake initially commits to that tight timeline, too. And evidently family matters to him, because he'll navigate what looks like a developing blizzard for this dinner. it’s a uniquely human fantasy that things will get better, born, perhaps, out of a uniquely human understanding that they will not.”īut still, Lucy sees Jake as fine. When they finally arrive? "Everything has to die, that’s the truth. "I should be excited, looking towards the first of many-but I'm not," Lucy narrates early in their claustrophobic car ride. The two haven't been dating very long, but Lucy's inner thoughts already suggest they won't be dating much longer. Quantum physics student Lucy (Jessie Buckley) and her boyfriend Jake (Jesse Plemons) set out for rural Oklahoma farmland so she can meet his parents for the first time. while I'm Thinking of Ending Things was always going to be somewhat bizarre, the most perplexing thing about it may be calling it a "Netflix film." Prepare to hit play on the platform's oddest release to date. The fact that Kaufman finally opted to partner with a major streaming service means I'm Thinking of Ending Things theoretically has the potential to help the filmmaker find his biggest audience, too. Further Reading The Ars Technica science fiction bucket list-42 movies every geek must see
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