Charlie Kaufman is a genius, a heretic. The viewing experience of this movie is very similar to watching "Mulholland Drive" for the first time (and then watched it 4 times), it turns out that the movie can be shot like this...
The superficial story of this film is very ordinary. The male protagonist Jack took his girlfriend back to the countryside to visit his parents on a snowy night. Later, he bought ice cream at an ice cream shop on the way back, and finally went to his alma mater middle school. The superficial story is not afraid of spoilers, but the deep story of the movie is completely different from being weird and thrilling (no spoilers here). I think it should be compared to "Life and Death". It's a pity that "Life and Death" is too commercialized. Compared with this film, it seems superficial and pediatric.
The whole film of "I Want to End It All" involves too many fields, poetry, novels, paintings, dances, movies (film criticism), psychology (Jung), sociology, physics... and the combination of all these shows The form that comes out is of course literature, Kaufman is mean and sharp, a big bookworm.
What moved me the most was the poem "Bone Dog" that appeared in the movie (the female protagonist's acting skills in the whole poem were simply amazing...) and the pas de deux at the end of the movie, which was breathtaking.
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