im thinking of ending things movie explained

Talking to USA Today, Kaufman explained why he decided against using the book's 'very, very violent ending'. It's a slight change to the book it's based on which is more overt about the fact that the Janitor kills himself, after he 'kills' Lucy to stop thinking about what might have been. As with the other pop culture references in the movie, it's something that Jake has seen (we see a DVD of it earlier) and then used in his fantasies, like the poem Lucy recites (which we see in a book in his room). If the speech sounds familiar, it's because it's lifted from the end of Ron Howard's A Beautiful Mind. We see an elderly Jake receive an award after a 'long, fruitful life' as a physicist, with Lucy in the crowd to support him as he tells her: 'You are the reason I am. The Janitor then walks out into his car during the blizzard and likely freezes to death in the car, even though we see him walking away with an animated pig for one final fantasy. 'I was always intrigued by it, because it's so creepy, and I liked the idea of the doppelgänger aspect in it.' 'There's a few things in Oklahoma! that felt like they were really kind of thematically parallel to the story that we were telling,” Kaufman told IndieWire. It's a similar dance to one seen in Oklahoma!, a musical that crops up throughout the movie. The Janitor then sees another version of Jake and Lucy sharing a romantic dance and getting married, before a version of the Janitor interrupts it and kills Jake as that's how he views his life (metaphorically). Maybe it was just, I think it was just one of thousands of such non-interactions in my life.'

It's really Jake giving a worst-case scenario critique of himself, a version of that night where he's a 'creeper': The finale of the movie sees Jake and 'Lucy' get to the high school where she meets the Janitor and she gives a harsh account of the night they met. Jake is trying to imagine that there was a way his life could have panned out for the better, but he just can't, as even in his imagination Lucy is planning to break up with him.

'The lie of it all… That it's going to get better, that it's never too late, that God has a plan for you, that age is just a number, that it's always darkest before the dawn, that every cloud has a fucking silver lining. And you've made so many wrong turns,' he reflects. Like feeling old, like your body is going, your hearing, your sight.

Im thinking of ending things movie explained