“I’m thinking of ending things” wasn’t really about his relationship, it was about him contemplating suicide. That part of it is a little unclear to me though. Considering Jake was sitting in his car for a very long time during a blizzard, it’s possible he froze to death. If the pig is dead, that must mean he’s dead, too, because he’s seeing the pig. He starts to lose it a little bit, he takes his clothes off, and he sees the dead pig he mentioned earlier. It really hits home when the old version of Jake, janitor Jake, leaves the high school and walks out into his car. But if Jake is imagining the girl, the phrase must mean something else. The whole movie, we’re meant to believe the girl is saying, “I’m thinking of ending things,” and she means she’s thinking of ending the relationship with Jake. The significance of the phrase “I’m thinking of ending things” Again, the Jake character is envisioning what his life with someone like her could have been. ![]() The viewer (and the janitor) watches the two lookalikes share a musical-style dance that goes through what their life could have been like. This is where the idea that the girl is made up is really hammered home. So what the hell was that whole dance sequence about? That’s because they didn’t! He made her up. It’s, like, the meanest way to interpret what happened between the two of them, and it makes it sound like they never even really dated. Then when he goes into the school and “Lucy” follows him, she tells the janitor a version of the night they met, and it’s totally different than the one she told his parents at dinner. So when she looks at the wall and sees a picture of herself, that makes sense, because it’s really Jake seeing a picture of *himself*. It’s like he’s trying on different versions of the girl to see what works best for him. One minute, she’s a student studying quantum physics, and the next, she’s a poet. ![]() He’s watching his life play out in front of him.Īnd notice how there are so many inconsistencies when Jake talks about the girl? Like, her name changes throughout the movie, and so does her job. From there, I assumed we were looking into the future from Jake’s perspective. I mean, I had a feeling it would connect somehow, but that was my first real clue. Before that, the janitor seemed pretty random. The first clue I got about Jake being the janitor was when “Lucy” went into the basement of the house and opened the washing machine to see a bunch of janitor uniforms. ‘I’m Thinking of Ending Things,’ Book vs.movie differences breakdown here.) Here goes nothing…. ![]() I didn’t read the book, which, from what I’ve heard, explains this conclusion a lot more clearly. Fair warning, I’m not an expert on this film and this is merely my interpretation of the ending. Before you’re like, “Excuse me?” I’ll do some explaining. Okay, I’m not sure the best way to get into this, so I’m just going to say it: Jake is the janitor, and the girl is a figment of his imagination. That brings us to… The “reveal” of the story For context, his parents’ house is in the middle of nowhere, on a farm, and it’s the middle of a snowstorm. So she’s starting to see things around her that make her think, Wait, what the hell is going on here? The boyfriend in question seems relatively unfazed. She opens a book of poems to a poem she could have sworn she wrote. “Lucy” looks at the wall and sees a picture of a child she’s pretty sure is herself. Meanwhile, we keep seeing footage of a random janitor in a high school, and that janitor seems to have no real connection to Jake or “Lucy.”īack at the house, things get even weirder. So basically, she’s watching them get both older and younger before her eyes. Not only is the dinner itself awkward, but afterward, as “Lucy” is walking through the house, Jake’s parents start to age up and then age back down. Like I mentioned, the movie follows an unnamed girl (who is sometimes called “Lucy,” but not all the time) when she goes to meet and have dinner with her new boyfriend Jake’s parents.
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