//Kaufman Grapples with Dissociation Again in I’m Thinking of Ending Things

Kaufman Grapples with Dissociation Again in I’m Thinking of Ending Things

There’s a running situation (it can’t really be called a “gag”) in his 2008 film Synechdoche, New York that encapsulates the feeling present throughout Charlie Kaufman’s latest, I’m Thinking of Ending Things, adapted quite faithfully from the novel by Iain Reid. In the former film, one of the main character’s