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Warning: Navel gazing. Another reaction I had after researching interpretations of I’m Thinking of Ending Things (ITOET) was felling bad I didn’t come up with any of them. Which is not surprising - I have a lot of trouble interpreting complex works of art, being it paintings, books or movies. For example, I don’t understand poetry at all. If someone starts reciting poetry to me I’m completely unable to follow, although I listen to podcasts/audiobooks at 1....

I recently watched the movie I’m Thinking of Ending Things (ITOEF) - I understood none of it. I mean, it was beautiful, but I was unable to come up with any plausible interpretation of what was happening and I found the ones I read on the internet really non-obvious. This annoyed me: what’s the point of hiding the meaning so deep? If the director really wants to make an important point just make it more obvious!...