For more than two decades now, Charlie Kaufman has been examining the tricky wiring of the human mind in an eclectic yet tightly cohesive body of screen work ranging across several lauded screenplays and three more he directed himself.
His films are teasing puzzles marked by surreal detours and jarring rips in the fabric of reality. Even when dealing with depression, despair and mortality, Kaufman's more playful instincts have tended to ameliorate his obsessively cerebral side.
But his third feature as writer-director, I'm Thinking of Ending Things, is by far his bleakest, so steeped in suffocating anxiety it should come with a mental health advisory.
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