Though time is everything, time does not care for us. In this year’s unlikely Netflix release, I’m Thinking of Ending Things, the looming threat of time is not only troubling, but downright terrifying. From Synecdoche, New York to Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, he employs it as a device to remind us that our existence is fleeting and that everything, including our sincere attempts at human connection, is meaningless in the grander scheme of things. Charlie Kaufman, whose work is defined by recurrent existential themes and absurdist humour, is obsessed with it. Our sense of it is also widely subjective. Time is everything it shapes our understanding of the universe, our relationships with others, as well as with ourselves. We wish we could do anything but to acknowledge the passing of it. At other points, it goes by unbearably slowly. Sometimes it goes by so fast, we flip our calendar pages only to find that it’s inexplicably September naturally, we refuse to believe it. Holed up in our homes – in most cases our childhood ones – we seem to have lost our reins on time. Which are aging, loneliness, losing your mind, and falling apart.” – Charlie Kaufman, The AtlanticĮverything is a little bit … off this year. I bring it back to the things you said I find scary. “I’m not going to have a cat jump out I’m not going to have music or editing unless I can subvert them into something else.
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