>There's only one question to resolve. I'm scared. I feel a little crazy. I'm not lucid. The assumptions are right. I can feel my fear growing. Now is the time for the answer. Just one question. One question to answer.
Did you see it?
Do you think it did a good job at capturing loneliness?

I haven't talked to anyone besides my mom in 6 years. No idea how loneliness feels. Sounds like a woman thing

>>81535269
You still have your mom, that's nice. Godspeed anon.

>>81535297
Thank you anon. She's a bit shizo but very kind to me. I hope you find fulfilment in life

>>81535227 (OP)
didn't like it. Specially not that part where he sings at the end. I wanted more mind fuckery like the awkward dinner table or the dog that doesn't stop shaking. Instead I got old people dying from Alzheimer's

>>81535353
I found the ending resonant, he loses (or lets go of) his fantasy of the one girl he couldn't let go for seemingly the majority of his life, and in the end he imagines himself an entire audience instead just to not feel forgotten in his death (which he essentially will be, in the reality of the film). He compares himself to the pig his father forgot about too, which is a nice hint of how the rest of the world is in relation to him (he essentially exists to noone).
Loved the family scene too, but I found it to be him reflecting on the similarities between how his parents' and his own final days went. There's also that one scene where he's imagining younger Jake kissing the girl in the car, and he gets freaked out by the idea that all of that is going on in the mind of himself as an old, creepy man. That scene especially really fucked with me.

>>81535227 (OP)

One of my favorite movies. Good taste. You'd like tom ford's nocturnal animals.

>>81535624
Seen it. Loved it. The ending was also incredible, I fully knew what was going to happened and it still fucked me up.
Cheers, anon. Say, are you a fan of Lars von Trier? You might enjoy
>Europa
>Breaking The Waves
>Melancholia
Those are the three I would reccomend for starting out with him.

>>81535694

I haven't heard of him but I'll check those out. Probably tonight. Thanks.

>>81535227 (OP)
>Coming home is terrible
>Whether the dogs lick your face or not
>Whether you have a wife, or just a wife-shaped loneliness waiting for you
>Coming home is terribly lonely
Love how she looks directly at the camera by the end of the poem. I love little touches like that.

>>81535227 (OP)
I liked it, although some sections lost me. When the gf assumes the mannerisms of a movie critic (?) and starts monologuing in the car, for instance. It was clearly a commentary on something, but I have no idea what and didn't really care enough to find out.

The lambasting of oscar bait film making was funny - the dig at A Beautiful Mind near the end made me laugh.

I also think the departures from the book were justified. In the book, the bf is revealed to have been a killer in addition to imagining much of the story; I think that cheapens the narrative and boils it down to being just a surreal mystery novel. While the movie hints at something dark in his past, it never overtly addresses what that might be, and instead focuses its attention on themes of loneliness and isolation. I think that was a wise call.

>>81536981
>While the movie hints at something dark in his past
This was done so subtly that I'm not sure I picked up on all of it. Some /tv/ anon had a theory that he raped the girl with the rash which I think is really stupid, I thought him having the rash on his hand as he pays for the ice cream symbolized both him and the girl being weird outcasts but it might be something else entirely.
What was with the scratches on tho basement door, it's kind of implied it's not from the dog?

On the gf turning into a movie critic, I learned somewhere that what she's actually reciting in that scene is a real Pauline Kael review of "A Woman Under the Influence" which was published in a collection that's shown as one of the items in Jake's old bedroom. It's something he has re-read many times, and seemingly disagrees with, but can't explain why so he just impotently tries to defend the film he identifies with, yet gives in at the end. Kinda ties in with this dialogue earlier in the film I think:
>I suppose I watch too many movies.
>Societal malady.
>Fill my brain with lies to pass the time.
also I just love how the reference to the film keeps going after the part with the review, as after Jake's "silver lining" monologue his gf quotes the film
>Platitudes, all! Shut up, Mabel! Sit down, Mabel!
which just shows he has the film close to his heart, same as with other art he loves, he needs to convey it through the illusion of another person loving it with him.
Even w/o getting the references though, the actors just deliver it so perfectly it's beautiful to watch.

>>81535724
hope you enjoyed any one of them you watched!
also bump

>>81535227 (OP)
I thought it was OK. I like Synecdoche way better in regards to Kaufman films. I don't remember anything from I'm Thinking of Ending Things and I remember every scene from Synecdoche.

>>81538056
You better fucking believe I love that film to death as well, my favorite "smash-hit comedy".
>every scene
Could you recount the name of the black ex-convict Little Winky died at the hands of without looking it up?

>>81538183
>>81538056
If you guys like these sorts of movies and haven't heard of it yet, I think you'd really appreciate Love Liza. Absolutely soul crushing, but an incredible movie.