

At that point, it is clear: The Janitor is Jake (played in the film by Jesse Plemons), and the story we have seen throughout the book/film is a story that he has been writing about a girl who he failed to talk to at a trivia night 30 years ago.

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In particular, they have been left confused by all the strange goings-on in the ending-the dream ballet from Oklahoma, for example, the cartoon pig with the maggots, or the final scene, when the Janitor's (played by Guy Boyd) car gets submerged in the snow.įor viewers of the Netflix movie who did not know what to make of the ending of I'm Thinking of Ending Things, things are a little more straightforward in the book the film is based on, written by Iain Reed.Īt the end of the 2016 novel, the body of the Janitor is found, alongside a bunch of notebooks that he has been writing in this whole time. I'm Thinking of Ending Things has now entered the Netflix charts, but not everyone has been overjoyed by the strange and surreal movie written and directed by Charlie Kaufman and starring Jessie Buckley and Jesse Plemons.
