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Im thinking of ending things stills1/3/2024 ![]() ![]() You might remember from the film that Jake’s girlfriend repeatedly gets weird phone calls from an unknown man. Just a perfectly normal family dinner!!! Mary Cybulski/NETFLIX In the book, No Name has been dealing with an unidentified stalker. These conversations don’t take place in the film, making the janitor’s suicide (and true identity) far more subtle. He must have always been thinking of ending things for years. Oh, yes, and he was brilliant, could have been a scientist. It’s a death of the janitor who’s been there for years, who was always odd and quiet and kept to himself. They are horrified by something that happened at the high school. Throughout the novel, short chapters featuring two unnamed characters share bits of information. In the book, this reveal is much more obvious. ![]() But whether or not you deciphered that the janitor was Jake (although much older) depends on how closely you watched the film. ![]() The book features two unidentified witnesses who reveal what happened.īy the end of Kaufman’s film, we have some degree of understanding about what horror took place at the high school: The janitor killed himself. In order to make sense of the movie’s ending, you’ll need to understand what the director changed from the book. Reid’s book follows the same premise and a similar storyline, but Kaufman’s film vastly expands the material. If you can believe it, that’s when the crazy stuff really starts. She and Jake hop back in the freezing car, drive for a while, stop for ice cream, then stop to throw away the uneaten ice cream at Jake’s old high school. She finds Jimmy’s ashes, even though he was definitely just downstairs, right? Finally, she demands they leave. No Name moves throughout the house and encounters different versions of Jake’s parents at different ages. ![]()
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