When Charlie kaufman discovered the cinematographic possibilities of this novel, its author Iain Reid He wouldn't know without feeling flattered or trembling. Because an already unstructured work of suspense like his could reach incalculable levels of incomprehension and catapult him into the Olympus of "different" authors. Chuck Palahniuk. Another thing is that Netflix finally backs it all up and the matter already reaches an almost anticipated hit with cult moviegoers.
The notion of the mind as paradise or hell, as a place where that other self lives in the middle of a script capable of awakening paranoia or justified fear. A novel and a film that are hooked by that way of narrating everything as in a mosaic to compose. Nothing better to delve into psychopathy capable of leading to a strange existence on the edge of anything. The greatest surrealism is improvised violence, without any motivation ...
Synopsis
I'm thinking of quitting. Once this thought comes, it stays. It is always present. Always.
Jake and I have a real connection, a weird, intense attachment. How long have we ...? One month? I'm very attracted to him, even though he's not really handsome. I am going to meet his parents for the first time, at the same time that I am thinking of leaving him.
Jake once said that “Sometimes a thought is closer to the truth, to the reality, than an action. You can say anything, you can do anything, but you cannot fake a thought.
And what I'm thinking is that I don't want to be here.
I am thinking of quitting.
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