It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.

Do you believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?

We may be true with the past, but the past is not through with us.

Welcome back to The Next Picture Show, a movie of the week podcast devoted to a classic film in the way it's shaped our thoughts on a recent release.

I'm Tasha Robinson here again with Scott Tobias.

And once again, we have a film spotting SVU and Dissolve Veteran and Screen Crush writer and editor Matt Singer here with us, substituting in for absent friends, Genevieve Koski, and Keith Phipps. Welcome to The Scorch, Matt. Thanks for having me back, guys. Oh, wait, now I'm old me. Oh, now I'm young me. Which me am I? Oh, my God. Too many mees, and I can't tell which one is the one that we should be talking to. Are any of these

use smarter about film than any of the rest of them? Let's hope so. Otherwise, we are in for a long

conversation. Well, we usually are. In our last episode, we looked back at Spike Jones,

being John Malkovich, the surreal 1999 feature about love among famous actors and body thieves.

It's also the first produced screenplay from Charlie Kaufman at the time, TV, the surreal 1999 feature about love among famous actors and body thieves.

It's also the first produced screenplay from Charlie Kaufman, at the time, a TV writer.

After being John Malkovich became a modest hit, Kaufman went on to script the movie's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Adaptation.

But then he branched out into directing his own work, with 2008's Schenectady, New York,

2015's Anomalisa, and now the new film

I'm Thinking of Ending Things, starring Jesse Buckley as Lucia, a young painter who's contemplating

breaking up with her solicitous boyfriend Jake, played by Jesse Plumman's, even as she's headed

out into deep farm country with him in a snowstorm to meet his gawky, awkward parents, played by David Theulis

and Tony Collette. Except, wait, is any of that plot description actually true? We're given

several different names for Lucia and several different job descriptions. When she sits down to

dinner with Jake's mom and dad, things keep changing, her hair and clothes, subtle details like a

bandage on Theuleus's face,

and eventually much larger things, like Jake's parents' age and his relationship to them.

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