Netflix's I'm Thinking Of Ending Things Ending EXPLAINED

7. How The Couple Really Met

I'm Thinking of Ending Things
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If you’re paying attention while watching this film (which you’ll need to be to fully understand what’s going on), you’ll notice that details about the woman subtly change throughout. Not only does her name change three times, her occupation fluctuates just as frequently. However, there’s another detail that changes: how the couple met.

When the story is first told by the woman at the family dinner, she tells of how the pair hit it off at a pub trivia night. But this is a complete fabrication. The couple never met, and we get the truth of what really happened when the woman confronts the janitor. “I’m not even sure I registered him”, she tells him about the night they never met. “He was a creeper…It’s like asking me to describe a mosquito that bit me on an evening 40 years ago.”

The novel goes into slightly more detail into what happened on that faithful night where nothing happened. Jake saw the woman at the pub trivia night but was too scared to give her his number or talk to her, so he began to write his own alternative narrative about what could have been if he did.

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