Connection between Kaufman's "I'm Thinking of Ending Things" and Woolf's "To the Lighthouse"
(SPOILERS FOR I'm THINKING OF ENDING THINGS) So in "To the Lighthouse", Lily Brisco is a painter, much like the lead in Kaufman's film, who paints landscapes but is trying to somehow depict interiority in the painting. It gave me to the lighthouse vibes during the scene in the film when Lucy was endlessly walking down the stairs and talking about how she thinks she is expected to exist as someone to make her boyfriend feel smart and feel like someone respected and whatnot, but the way it was worded felt so much like Woolf I was like "huh". Then I remembered the dinner scene where she talks about how she *is a painter who wants to depict an interiority in her paintings *. There's a scene in the novel where she has to show her painting (reluctant to do so I believe, much like movie protag) to the family. Almost everyone (not entirely men, but that's the takeaway here) basically is like somewhat polite but they keep asking her questions about what certa...