this film really disturbed me, it was just so surreal and strange. charlie kaufman is a fucking genius (genus)

Finally a full version of that song on YT! Just watched the movie just to see it again

The woman who jumps when he says “all a pack of lies” is the best part. 😂

This is one of the best films I’ve seen in the last 5 years

_SPOILERS_ There's a kid named Jake. He goes to a high school and he likes a girl. But she doesn't like him back. He can't muster the courage to go and speak to her. So he graduates high school, but before he can even begin, he drops out of college. Afterward, he winds up being employed as a janitor at the same school he went to all that time ago. He's lonely and it hurts him to be lonely. Years drag on and he still does his job, but he's still lonely. Now he's old, and he has no one. So he decides that he won't stay. He does his job for the time he has, but once he's finished, it will all end. All the while, as he's making his plans through his shifts, he runs something different through his head. He imagines how it might've been had he had the guts to talk to the girl. He imagines taking her out one night to meet his folks, maybe even make it official while they're there. But there's a problem with his fantasy; his mind is deteriorating, slowly rotting away. So the details are not exactly concrete. Her name keeps changing. Her job keeps changing. How they met is inconsistent. The parents seem to get younger and older all at once. People finish conversations before they have the _chance_ to finish. People repeat themselves again and again. They wind up one spot in the home and then another in the blink of an eye. Eventually he imagines the young Jake and the woman in the high school, feeling he now has the opportunity to speak to her. Finally he will know what really happened when she met Jake. It's not what he hoped for. She tells him nothing happened, that there were no sparks between them. They never even spoke. She tells him that Jake was just plain creepy, just staring at her. Feeling uncomfortable by his being there, she just left. Unhappy with himself, he goes out to his truck in the snow and sits in the cold, bare as he was the day of his birth. As he's out there, a rotting hog leads him back inside, tells him he's got something big tonight, that he needs to get ready for. Once there, he claims his Nobel. What exactly for he doesn't know or care; he's just happy he won something. He sings his big solo number. Everyone he knew is there watching, old and not old all at once. Finished with his act, the audience applauds. He's given a standing ovation. He smiles. His eyes well up. Finally he's loved. Finally he doesn't feel alone. Finally he's happy. Thus, out there in his truck, engine off, body bare, with this perfect scene playing as it should, finally feeling love, happier than he had ever been, _he falls asleep._

This scene broke my heart 😢 💔 great movie 👌

I can't believe I completely forgot I watched this movie, I was vaguely reminded of this scene a few days ago and remembered this film haha

I gotta call my folks

Give Jesse an Oscar already. Both Jesse’s

I'm still not entirely sure what the message of this movie was (though I have some ideas), but I can't help but feel this overwhelming since of grief and lamentation in this part. A little difficult to follow, but a masterpiece in my opinion.

underappreciated !

How the fuck does this have 23k views this is the most haunting ending a movie has ever had

A horror film about loneliness

god this is so beautiful

I tried to find this scene by typing in the name of the film and youtube gave me a suicide warning

This is cinema baby

"Everyone dies alone"

I love this scene but it feels like I'm missing some deeper meaning. Or is it just played straight? In other words, is Jake just singing some song from a random musical in which the character expresses the same emotions he's feeling?

Male loneliness is just so utterly soul destroying. A woman eventually finds the courage to speak up about it, but in most cases for the other it just doesn’t happen.

So I’ve literally watched this movie more times than I can count and this scene has never played for me I’m confused

it cut off

This movie have made me wanting to see Oklahoma, but what I've seen of adaptations in youtube, it's quite an stupid and bad musical. Doce anyone know why they used Oklahoma in this film, and if there are any good verisions of it? This scene, and the whole movie is so unbelievably good and overwhelmingly devastating