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“Charlie Kaufman's film "I'm Thinking of Ending Things" was released in 2020.”
Reliable film databases, trade coverage, review aggregators, and Netflix’s own materials all show that Charlie Kaufman’s "I’m Thinking of Ending Things" came out in 2020. The only nuance is that it had a limited theatrical release in late August 2020 and a Netflix release on September 4, 2020. That does not affect the year-level claim.
“In Iain Reid's novel "I'm Thinking of Ending Things," the final section set at Jake's old high school is shorter, more claustrophobic, and more direct than the corresponding final section in the film adaptation.”
The comparison is only partly supported. Available sources strongly back the idea that the novel’s high-school ending is more claustrophobic and more direct than the film’s, but they do not establish that it is shorter; one source suggests the opposite by describing the book’s final school section as 50+ pages. That unsupported length claim changes the overall takeaway.
“In Charlie Kaufman's film adaptation "I'm Thinking of Ending Things," the high school sequence near the end is extended into a long surreal ballet sequence.”
The film’s ending does expand the high-school sequence into a prominent surreal “dream ballet.” Multiple independent descriptions of the finale, along with composer interviews about creating the ballet sequence, support that reading. The only notable caveat is that “long” is subjective, but the sequence is clearly extended enough for the claim’s core point to hold.