Denkt denn - außer Möwe - keiner von euch an Selbstmord?

Yes.

I also (past tense:) read it as 1) “suicide,” 2) (after reading Sources) “ending the relationship.” The stress at the final two words of the sentence is on “ending.”

One  m i g h t  just squeeze the sense outlined in #4 out of it but then both “ending” and “things” would need to be stressed equally—it would be an unusual way of expressing the idea behind “things that end.”

Denkt denn - außer Möwe - keiner von euch an Selbstmord?

Doch, zu 50 Prozent - und zu 50 Prozent an "Schluss machen". Ohne Kontext kann es beides bedeuten, und genau damit wird gespielt.

@ Thirith:

Ich habe in #4 aber auch dezidiert "Meine Gedanken beim Fadentitel" geschrieben, und die Frage war daher auch, ob die entsprechende Interpretation grundsätzlich möglich ist.

Ob das im Zusammenhang mit der Filmhandlung - die ich nicht kenne, nicht nachgeforscht habe und zu der die Angaben in #0 nicht umfänglich genug sind, um eine endgültige Aussage zu treffen - und auf Grund der Art und Weise, wie der Satz dort betont ist, auch tatsächlich einen Sinn ergibt, wäre dann in einem 2. Schritt zu klären.

ich fände eine solche (rein sprachliche) Interpretation nicht grundsätzlich unmöglich, aber ziemlich unidiomatisch. 

Sehe ich auch so.

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Mein spontaner Gedanke war auch "Selbstmord", weil ich beim Beenden der Beziehung eher "ending it" oder "ending this" erwarten würde. "things" finde ich auch nicht völlig komisch, wäre aber in dieser Bedeutung nicht mein erstes Wort der Wahl.

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I quite quickly saw it as having the meanings of suicide and ending a relationship -- but I don't remember which came to me first. Using "ending things" to mean "finite things" or "things that end" simply isn't idiomatic in English.

From a review of the film:

The title of i’m thinking of ending things is a double entendre, though hardly of the erotic variety. It means both what you initially think—suicide—yet also, more prosaically, it refers to the relationship between a young woman (Jessie Buckley) and her boyfriend of some seven weeks, Jake (Jesse Plemons). As the movie begins they’re en route, through a blizzard, to meet his parents for the first time at their isolated farmhouse, but she’s increasingly convinced she should call it quits.

zu #11

I'm thinking of ending things

One m i g h t just squeeze the sense outlined in #4 out of it but then both “ending” and “things” would need to be stressed equally—it would be an unusual way of expressing the idea behind “things that end.”

In diesen Filmausschnitten wechselt die Betonung, was eine Dreideutigkeit nicht völlig ausschließen lässt.

Edit:

Hab kurz recherchiert. I'm thinking of ending things ist kein Wordsworthzitat. Wordsworths Ode Intimations_of_Immortality spielt anscheinend eine Rolle im Dialog des Paares:

[film] Plot

A young woman contemplates ending her approximately seven-week relationship with her boyfriend Jake while on a trip to meet his parents at their farm. During the drive, Jake attempts to recite a poem he read when he was younger, "Ode: Intimations of Immortality", and asks the young woman to recite an original poem of hers to pass time. After she recites a morbid poem about coming home,[a] they arrive at the farmhouse owned by Jake's parents. Jake takes her to the barn, where he recounts a story about how the farm's pigs died after being eaten alive by maggots.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I'm_Thinking_of...

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:

The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star,

Hath had elsewhere its setting,

And cometh from afar:

Not in entire forgetfulness,

And not in utter nakedness,

But trailing clouds of glory do we come

From God, who is our home:

Heaven lies about us in our infancy!

Shades of the prison-house begin to close

Upon the growing Boy,

But He beholds the light, and whence it flows,

He sees it in his joy

(aus Intimations of Immortality)

Die Vergänglichkeit (Endlichkeit) des Körpers und die Unvergänglichkeit (Unendlichkeit) der Seele scheinen auf literarische Weise in den Filmstoff eingewoben zu sein.

Nachtrag

Es gibt zwei mögliche Funktionen von ending im Satz:

a) I'm thinking of ending things

gerund

b) I'm thinking of ending things

participle

--> vgl. #4 (ungewöhnlich, aber nicht unmöglich, vgl. auch #25)