We're Finally Talking About Everything Everywhere All at Once
As the world has enlargened and media has separated into fashion, music, beauty— the other tabs you can click on for office— movies and TV shows become less and less seen. A waste of time if Marvel keeps being Marvel, and Love Island takes place in literally every country and city possible. Watching movies becomes a thing for those who don't have anything better to do. Yet, movies give you a feeling higher than helium. It is irreplaceable. Everything Everywhere All at Once is an irreplaceable film, and here's why.
If you did watch this film, we're sure you did one of two things. A, cried your eyes out because you relate to generational parental trauma. Or B, sat in the theatres after the film ended while, "This Is A Life" by Mitski and David Byrne played— a song to fill the silence and astonishment created by a film that explored all of the parts of your brain. Yeah, it was that good.
This film combines our most random thoughts, existential fears, and traumas. There is a motif throughout this film, and it looks like a bagel. Sorry, semi-spoiler. The bagel represents the inevitable process of life. And sometimes, it's unforgiving. For those that have made the most of it— it's incredible. But then some lost their footing and felt like they wasted their years on wrong partner choices and career plans. The Daniels find an accurate and extreme way to point out how our biggest worry is that our lives are pointless. It is so easy to give in to the thought. We could shrug our shoulders at the endless possibilities we have no control over. Yet, this film also reminds you how important it is to love through the chaos. Through our greatest disappointments, we are gifted with people who'll pull you away from the water when the crashes get too heavy. They'll support you, endure life with you, and with everything we've seen in the past two years — this reminder is something we all need.
Also, if you're a film nerd, this film rebirths the possibilities of what a film can be. With reprises and sequels becoming the neverending wash cycle of a film, you go to the movies bored — or not at all, because there isn't anything refreshing to see. So when you sit and watch something like Everything Everywhere All At Once, the innovation is a reminder of what created movies in the first place. And that anything, anywhere, happening all at once is a storyboard away from displaying in front of our eyes.
