A Random Review of Everything Everywhere All At Once
I don’t know what to say about Everything Everywhere All At Once. My boyfriend and I picked Everything Everywhere All At Once for a movie night, having heard from various friends that the movie was amazing. It’s over 2 hours long and, although it has a slightly slow start, the ball starts rolling and nothing can stop it.
It’s Anarchy almost
Heck, I don’t even want to give this film a synopsis or anything like that. The movie is so chaotic that, despite watching it, I can’t really explain what was going on. The movie’s synopsis by actual reviewers kinda doesn’t… well, they don’t really properly describe Everything Everywhere All At Once. The best they do is describe the beginning of the movie, which is important
Honestly though, the trailers aren’t worth watching. It’s best to go in blind and join in on the chaos. The trailers for Everything Everywhere All At Once probably say a little too much. Just hanging on the edge of spoilers.
The Action Scenes were fun
Seriously, the fighting was excellent. Very creative. Part of the plot involves accessing parallel universes and borrowing knowledge from our alternate, parallel selves. But in order to do so, a person has to do something really strange, that they would never actually do. This could be anything from giving yourself 5 paper cuts, to saying “I love you” to your enemy and meaning it, to, well, uh, sticking things up your ass.
Despite how stupid that sounds, Everything Everywhere All At Once somehow makes it work flawlessly. There’s always a feeling of “what are they going to do next?” And it’s not just things like borrowing martial arts skills, they have to adapt and use whatever borrowed knowledge they are given.
I cried, a lot. Mostly at the end.
The last chapter basically shows everything and everywhere pulling itself back together all at once. And it includes a lot of familial discussion. While the highs and the action are great, the downs, the realizations, it’s all heartbreaking. It’s not just movie heartbreak though, these are problems that we fight every day. Evelyn is just trying to keep everything together and be a good mum, despite the multiverse conspiring against her.
Everything Everywhere All At Once did make me miss my mum. I felt that she could have been in the protagonist’s shoes, and that she lived a similar, messy existence. But it was also a movie that I think mum would have loved. She loved weird, chaotic stuff, and Everything Everywhere All At Once is basically a big swirling mess of chaotic energy, drama and dark comedy. But she would also relate to the movie in some way.
Either way, a great movie.
I would definitely recommend seeing Everything Everywhere All At Once. I don’t know if you’d enjoy the movie or not, it might make you sad too or it might be too chaotic or silly for some people. But I feel like Everything Everywhere All At Once touches on a lot of real life problems. We’re all exhausted, we are all trying to keep things together and we aren’t nice to each other. And that nothing really matters. But we have to make something out of nothing and be nice together, to both ourselves and others.
Really, at the end of the day, being nice to each other is a good goal to aim for.
