Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
Genre: Adventure/Sc-fi Time: 2h 20mins Directors: Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert
Quick Summary: A Chinese immigrant gets unwillingly embroiled in an epic adventure where she must connect different versions of herself in the parallel universe to stop someone who intends to harm the multiverse.
It is brilliant, fabulous, exhilarating, and heartbreaking. It's truly incredible! It has so many themes and ideas, layers and layers together, it's so clever. This is one of the most unique, exciting and outright insane films I've seen, packed with incredible action, yet underpinned by an intensely emotional story.
It throws realism out the window, replacing it instead with playful silliness. The screenplay is smart and keeps the viewer on their toes though even though there has to be some explaining to do for the rules of the story world, it’s brushed upon in just the right moments through the characters’ reactions and dialogue, making it fairly easy to understand while also expanding upon the concept itself and keeping the pacing at top speed.
The great pleasures of this film come from the bizarre imagination with which the writer-director team of Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert has to bring this set-up to life. The alternative worlds here range from not-so-different to insanely weird and the embrace of absurdity is part of cosmology’s “verse-jumping” methodology. It’s a wild tonal ride, from cartoonish ultraviolence to plaintive whimsy. For all the goofily surprising, high-octane action, this is at heart a character piece. The Main character's family’s life is ordinarily cluttered, demanding and disappointing, fraught with intergenerational miscommunication, resentment, guilt, fear, failure and regret.
It manages to explore a lot of topics and Emotiontions are highly impressive. It really tugs at the heartstrings at times, and I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people found at least something to relate to in this film.
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