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Everything Everywhere All at Once! EEAAO for the purists. One of my favorite movies from last year, obviously there are some haters. But they clearly haven't seen Jamie Lee Curtis kiss Michelle Yeoh while winning an award. So lets SILENCE THEM! Jk. Here's everything right with Everything Everywhere All at Once!
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Waymond is first seen in the little mirror because he represents what’s missing from Jobu Tobaki’s universe; kindness and love. He is the bagel’s hole.
The pupil of the googly eye.
But If we look closely we see that the bagel hole has a hole in its center - it is not a bagel hole at all but a smaller bagel with its own hole, and our bagel is not whole at all!
You're a bagels hole.
@@glendarjj3991 It's the hole inside the donut hole! Wait, wrong movie...
@@thatcarlchick7655 shame on you for referencing the wrong movie.
It's like leaving a gun on the table and switching off the lights!
From what I've heard, a team of 7 people did ALL of the effects, and in adobe premier pro. This movie is insane and completely shatters most modern cinema.
Yes, it's true. This Academy-Award-Winning Film had 7 people in total create 95% of the visual effects working on their laptops from home during the pandemic. No armies of 100 VFX artists from 10 studios each. No MCU or DC waste of money on VFX. Goes to show how clever, concise writing can be just as effective (or even more so) as films that cost 10 times more.
@@tescherman3048 yes and the fact they learned how to do the cgi from yt tutorials for free. a team of 7 rookie cgi people who learned from free tutorials made better looking effects than a multi billionare company *ahem, marvel, ahem*
@@nathanmom1045 Imagine if Marvel and A24 collaborated.
@@nathanmom1045 they weren't really rookies when they made this movie, they used the tutorials years before it was made
@@q-miiproductions878 marvel would bring them down tbh lol
Very sad for Stephanie that she was the only main cast member not recognised by the academy just a shame there’s not enough awards to give this incredible movie
Yeah she was magnificent in this ❤
If anything she most definitely deserved an award and I was baffled that she didn't get one at all
She got _robbed_ of Best Supporting Actress for this movie
To add insult to injury the person that won against her was her castmate Jamie Lee Curtis that has a fun performance but much Les nuanced and interesting.
@@user-ht5ce2it3z she is the bigger name it is the Oscar’s so it’s not surprising
So I have a friend who is almost physically incapable of shutting up during movies. It’s hard to watch anything with her, even though I know it’s not an act of malice where she wants to be annoying- she just always has a lot to say about every little thing and can’t help herself!
Anyway, one day I watched this movie, and of course I LOVED it. Some time later, me and the friend I mentioned were trying to figure out what to do while we were hanging out. So I said, “hey, we should watch EEAAO! I think you’ll really like it.”
She said “oh, yeah, sure, we can watch it again!”
To which I was like, “wait, what do you mean again?” And she responded, “I mean, I was there with you when we first watched it together, remember?”
And, yeah, that’s when I remembered that she was, indeed, sitting right next to me while we watched it that first time. That’s when it clicked for both of us: she was SO ENRAPTURED by the movie when we first watched it that *she didn’t say a word the entire time, and I FORGOT SHE WAS THERE.*
So yeah, TLDR, you know a movie is good when it manages to get your friend who never stops talking during movies to shut up and pay attention. As prestigious an award as “my dad watched the whole thing without falling asleep halfway through.”
maybe your friend has adhd? and being so overstimulated by the chaos of the movie helped them to concentrate, my bsf has adhd and she needs overstimulation to concentrate so they reminded me of her, she also talks while watching stuff with me, well, she talks all the time lol but I love that
@@Alex-wy9qw oh yeah definitely, she's not officially diagnosed but speaking as someone who has both adhd and autism I am 1000% certain she and I are in the same boat. (personally, I'm a pacer or leg bouncer when it comes to needing stimulation)
your friend is like me fr
This is why I loved the era of streaming and early access. You can watch whatever new movie from the comfort of your home, pausing and discussing the movie as you please. Laugh loudly or whatever
@@maggsmarineverdancy7262 I have adhd, I usually like to talk when I'm watching films with my friends. But in theaters, I usually keep quiet. The last thing I want is to ruin the theater experience of those around me.
its wonderful how we go from "nothing matters, life sucks" to "nothing matters, so lets enjoy life". incredible
Right? I love the positive nihilism of this film. Nothing matters inherently, so we get to choose to love it anyway, we get to imbue meaning
@@legendswarble2845 I feel like the message they try to sell is rather: "Nothing matters, so why not choose to make everything matter?" Or maybe "If nothing matters at all, then everything matters just the same"
Which is why I love how at the end Michelle's character decides to pay attention to every single thing [no matter how big or small] and stops to appreciate it instead of just trying to get it over with
@@legendswarble2845 People tend to like the idea of this philosophy when couched within a stable societal framework, but nobody seems to stop to consider the implications of it. At least Nietzsche was consistent about it
@@legendswarble2845 Technically im pretty sure its "Absurdism" which is basically that as a philosophy. "So what if nothing matters? That just is all the reason more to just dance in the rain and enjoy life."
@@inanis5888 They definitely used a lot of absurdism in the film, but that whole "nothing matters and it's a good thing" is positive nihilism
"In another life, I would have really liked just doing laundry and taxes with you." Such a simple line, but it shows that CEO Waymond realises what he finds to be truly important in life... Namely, his Family and Loved Ones.
What is it?
@@nanashi7779 doing laundry and taxes
@@nanashi7779 spending time with the one he loves
@@atomic_wink813 How interesting
As good as that line is, I'm already in tears by the time he says it. The thing that breaks me every time is "but somehow... this feels like it's all my fault". Like, movie's all "don't mind me while I just stab your unexplored relationship trauma"
To clarify: Evelyn absolutely does become a nihilist at the end of the film, it’s just a positive nihilism to contrast Jobu’s negative nihilism. It’s a really great display of the duality of the entire philosophy.
I think ascribing Nihilism to it is a bit reductive, like its Nihilistic in a western sense but in the grand scheme of things falls pretty heavily on the Eastern side of philosophy, meaning that nothing really matters but you can and should still choose love and life and family to give yourself meaning in an absurd reality. (Still think your totally right tho, just wanted to add on)
Positive is much better than negative. I totally prescribe to it. Just enjoy life and stop stressing and getting triggered by everything in life
@@maluse227you just reduced it too. Just in a way you like.
The amount of heart in this film is crazy . The fact you can go to buttplugs and raccoons and a heartfelt performance in the span of 10 minutes makes it so one of a kind.
Rick and Morty could learn a thing or two from this
It fits too, the universe is absolutely absurd and the movie isn’t afraid of that.
Gotta love movies that aren't afraid to be silly and absurd.
I can't believe this movie has its version of Ratatouille with a raccoon, a universe with hotdogs for fingers and Jamie Lee Curtis as a wrestler, and it actually works. It's brilliant.
“He knows too much!”
And it’s nominated for best picture.
@@hotdog8109 It needs to win.
I mean, Taika could take a lesson or two out of this...
@@henrikanchelia64 Taika can definitely make controlled chaos work, he proved as much with Jojo Rabbit, but Love and Thunder was an example of chaos gone out of control. The story beats were there, they were just buried under way too much badly timed jokes while serious moments were happening.
Waymond's speech about him seeing the good in things being not naivete, but "strategic and necessary" and a survival tool made me feel so seen.
Incredible movie.
It made me jealous, in a non malignant way...
I wish I could be like that.
My favourite line in almost any movie I've ever seen. It's exactly how I've chosen to live my life, to be kind not because I don't know better, but because I do. This line slayed me
@@Szokynyovics To be fair, it takes a _LOT_ of willpower to practice and maintain that mindset.
I think so long as we don't conflate Waymond's silver linings optimism with toxic positivity, we, too, could end up being a Waymond of our own universe.
Tbf tho, not even Waymond can do it all by himself. He needs company, support, and love just like the rest of us, which is why I think he fights so hard to be nice in the face of every unknown that's happening everywhere, sometimes all at once. It's the only way he knows how to live, let alone survive.
HE IS JUST LIKE I WANT TO BE
That was something I learned and internalized when I was out of work and near dead-broke. I _had_ to believe that things would get better, see the good in things, because the alternative is _MUCH_ worse.
"All the power in the multiverse and Joy still wanted her mom" is such a great statement and I had never thought about it that way before. Started crying a bit when you said that lol
What absolutely broke me for this film was when i learned Ke Huy Quan gave it his all for this film because of him having doubts for himself about his Previous roles. When you watch his golden globes acceptance speech you can't help but shed a tear. In the words of my friend: "i'm so glad his career got the second wind he deserves"
Adding to the great line, “In another life, I would have really liked just doing laundry and taxes with you,” it eventually cuts to Waymond humming and sweeping the laundromat. Essentially, it confirms that he TRULY IS just happy doing laundry and taxes with Evelyn. So, so cool and beautifully executed.
he actually says "I would CHOOSE to do taxes and open a laundromat"
@@BethesdaCakeDelivery actually 🤓🤓🤓
@@BethesdaCakeDelivery. But the emotional weight is unchanged, no matter how it is translated.
Waymond imploring everyone to just be kind FLOORS me every single time. Nothing so simple should pack such an emotional gut punch!
Yeah, seriously. So much in life is terrible, because being kind, or at least fair, isn't standard practice for everyone. A small subset of the population taking advantage of good things, ruining or at least unnecessarily limiting it for everyone else. Take the internet for example. It is such a powerful thing, but consider how much better it would be if we didn't have to be careful about security, or worry about people deliberately spreading misinformation just to further some profitable or political agenda. But no, we have people hacking and social engineering people into losing their savings, and companies that promote fearmongering clickbait for views, and so much more. There are passion projects that get ruined because of some legal technicality or other.
The expression 'this is why we can't have nice thing' exists for a reason, unfortunately.
@KC I think this movie was so good because its a fucking trend setter. Its what the Daniels are good at, the turn down for what music video was even directed by them. Their ability to perfectly show the life so many people are living right now. A life where we have everything at your finger tips, aka the internet, its overwhelming. Joys is probably the perfect example of what so many young people are going through right now. Theyre overwhelmed with the absolute onslaught of content that is the internet, and they struggle to connect with their parents that just don't understand their experience. Depression is on the rise, so are suicides, which was jobus actual goal with the bagel.
The "laundry and taxes" line will, I think, go down as one of the best lines ever written and uttered in a movie. It is so simple and yet so profound and says everything about what true love is. The second I heard it I knew that was how I feel about my fiancee, and even before she got to see it, it was a line I quoted to her (without spoiling the context). When she finally saw the movie too, she understood immediately and it's since become a go to for us to express our love.
I LOVE how Stephanie Hsu did Jobu/Joy. Not just the split, but Jobu pretending to be Joy and having it still be noticeably Wrong? Brilliant.
I lost it in the theater at the rock scene. Just started straight up weeping when Evelyn-Boulder followed Joy-Boulder down the cliff. My heart couldn't handle it.
I felt so silly literallybsobbing to two silent rocks. Happy to know im not alone
I love how the dust on the googly eyes made it look like she was tearing up on that. 🥺🥺
just finished watching and clicked on this video and i can't believe that someone else has experienced the same thing. aodheiwjgdidnendjsh
I am, no joke, probably going to get a tattoo of Boulder Evelyn with the googly eyes.
I ain't gonna lie, but when I saw the rock scene, I laughed my ass off
Something I noticed with Gong Gong, even though he constantly insults Evelyn, when she’s getting flustered talking to Deirdre, he tells Evelyn to let him talk to her, then later when the security team surrounds them, he says “She’s a good girl!” meaning Gong Gong still loves his daughter and wants to protect her. It can be seen in the singer universe, too, when he yells at her not to run, but cries at her bedside when she loses her eyes.
It’s _such_ an Asian boomer thing it’s insane. My grandfather is a lot the same - there’s a lot of expectations placed on the child and a shit ton of ego and lashing out and doing extreme things as tough punishment because of the need to be strict and maintain his role as the patriarch, especially as the child is growing older and he is getting weaker (physically and in his influences). But there’s also so so much love underlying everything. It’s expressing it easily that’s so conflicting for them. They really nailed his characterisation
and being an asian, i wanna say this is a good representation of how many men in the household acted! my freaking dad acted exactly like gonggong lmao
@@disconsolate3235
It is not just Gong Gong, but each + every member of the Wang Family are genuine representation of
who we Asians truly are + that is why we love this masterpiece.
Toward the end, when Evelyn tells Becky to "grow her hair" it indicates that Evelyn has accepted Becky.
Evelynn insults Joy to show she's concerned about her daughter because she learned it from her father. It's a good representation of "generational trauma" stuff that happens when we don't realize we are doing it.
@@artuno1207
I would not call it "insult", but rather how Asian/Chinese parents express themselves; Chinese parents are
honest, + some may say blunt, to their kids. Dan Kwan said when he told his mom he wanted to go into acting,
her reply was, "You are not that good looking". Now Kwan can appreciate the subtext of what his mom said, bc
thru out EEAAO, "Chinese parents speech" is 1 of the many details that makes the film so genuine.
Note "fat" in Chinese context DOES NOT have the negative connotation as in the west.
I luckily showed up to this movie knowing nothing about it. Never seen a trailer. Not a single spoiler. All I was recommended was to watch it because it was an a24 movie. I only wish that more people could experience it the way I did. Never has a movie impacted me so much. The undertones with struggling with suicidal tendencies, the struggle it is just to live every day. Just looking for someone to reach out too.
I even cried watching this video.
One of the best movies of all time
I had no idea what it was about either, I assumed it was about an older Asian woman who had a secret kung-fu destiny (like, when her husband starts acting weird in the elevator I thought he was just a secret kung fu master or something), but the real plot was so much better than what I assumed.
I bawled like a baby. What a beautiful movie!
Same here, I was fortunate enough I had read online early to go into the movie blind so I had absolutely no idea what to expect. Interestingly enough, I actually happened to see it with my own mother; we also have a difficult and complicated relationship. Suffice it to say we were both sobbing by the end.
I think my favorite little thing about this movie is Waymond's cookies. Everyone, no matter how unpleasant, no matter how adversarial they are, everyone loves Waymond's cookies, because they represent the small acts of love that he puts out into the world. He may not be rich or powerful, at least not as Prime Waymond, but he can still make cookies for people and sometimes that little gesture of sincerity and goodwill is all that matters.
I went to the theater to watch this movie with a date, I cried at the theater and my date left, and as I was driving home my car broke down in the middle of the highway, I wasn't mad or even depressed, I started to laugh and notes it as one of the best nights of my life, this movie changed my perception on life and I love it to death for it, thank you covering this it means a lot to me and a lot of people, stay awesome cinema wins!!!
Are you still seeing your date?
Woahh... hope you're ok dude
Hey
What’s your date’s reaction when she heard it sweeps this year’s Oscar including best film?
I hope they didn't just leave you at the theatre!
I’m not kidding when I say this movie changed my life. My roommates and I have watched it as a group twice, and we literally all bawl during the last fifteen minutes. This movie is the most optimistic nihilism I have ever seen, and it makes me weep. This video has me weeping. If you haven’t seen this movie, please watch it, it’s WHY we make movies in the first place. It’s art.
Love that term: optimistic nihilism
@@l0re811 kurzgesagt has an incredible video on it just search optimistic nihilism
I watched it, twice. Rewatched it just to make sure I did not miss anything
In both times, total letdown. Complete and utter waste of an interesting premise.
Only people with down-to-earth view on life would consider it any noteworthy.
One simply cannot advocate for frugality and acceptance in a realm of infinite possibilities, some objectively better in any and every possible way than others.
People really have hard time grasping concept of infinity, it seems.
This movie considers not “some”, not “plethora”, but ALL possibilities. That does not go well with moral teachings of acceptance or meaning or purpose, trivially.
@@kingol4801 ur loss
@kingOL - This movie is an absurdist comedy combined with elements of action, philosophy, scifi, and romance. You're not supposed to take the movie literally and it's not supposed to be a hard science fiction that accurately reflects science or reality.
The scene showing every happy memory with Waymond just made me bail my eyes out. Seeing him just be so optimistic and so caring, is just so heart warming but it gets me in the guts because the way he finds joy in the little things or even in times where most people would be negative he is impossibly postitive! Its so inspiration in a way, the way he just celebrates everything, better yet with his loved ones.
25:13 I don’t think a line has crushed me more than this. I’ve lost my mother around 4 years ago and it hits so close to home. Between this and Turning Red I’ve been reduced to tears every time I’ve seen Asian mothers on screen. Feels like a second chance to see and hear my own mom.
i had already been silently crying in the theatre at that point, but that scene made me start ugly sobbing. its incredibly powerful
You should watch Kim's Conveniance. It's a series about a family of Koreans adjusting to life outside of Korea and going through familial and personal traumas that they try to heal from. It's in the same vein as Schitts Creek, which had no right to be as good as it is.
Stephanie Hsu was just amazing here, she sells both Jobu and Joy so well.
Her emotions feel so raw and real, and that whole final confrontation in the parking lot is just acting perfection from everyone involved.
Hsu manages to somehow mix "omnipotent chaos Goddess" with "scared depressed girl, who still needs her mom" in a believable way.
I was absolutely floored.
Steph is phenomenally talented; she trained with experimental theater.
In the future, she will win her Oscar.
And she is articulate, has the most delightful laugh + is not anorexic thin - a positive image
for little girls + women of all ages.
For me it felt like poor Millenial, not coping all that well with growing up. It was flat and boring :(
True
@JokerCrowe
Steph is in a new flick, Joy Ride, which they probably named after Steph's breakout stardom.
She is not the main lead, but she is hilarious in the trailer of this earthy film.
@@Orvieta
Ok, I guess everyone's taste is different. Hope you find other movies that are more to your liking! :)
Legit not joking, I was trying to search for this a minute ago wondering why such a movie with a perfect title for your video has not been made yet. And it came out immediately. Dream come true
Thank you for manifesting this video!
Just more mulitverse shenanigans.
Maybe you appeared in the universe where they made the one
Same here, watched it this weekend.
Synchronicity is fun
As someone who has been a fan of Harry Shum Jr since his big break in Glee, it’s so great to see him finally getting these great roles in fantastic movies. Even if it is just a side character who’s whole role is to be a Ratatouille parody haha
He was incredible. I'll always be happy to see him getting roles.
No joke, Waymond is the type of person I aspire to be, up to an extent. I often fail, but I continue to strive to be that way. Some of the proudest moments in my life were when I was kind and loving when others weren't. And when everything about a situation seemed to be pointing to inevitable violence, but I was able to de-escalate, while not being a pushover.
My favorite little detail on rewatch is the fact that YOU ACTUALLY SEE RACACOONIE'S TAIL ON CHAD'S HEAD
It's so blatantly obvious on rewatch the fact that you miss it the first time is astonishing
MY NEW STAND, [RACACOONIE]
I somehow noticed it the first time. Anyone else?
@@sarahcoletti6946 Definitely noticed it as well
@@sarahcoletti6946 Yeah I did, but taking it all in I didn't catch on that we'd get to see any more than the universe.
Then they pull the hat off and the actual whole raccoon puppet joins the plot.
I appreciated how Deirdre referred to Evelyn as “Mrs. Wang” at the first meeting and at the last meeting she calls her Evelyn showing how the two of them have grown closer over this experience. Love this movie.
I love how Raymond is the heart and soul of the story without ever being in the spotlight or having to become action man
He's the supporting person in ones life everyone hopes for
I know the film touched (I'm assuming) the hearts of everyone who watched it, but as an Asian myself, this film hit doubly different... Mostly because that's almost literally how my parents were throughout my life. It took us all a long time realise we were all accidentally hurting one another simply because we love each other but didn't really know how to express it. It's still a work in progress, but now, every time my mom tells me I need to eat more because I'm a growing boy (despite being in my 30's and not having lived with my mom for over a decade now), I just sit down, grab a plate and have some of mom's cooking even though she can't cook for sh*t (our dad's the one who knows how to cook in the house. Seriously, dude can turn a fried egg into a meal fit for a god).
Eat your mom's cooking while you can people! You never know when it'll be the last time you get to do so.
Hopefully this video addresses it, but the most impressive part of this film is how well the actors sell this primise. From Michelle Yeoh's witheld turmoil turned shakey confidence, to Ke Huy Quan's timidness turned charm if any performance felt like a soap opera than the heartfelt absurdism would be lost. Remember, they have to make everything from eating chapstick to scrambling papers everywhere all appear organic and natural at once.
You have just said what I've been trying to put into words. Why is this film good? It should just seem like its trying to force a message of kindness solves everything down your throat, you should be cringing at that. But the actors sell it so well, you don't see that at all, its not so ridiculous it takes you out of the story, its so incredibly well done that it keeps you drawn in without you even realising it.
I see what you did there.. with the last line.. and I love it
@@blindbandit6802 Thank you.
What always hits me is that Jobu falls into the begel, a representation of depressive nihilism, the despair event horizon,
Something you're not meant to be able to come back from,
After falling she reaches out and is pulled back from it. Anybody with serious depression can feel like they've fallen too far and that they can't recover but here we're shown that accepting the help others offer can pull you free from that place
Also something I've never seen mentioned: People point out how Evelyn placing the googly eye, the opposite of the begal, on her forehead is a sign of her enlightment of optimistic nihilism, and that all the followers of Jobu put the begel on their forehead, the begel being their enlightment. But Jobu's hair being the begel shows that the begel ISN'T her englightment, it's above her head not on it, and a sign that while she may talk about accepting the begel she actually hasn't, which is why she's looking for a version of Evelyn that can relate to her
i’m sorry it’s bothering me too much but it’s spelled “bagel” not “begal” lol
@@andimoz Fixed lel
OMG your comment made me cry AGAIN! I can't watch the movie, reviews of the movie, or thoughtful comments about the movie because I cry!
Great commentary
James Hong is a top three "that guy" actor for me and I loved seeing how he crushed it even in a supporting role. And seeing Ke Huy Quan's work here makes me sad for all the roles we missed seeing because Hollywood's casting system has been so broken.
Hopefully that gets fixed soon, especially with Quan being cast for Loki season 2!
The phrase “everything everywhere all at once”balso reflects how complicated evelyn’s worklife is. She’s litteraly gotta handle everything everywhere all at once 💀💀💀
I've very recently left a home shared with my emotionally abusive mother. It makes this film so painful for me to watch but at the same time, it fills me with hope. The message for me has become "Nothing matters, so choose what matters to you, and choose kindness" and that has honestly changed my life for the better.
I am happy to see you have learned such a useful perspective. Now take that lesson and make what you can and will out of life.
I had a similar experience with this movie due to my situation, I wept openly in the theater. I don’t expect my life to have reconciliation the way Joy and Eveline do, but seeing the entire spectrum of their relationship is deeply moving and cathartic. Waynond is such a hero and teacher
I’m in a similar situation with my mom too. After the movie I chose myself over making my mom happy. I finally had the courage to admit to myself that she never even tried to love me, and it’s not fair to me that she built her own happiness on my misery. I choose what matters in my life and it will not have her in it.
I wasn't just abused by my bio mom, but later my adopted mom, and Joy/Jobu just being scared and depressed and needing her mom really hit hard for me, and I never fail to break down crying over Evelyn saying "Out of all the places I could be right now I still want to be here with you." It's a very huge comfort.
Everything Everywhere All At Once is one of the only movie that made me genuinely weep in the theater. It was my movie of the year, and one of my favorite movies of all time
Yeah, it's way up there for me too.
I saw this movie in theaters twice, both times at the local indie theater, but the first time I saw it, it was on the smallest screen in the theater, so it only seated like 30 people, and there were probably like a dozen of us - maybe less. The theater was so small that not only could I hear everyone laughing with me, I could hear them crying with me too. It's a fantastic movie and I loved seeing it in a bigger theater (with my parents!) but that first experience was deeply moving.
100%. Me too
Yup, same. Love this so, so much
Definitely a tear jerker, in the BEST of ways.
I can't believe you didn't include "sucked into a bagel", easily the best part of the entire movie
that part rocked me. so cool!!!
Joy yelling at Evelyn to stop hit me in the heart, that's when the tears started for me. Hit me right in the mommy issues
Becky's "What did he say" when Gong gong is speaking with her is so great.
It might be the most beautiful comic relief ever. I love it
Me with my grandpa in a nutshell. I can understand Chinese, I can't understand Hokkien or Canto.
That one made me laugh almost as hard as "Shitty Also Sprach Zarathustra," except I was also crying, so it was really just a stream of mucus getting launched out of my nose at approximately the sound barrier.
03:17 there is actually a hidden meaning in this interaction. In china (and eastern countries in general, I think) it is not as much of a taboo to call someone fat as it is here in the west, so Evelyn would consider that a perfectly normal thing to say, but Joy, of course, spent her entire life in the US, she doesn't have that same frame of reference, so to her it comes across as an insult, even tho it wasn't intended that way by her mom.
Just because it is "normal" for people in asia to say things like that.. Doesnt make it right or it doesn't mean that it doesnt hurt.. People here most of the time doesn't talk about their feelings, doesn't even know how to and we just expect it as "okay".
@@inkedge1519 I never said it was okay, I was explaining why Evelyn saying that from her perspective wasn't meant the way it was interpreted by Joy (and the audience)
@@SirWeibrot i mean it was preety clear, what she was saying clearly not what she really wanted to say.. Joy even talked about it earlier with her gf..
it's also along the same lines as "you should grow out your hair"! it's a weird sort of "tough love" thing asian parents tend to say (and extended family members as well) to show they care. i think it's more supposed to be a jab at what we ALWAYS hear whenever we get together for a family gathering LOL.
@@inkedge1519 SHUT UP
I think the fact that they talk in cantonese in english in the opening is very smart. Not many know the language, so the audience will turn on subtitles, which help during the stone/pebbles scenes.
The subtitles for the Cantonese and for the rocks scene are in the film by default. Turning on subtitles doesn't change anything
I love the fact that almost the whole movie takes place while evelyn is following Joy out to the car, pretty much beginning and ending with that one perfect little scene. That's some genius storytelling right there. Everything boils down to that one moment of mother and daughter accepting each other and finally being kind to each other, education in kindness courtesy of Waymond.
That scene of Evelyn realizing her true love for Waymond through the montage of all the small ways he brought happiness into her life absolutely wrecked me when I rewatched it. The love and undying uplifting that Waymond brings to people around him makes me smile like an idiot and bawl like a baby
This is my favorite movie hands down. I get chills every time Waymond explains why he's kind and how he just wants to do taxes and laundry with Evelyn. Everything from the googly eyes being the inverse to the bagel, the entire rock scene, the end where Evelyn and Joy have their heart to heart, to just all of it. It's such a gorgeous movie.
Edit to add that the comparison between positive and negative nihilism is fabulous. Nothing matters being bad to nothing matters being a comfort is so important to me
Yo, for real on that last bit.
lol, never noticed until now that googly eyes are totally the inverse of a bagel. I love this movie.
RE: your edit: Joy still finds comfort in her nihilism, but she's content to wallow in it because completely checking out feels better than depression and family conflict, especially when you're in your early 20s and don't feel like you have anyone to understand how you feel. Evelyn's more firmly developed sense of self and MOST IMPORTANTLY having Waymond in her life lets her transcend "nothing matters" into "nothing matters except what I choose for myself"
You know this movie is incredible when even the playback of that hug at 26:06 can make you cry from the sheer emotion in it
I wasn't going to watch the movie for the exact reason you mentioned: too many people liked it. I just didn't buy the hype and the reviews and nominations. Boy, was I so wrong. I saw a video essay on the absurdist/Camus aspect of the movie in my recommended and thought that maybe there was something there. So I decided to watch it and it is hands down my favorite movie of all time. The actors, the shots, the fights and mainly, the way the philosophy of the movie is expressed. It really helped me come to terms with a lot of things and made me want to be my highest self. I just want to stop being cynical and live life despite its absurdities. alas, Rome wasn't built in a day and all that so I'm just gonna try my best. I just don't want to be so cynical anymore. If anyone reads this, know this: I love you, and I mean it.
😊 this is sweet.Cynicism is a reflex but it's ultimately a choice. ❤
I love hearing how Jamie Lee Curtis stays on set between her scenes as this will often inspire directors to give her more to do. So awesome how she could have just been a nepo baby with a few sexploitation parts in horror movies, but instead she has made herself a career as an actor's actor by always putting in the extra work and consideration.
For younger readers, the "nepo baby" possibility is because she's the daughter of Hollywood royalty Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh.
(She kept the artistic last name instead of Schwartz though, unlike a certain Coppola nephew who changed his to Nicolas Cage, or the one of Martin Sheen sons who kept the family name Estevez.)
@@TorIverWilhelmsen ty for saving me a google search
I genuinely showed up to this movie expecting not much more than a quirky stylish mutliverse flick. Internet spoilers gave many of Waymond's lines away before I watched and I was prepped for some of the relationship stuff. I did NOT expect a soul-rippingly exquisite film on generational trauma. I was a crying mess in the best way. This film is beyond incredible in so many ways x
24:27 this moment. The fight stance becoming open arms, inviting to a hug, especially with the sound accompanying the score that almost sounds like a sigh of relief, of comfort, of pure love. Those two seconds of overwhelming music, touching sound design, beautiful expression and body language felt like everything the movie was leading to. The center of the bagel
Bro I’m actually crying over Waymond being sad about the plant dying, why am I like this?
This is one of those films where if someone said "This is my favorite movie of all time" right at the middle I would not question it
This movie is something very very special, and easily one of the best films of the entire 2020s decade (so far)
It's one of the best movies ever made period. Even excluding the plot for a moment, you can tell everything in this was made with love and care. It's not some self-indulgent author's insert mess, it's a genuine piece of art from people who not only know what they're doing but want this to be meaningful.
Best movies of the 2000's
It’s so interesting how everyone is really focused on the family aspect, when I saw this movie I was sobbing but to me it was about Suicide and depression, and love being the answer to life - with the mother/daughter thing as a subplot
Take what you need from the movie. There is enough meat there for everyone to find something they needed.
@@lepeke an absolute cinematic feast.
I like to think that there was no main plot. everything is a subplot and everything becomes important in different scenes in the movie as we go in and out of the story that the movie is showing us.
@@westendgreensextortion2444 It's not a mainstream Hollywood film. It's an independent film.
@Westend Greens Extortion oh boo hoo go cry about it to your mom
I discovered Stephanie Hsu through her Broadway roles as Christine in Be More Chill and Karen in Spongebob the Musical (highly reccomend both of those) and good lord. Even as a 'supporting' character she is the heart of it. She's an amazing singer, a talented performer and a gorgeous woman. Here's hoping we get more of her in... well, Everything. Everywhere. All at once.
Ok I know I’m late to the video but I have to point it out. The googly eyes are an exact opposite of the bagel. While the bagel is black with a white centre in the middle, the googly eyes are white with a black centre askew
"In another life, I would've really liked just doing laundry and taxes with you."
This line absolutely annihilates me every single time.
Yes, I cried watching THIS VIDEO. I love this movie so much. The most heartbreaking line in the film is when Evelyn tells Waymond about how beautiful her life was without him, and seeing his face just drop.
me too btch im sitting here with tears in my eyes help
I was lucky enough to go to a screening and something I really loved was the Daniel saying that their headcanon for the ending is that Evelyn and Joy don't exactly just magically get better but still are "Everywhere" but make the choice to choose to be together in their universe every day. It basically is such a real interpretation of working on a complicated relationship, where things don't magically get better but are a constant uphill battle built out of love. Idk, I just really love this movie 😅
It’s also so real, because often you *can* just choose to leave. But you choose to stay
I'm definitely part of the, "mind is a placid sea of calm during the bit with all the faces and the music," group. Yours is the first video I've seen to point this out.
Also, during the first auditor meeting, Dierdre calls her Mrs. Wang. During the meeting at the end, Dierdre calls her Evelyn.
My mind was busy trying to catch whatever frames I could 😂
A testament to the quality of this movie is that my mum, who doesn't usually like anything too "artistic", liked it
I watched it before my parents and younger sis did and I highly recommended it. All three came out and said the same thing: they couldn't understand it. I understand but also am sad (though my older sis, who like me is on the more artistic side of things, loves it as well so that's a plus)
Really good art doesn’t feel artistic. ;)
@@RWBYSanctum All of my cousins and friends my age understood it. Everyone in my family Gen X and up who've seen this didn't understand it at all. And if them all being either immigrants or people who lived outside of our home country for many years should've changed anything, it didn't.
@@RWBYSanctum same here. My sister loved it and one parent couldn’t understand it and the other couldn’t finish it because it was too weird. I think it’s because existentialism and optimistic nihilism is a thing very prevalent in gen z/ millennial cultures whereas many gen x parents simply cannot move past the beginning-of-movie “Evelyn Wong ” mindset to understand the point of all the chaos
@@disconsolate3235 that's true, they probably think that depression is something you can get over by just thinking happy thoughts.
I love Stephanie Hsu. I first knew about her back around 2017 when Be More Chill got popular on Tumblr. It very quickly became my favorite musical and was extremely important to me. I got the incredible opportunity to see it at the Signature Theater during the week it was announced they would be on Broadway. So, they did a talk back after the show with a couple of the actors. Stephanie Hsu was among them and I very politely approached her as we were all exiting the theater to thank her for her performance. When you have the opportunity to give your thanks, why not? She asked me if I wanted her to sign my playbill and it legitimately hadn't even occurred to me. So, yeah, I have her signature and have been continually amazed at her growing fame and upcoming stardom. She really is so talented and deserves more roles.
She is nominated for an Oscar and I’m so pissed that she isn’t gonna get it. She had the best performance out of the nominees.
Love that
My first experience with Michelle Yeoh was when I was eight, and I saw _Tomorrow Never Dies,_ where she played Wai Lin, a Chinese secret agent working alongside James Bond to prevent a war manufactured by a media mogul for ratings. She was fantastic in that - and to this day, she's still my favorite Bond girl - and she's fantastic in this. Definitely one of the best actors in the business.
Me too, I first saw her in the Bond movie as a kid (maybe 10?) and I liked her. As an Chinese girl I thought is was cool to have an Asian Bond girl and she was so good in it. I also remember thinking 'ok when are they going to kiss?' 😂😂 Then they finally did at the end😂
I never cried watching a movie before. It just wasn't a thing but this movie really pushed a lot of buttons. I was bawling my eyes put half way through watching it. Absolutely amazing film.
When a movie you've seen 5 times still makes you tear up in a movie review video
i've seen this movie about 8 times and have never gotten through it without crying. in fact, i cried at this video about it. it's so damn good, and you perfectly showed why. thank you.
And this is why I've long supported this channel. This made me love this movie even more than I already do. Thank you for such a good break down
I've watched this movie twice already. Both times I was nonstop crying from Waymond's monologue all the way to the end. I even cried just seeing it all summed up in your video.
It's probably the best movie in multiple respects that I've ever seen. I could watch it a million more times and never get over how powerful it is.
I am once again recommending Rango for a video. The most bizarre and amazing animated movie I've ever seen.
I agree! We need this to happen
Agreed!
Absolutely! One of my favorite animated films
Last wish is another incredible animated movie I'm sure he'll do soon
Weird i just watched Rango today for the first time and also wanted it covered because it is so damn weird haha
There's just something so cathartic and satisfying about seeing one of your favorite movies "Winned". You get all this validation for your favorite parts and even gain a new appreciation for some stuff you yourself may not have noticed. Great video man, I always come to you when i wanna feel good.
Every time I have watched this movie, or see scenes or video essays on it I either tear up or full on cry. This is without a doubt one of if not my favorite movie of all time. It’s such a release because I almost never get to release my emotions or let it out or cry at all. I love this movie with all of my heart and soul and though I may not watch it a lot. It holds such a special place to me. I hope everyone is doing ok and if you haven’t fully watched this movie, on your own or with others. Do it. Do it and have a blast, and ball your eyes out
I watched this movie on Friday with my family. There are few lines that have made me cry as hard as:
"In another life, I would have really liked just doing laundry and taxes with you."
Watched this on Nebula already. Easily my favorite film of 2022, and honestly one of my favorite of all time. I've seen it six times now, and new things keep popping out at me every time. Insanely emotional, funny, and endlessly rewatchable. I don't think I'll ever tire of it.
Another cool thing about the movie: Evelyn’s maiden name is Quan (全) which means “complete” or connotes the entire sum of the parts of a whole in Chinese.
I don’t usually cry at movies, but somehow the “laundry and taxes” line makes me cry every single time I hear it. Even on its own out of context like in this video, when I knew it was coming and I wasn’t expecting it to hit me as hard, it still did. Wtf.
It's rare that you leave a movie thinking, "This is maybe the best movie I have ever seen!', but it happened once I left the theater after this film. On subsequent viewings, that thought keeps reoccurring! It's just such a well made movie that combines laughing, crying, farce, sincerity, slapstick, and kick ass martial arts! It truly is Everything, Everywhere, All at Once!
3:17 This was a sweet moment for me because Asian parents (especially immigrants to America) aren't very emotionally forward with their kids, so they use food as a substitute. Calling Joy fat was Evelyn's way of saying "I care about you, and I worry for you." Another nod to managing the complex in-between of honoring their cultural roots while also watching Joy be more americanized than Evelyn.
I love how this is also set up/alluded to at the start where Evelyn fusses about getting gong gong’s noodles done right
There's a right way of doing things, and a wrong way of doing things.
Abuse is bad.
@@JoshSweetvale Are you perfect? No. We all have missteps and unintentional hurt each other. Being quick to judge people for theirs doesn't suddenly make you free from yours.
Good job missing the point of the movie btw
Ok. It's NOT just me. The silent rock scene was SO f'ing powerful!
Words really can't explain how this movie makes me feel. The cinematography and direction was amazing but the story really cracked me.
As an asian kid, I related so strongly to the daughter but since growing up, I've also come to understand the struggle from my mom's side. Our relationship has always been one I'm so confused about, but even though she has said some really harsh things to me I will always love her and I really felt like that anguish and complexity of how I feel about my mom was displayed here. From the asian disappointment with high expectations to the way parents communicate love through mean comments but then it doesn't get received the same from the child's end. Oh boy. After I finished watching this in the cinema, I cried for 15 minutes straight and I couldn't stop. I have never found another movie that has affected me like this. Watching this amazing breakdown also just triggered my crying all over again. All I can say is thank you to everyone who worked on this movie, and I hope I can muster up the courage one day to watch it with my parents.
Anyways, brb gonna go rewatch it for the 3rd time now.
Oh my god the ASPECT RATIO CHANGES during that first fight?!?! I've seen this film like half a dozen times, it's one of my all-time favourites and there's STILL things I never noticed?!? What the actual FUCK Daniels 😭💜
EDIT: this film is just so so important to me, I'm generally a pretty optimistic person and it can be crushing at times but the line "When I choose to see the good side of things, I'm not being naive. It is strategic and necessary. It's how I learned to survive through everything" reminded me why I do it all 💜
the "in another life, I would have really liked just doing laundry and taxes with you." makes me cry every time I watch this movie
25:53 the combination of smoothly moving her legs out of the way of his arm actions and the smile she has as she continues her control of him is just fantastic.
Just to add another piece of trivia:
The CEO Waymond universe is shot and stylized like a Wong Kar-wai movie, he's an AMAZING chinese director, Ke Huy Quan worked with him in multiple movies as Assistent Director.. It's a great homage to an incredible auteur, specialized in forbidden love! Also a great nod to put Ke Huy Quan as the lead of this universe, one that he saw multiple times behind the cameras!
Also Also Stephanie Hsu made Karen, the Robot/Wife of Plankton in the SpongeBob Musical. Just like to point that out!
Amazing video as always! Made me tear up at the supermarket while I watched it! Keep up the great work!
My favorite part of the film is the fact that it’s very open to interpretation. Different symbols in the movie such as the bagel, googly eyes, and hell, even the hot dog fingers, are never fully explained and puts trust in us as the viewers to find meaning in them as they apply to our own experiences and lives. So so incredible !!❤
The final act in this film I think is genuinely one of the best things ever put to cinema ever
I saw this movie in May last year. I’d been going insane with work and home stress, so I took some time off, got on a train to another city and locked myself in a hotel room for a week. One of the few times I did leave, I went to a theatre and saw this. I didn’t know anything about it going in. It was the first time since pre-covid that I’d been in such a crowded theatre. I walked out feeling like a different person, and feeling like the people around me had all gone through something extraordinary together. I have been hoping every day since then that you might make a video about it, and my goodness it was worth the wait. Thank you so much for all the work you do, you knock it out of the park every single time. Thank you for loving movies and thank you for sharing your love with us. ❤
Michelle Yeoh won the Oscar!! Same with Brandon Frasier and Ke Huy Quan!! Super happy to the three of them~
I went into this movie going off of positive buzz alone without even really knowing what it was about and the third act hit me like a gut punch. I have never cried as hard at a movie before and after leaving the theatre I had to sit in my car for 30 minutes before I felt ready to drive home. You would never expect such a deep story about generational trauma and dealing with depression and hopelessness to happen in the same movie as hot dog fingers and kung fu with buttplugs XD Quickly became my favorite movie
i will say this once and say it forever until im dead; this movie is a game changer. it has everything for everyone which i love. im not an action movie kinda gal but i was still so invested in every single second bc the story kept me there. this was my movie of the year for 2022. it was so cathartic for me, thank god for michelle yeoh, stephanie hsu and ke huy quan. they deserve everything and MORE
Watched this video and immediately started to cry again and now there's tears on my pants and laptop. Honestly the best film I've ever watched, and I've watched films since forever.
10:55 That isn't just a bagel, its an "everything bagel"
As someone with ADHD, hearing one of my favourite CZcamsrs mention ADHD (even in passing) gives me the warm fuzzys
One of the director's got diagnosed with ADHD in the process of making this film lol
@@greasybumpkin1661 Y'know what?
That explains pretty much everything.
@@justaghostinthesea there's A LOT of people with ADHD in entertainment. I used to work in it and have it myself too.
@@greasybumpkin1661 Oh, good to know. I plan to go into entertainment myself, believe it or not.
I say this is the most life-changing experience I've ever experienced in a theater. I cried more times in a theater than I ever did. Because this movie just hits everything I never expected, like the family dynamic and trauma, trying to live up to what your parents could've wanted for you but you fall short. I connected with Wang, trying to be nice in a world that drains you of every once of it.
3:12 WELL PUT! Sometimes the interpretation of facial expression says so much more than words can express!
Thanks for covering this one. I was unable to finish watching it because of sensory processing issues clashing really badly with the busy chaos of this movie, but even the small amount of it that I was able to get through made clear the story was a deep and very well-written one about family relationships. It's nice to hear about the rest of it from you - you are always so joyful about the movies you cover.
I remember seeing this in the cinema and wondering what scene was making people break so easily... and sure enough for me it was the rocks scene and I spent the entire trip home stunned that a pair of rocks with googly eyes was what broke me. This film is just impossibly good and I can't believe we get to live in a world where something like this exists.
I didn’t expect a film that appeared so goofy to make me cry
This movie, for me, is about a mother saving her suicidal daughter. As someone who has struggled with mental health issues in the past, this movie is probably the best movie I’ve ever seen. The way they handled it is so beautiful and I love it for that.
Also, that is the greatest win explanation I’ve ever heard on this channel 18:09 😂😂
one thing I love about this movie is how its so much more than the main plot of a mother daughter relationship there are elements that everyone can relate to; understanding and appreciating those around you, overcoming mental health issues, stopping yourself from getting caught up in the bad stuff of life even if happiness doesn't last forever that doesn't negate its worth, fighting by being a good person to make others better, and enjoying life. I watched it last night and was non stop crying for the whole second half, while I was the only person in the watching party who understood all the messages and got the concept of the film it was spectacular. a movie to watch when you need to feel something. and of course its going to have different meanings on a personal level. personally I am currently in a stage of my life where there is nothing I can do about a whole lot of things im just following the rotation of the earth and this movie is such a push to understand the life and hidden hope in the world. I definitely don't think this movie is villainising mental health, as someone who has had big mental struggles and wanted to die at a low point the 'ok' broke me, expressing that its ok to feel that way but also imm here. crazy movie I enjoyed it so much.
This movie is awkwardly beautiful. I think it's one of the best films I've seen in a very long time. such originality and this is what Hollywood should strive for when making films.