After winning seven Oscars at this year’s Academy Awards, there is not much left to say about our movie recommendation of the week, other than we had it on our list even before its grand slam win of becoming the most awarded film of all time.
Everything Everywhere All at Once, starring the ingenious Michelle Yeoh, is an extremely funny and intelligent mix of film genres—encompassing comedy, science, fantasy, spirituality, sociocritical drama, and feel-good psychology—that charts new territory in what could be called “visual stream of consciousness” narration.
The film essentially teaches about the value of the present moment and how we are called to stop living in “parallel lives” of our own fantasies, regrets, or self-aggrandizement, and start actually seeing and embracing what is there before us at any given time. Only then will we find life meaningful and maybe even do something heroic.
Let us know in the comments who you think is the hero of the story.
Watch online on various streaming services, or go to a movie theater near you.
(Warning: The movie contains two scenes that for some viewers may be leaving the terroir of the comical and bordering on bad taste.)
Related:
Everything Everywhere All at Once on Wikipedia
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Have not been around for a while.
Every now and then I follow the “Let’s Go to the Movies” recommendation, and this one did not disappoint me at all.
There was one idea that got stuck in my mind throughout the whole movie. I feel the storytelling in the movie draws upon MWI (many-worlds interpretation).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-worlds_interpretation
“The many-worlds interpretation implies that there are most likely an uncountably infinite number of universes.”
Also I could not stop relating the fighting and struggle taking place throughout the movie with a frequent expression of Robert Sylvester Vannrox, who runs the http://www.metallicman.com website. He encourages constantly the readership to “be the rufus”.