4/5/2024 0 Comments Black intergenerational traumaShe always seems to have something to say about everything I wear, every blemish on my skin, every life choice I make that she often can’t understand because of our vastly, seemingly irreconcilably different upbringings. Perhaps the key plot point in the film is that the universe is being plagued by a mega-variant of Joy, after-and stay with me here-in one universe, Evelyn pushed her so hard to become gifted at jumping through universes that she rebelled by creating a black hole of infinite destruction called the “everything bagel.” I, too, at varying points have wanted to exact some form of perhaps less science-y revenge on my own mother. It also focuses on the particular duality of love and pain that characterizes so many mother-daughter relationships through Evelyn and Joy, and theorizes that perhaps the solution to everything wrong with existence could be as simple as talking to your mother, or talking to someone, about your trauma. It puts a spotlight on the way our parents have fucked us up because their parents fucked them up, because their parents fucked them up, and so on. Through flashbacks, we learn that before Evelyn and Waymond even had Joy, Evelyn and her father Gong-Gong had become estranged as a result of her running away with Waymond without his approval.Īt its core, beneath all the layers of absurdity, Everything Everywhere All at Once is an exploration of intergenerational trauma. The couple runs a struggling laundromat, and they share a daughter, Joy, whose girlfriend and queer identity are difficult for Evelyn to accept. We spend the film following Evelyn and her family, as she struggles to connect with her gentle, romantic husband Waymond. And yet it’s also, somehow, a story about the illusion of agency and reality itself.Īdditionally, it’s very much a story about family. Everything Everywhere is a truly whacky epic rife with sausage-fingered lesbian lovers, a raccoon chef a la Ratatouille, and desk trophies made out of butt plugs. Meaningless, because even the most seemingly intense, significant moments of our lives are just tiny particles in a grand multiverse meaningful, because every inane, seemingly insignificant choice we make can impact the trajectory of our lives across the multiverse. The movie’s grand thesis seems to be that life and humanity are both meaningless and meaningful, simultaneously. Directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, the movie is a mind and genre-bending sci-fi adventure that posits there are infinite versions of us across infinite universes, and each decision we make ripples out into an infinite number of possibilities. It’s a disdain she shares with many Asian immigrant parents, and certainly Michelle Yeoh’s Evelyn Wang in the new, absurdist film Everything Everywhere All at Once. If the universe were collapsing in on itself, and reality was fraying at the seams, the one thing I could count on is that my mom would find a way to make it about my tattoos.
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