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Everything, Everywhere, All at Once - Yazata - May 22, 2022

An Asian 'Dr. Strange and the Multiverse of Madness', without Dr. Strange but with a double helping of Madness


https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/wxN1T1uxQ2g


RE: Everything, Everywhere, All at Once - C C - May 22, 2022

Figures. Michelle Yeoh is "everywhere" except that Section 31 show that's been promised since 2019. You'd think at least one multiverse double could be allotted for that.

"In the meantime, Yeoh remains very busy (which could be a contributing factor for the wait). She is just coming off her starring role in the 2022 film Everything Everywhere All at Once, and she will soon be seen in the Netflix mini-series The Witcher: Blood Origin, and the sequel to James Cameron’s Avatar. She will be shooting more Avatar sequels, and is currently in production on the upcoming Disney+ action-comedy series American Born Chinese." ... https://trekmovie.com/2022/04/13/michelle-yeoh-on-how-the-section-31-show-would-be-a-different-kind-of-star-trek/


Yeah, EVERYWHERE except Section 31...


RE: Everything, Everywhere, All at Once - Yazata - May 22, 2022

Maybe it's the Asian cast, but it's tempting for me to put a Buddhist spin on this movie.

Buddhism is all about karma, the idea that what we are today is the product of all of our choices in the past. And maybe, since self is an illusion, all the events in the past. The succession of choices might have gone differently, which would result in different todays. Some of those todays might be paradisical in the infinitely many Buddhist heavens, others dark and tormented in the infinitely many Buddhist hells. Possible worlds ontology. Alternate realities.

But unlike 'Abrahamic' heaven and hell, the inhabitants of the alternate realities, the heavens and the hells, are making choices too. Thus acquiring more karma and shaping their future paths. So those in heaven can fall out of that blissful state. Gods are very prone to plummeting out of heaven into hell, since being a god is nothing if not fuel for egotism and self-aggrandizement. (Think Yahweh and his incessant "I am your Lord! You Must Worship Me!") And hell-beings can rise up out of hell as the result of their selfless virtue. Hell beings have opportunity for courage and for compassion after all, that gods in their perfectly blissful heavens aren't given and can never know. (Maybe that idea casts light on the reason for Jesus' incarnation and his passion in the Christian story.)

So here's Michelle Yeoh, with her little laundromat that is going broke, with a husband that just served her divorce papers, with children that are contemptuous of what she represents to them, and finally, an IRS audit that promises to destroy anything she has left. Her little personal hell.

And an alternate version of her husband appears, from a heaven that has the ability to move among the alternate universes. Because of all the possible Michelle's that she might have been, this most beaten-down one is a Bodhisattva, with an untapped karmic potential that the rest of them lack: "Every rejection, every disappointment, has led you here, to this moment!"

The possibility of rising above, of embracing the infinite multiverse and all of its possibilities. The possibility of pulling together all of the disseparate possible Michelle's and integrating all of their possbilities into one. Everything, Everywhere, All at Once. The possibility of becoming a Buddha.

... Or alternatively, maybe she's just crazy.


RE: Everything, Everywhere, All at Once - Secular Sanity - Oct 29, 2022

It was terrible! Thumbs down! Or hotdogs down...whatever.


https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/6DooGkTiaGI


RE: Everything, Everywhere, All at Once - Magical Realist - Jan 10, 2023

Two of my nephews swear this is one of the best movies ever made. They even bought a copy of it after seeing it and watched it again. I'm somewhat skeptical, the trailer feeling like a bad acid trip. I'll give it a try and see it anyway. It's up for a Golden Globe award tonight and probably an Oscar in a few weeks. As the Globes go so go the Oscars.


RE: Everything, Everywhere, All at Once - C C - Jan 11, 2023

(Jan 10, 2023 10:18 PM)Magical Realist Wrote: Two of my nephews swear this is one of the best movies ever made. They even bought a copy of it after seeing it and watched it again. I'm somewhat skeptical, the trailer feeling like a bad acid trip. I'll give it a try and see it anyway. It's up for a Golden Globe award tonight and probably an Oscar in a few weeks. As the Globes go so go the Oscars.

Via watching the 23 episodes of "His Dark Materials" over the past couple of weeks (with six to go), I've pretty much had my fill of a "powerful being" that's menacing a whole multiverse. So maybe in a few months.

One thing I'll say about Ruth Wilson, she can play a maniacally mastermind mother (HDM) and a transatlantic, gender-swapped version of Dexter (in "Luther") as good as anybody.


RE: Everything, Everywhere, All at Once - Secular Sanity - Jan 11, 2023

Jamie Lee Curtis said that Daniel Kwan talked about the origin of the movie, and he talked about our phones, and the society that we live in, which is this digital input where in one second we’re seeing the catastrophe of the night club shooting that happened last night. And then with one swipe of our finger, it’s a cat video, and then another swipe and it’s politics. The amount of information that we are processing as human beings now, and it's demanding attention from our brains, and that’s where the movies construction came from—the chaos. They transposed that kaleidoscope of instantaneous, agitational chaos and found a center, which is love, kindness, family, forgiveness, and living with regret. 

I hated the hotdog universe, but I guess they were trying to highlight the absurdity of this world and juxtaposing it against our need to find happiness through each other.


https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/enpn0GnmbUE

Just a lot of justification for, as MR said, a bad acid trip.

"Art is the human condition."  I don’t know about that. I’d say that from an ant’s perspective, it’s just another highbrow form of human expression. On the other hand, The Banshees of Inisherin looks good.


RE: Everything, Everywhere, All at Once - C C - Jan 11, 2023

(Jan 11, 2023 03:14 PM)Secular Sanity Wrote: [...] On the other hand, The Banshees of Inisherin looks good.

It might be just old enough that I can find it someplace this weekend, or sometime when hubby's not around in the background to groan intermittently. Oh, [after watching trailer] if it's also half/drama half/comedy -- maybe no problem with him. Even if it was otherwise wholly tragedy or relationship-oriented, the "shocking consequences" (cutting fingers off?) might be something that would still fit into his category or conception of entertainment. 

". . . lifelong friends Pádraic (Colin Farrell) and Colm (Brendan Gleeson), who find themselves at an impasse when Colm unexpectedly puts an end to their friendship. A stunned Pádraic, aided by his sister Siobhán (Kerry Condon) and troubled young islander Dominic (Barry Keoghan), endeavours to repair the relationship, refusing to take no for an answer. But Pádraic's repeated efforts only strengthen his former friend’s resolve and when Colm delivers a desperate ultimatum, events swiftly escalate, with shocking consequences."


RE: Everything, Everywhere, All at Once - C C - Feb 4, 2023

(Jan 10, 2023 10:18 PM)Magical Realist Wrote: Two of my nephews swear this is one of the best movies ever made. They even bought a copy of it after seeing it and watched it again.

I finally saw it. Might help to orient yourself toward pretending that it's a classic cult film (like "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" or something), even though it's recent.

Quote:I'm somewhat skeptical, the trailer feeling like a bad acid trip.

Maybe akin to an old-fashioned Disney family movie on acid (but with vulgar language and stuff). Perhaps also laced with "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" on acid. 



(Jan 11, 2023 03:14 PM)Secular Sanity Wrote: [...] They transposed that kaleidoscope of instantaneous, agitational chaos and found a center, which is love, kindness, family, forgiveness, and living with regret. 

I hated the hotdog universe, but I guess they were trying to highlight the absurdity of this world and juxtaposing it against our need to find happiness through each other...

Yah, I definitely got the sense of that at the end. That's why I described it as "old-fashioned Disney family movie on acid" to MR. The way-way-out style of some old French sci-fi movies from the late '60s to '90s flashed through my mind occasionally, too -- for some reason, but that's another tangent.


RE: Everything, Everywhere, All at Once - Magical Realist - Feb 13, 2023

Saw it yesterday. I did enjoy it. You really have to focus to keep up with the plot, but once you get it you can relax and enjoy what happens. I don't see it being best picture material though. A bit disjointed and too fast paced. Overly long too. Maybe more suitable for the younger generations.