Everything, Everywhere, All at Once

[Magical Realist]

My favorite scene from the movie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vT0Y3k32QRE

[C C]

My favorite scene from the movie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vT0Y3k32QRE

Yah, does capture the essence of the movie title. Though for viewers it has to be depicted as extending through time as a sequence, rather than truly occurring or co-existing at once. That's the limitation of animal consciousness -- the individuated brain states it corresponds to can represent the degrees of freedom or the relational scheme of three dimensions as spatial (optical pictures and felt objects). But when it comes to information residing in higher dimensions, it has to break them up or cognitively discriminate those as well into 3D chunks that are short-lived happenings or changes.

OTOH, in theory one can't wholly rule out a short series of brain-states (belonging to a meditative monk, drugged-out psychonaut, etc) experiencing a rare transmundane or super-temporal apprehension of one's entire life (maybe even including parallel versions in multiple or all possible configurations of the universe). But some of it would have to be retained in memory to even know it happened, and due to the brain's limitations, it likewise would be highly deficit, constrained, and distorted with respect to the actual situation.

[Magical Realist]

"Living up to many predictions, "Everything Everywhere All at Once" took home seven Academy Awards tonight, including best picture and best director. Michelle Yeoh also won for best actress. Early winners for the night included Ke Huy Quan for best supporting actor and Jamie Lee Curtis for best supporting actress. The film came in strong with 11 nominations."----
https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/live...-rcna74374

[Yazata]

I hate to say it, but seven academy awards for this particular movie, including best picture, just demonstrates the increasing irrelevance and bankruptcy of the Academy Awards.

A few decades ago, the Oscars were must-watch TV and the whole country (and much of the world) tuned in. Today, fewer and fewer people even care.

I started this thread in the belief that this movie (which I never paid to see) was a quirky little picture best described as a potential cult-film.

Mainstream "Best Picture"?? Yeah, right..

[Magical Realist]

I agree it wasn't best picture material. Compared to other best pictures like Gone With The Wind, Ben Hur, Braveheart, To Kill A Mockingbird, Patton, and the Godfather, it just doesn't measure up to what we expect in that category. An artsy cult flick yes, but not best picture.

[Syne]

Sounds like an affirmative action award for a minority cast film. Trying to quell the "Oscars too white" crowd.

[Zinjanthropos]

Sounds like some people enjoyed the movie. Never saw it but now that it’s an Academy Award winner I’ll probably never see it. The other night while people were inside the local Bijou criminals were outside stealing 50 catalytic converters from their parked automobiles….no one saw that either. Movie? Theft? One of them deserves an award.

[C C]

'Everything Everywhere All At Once' is now the most celebrated sci-fi film in Oscar history
https://www.space.com/everything-everywh...ci-fi-film

Talk about a sci-fi injustice via social justice.

[Syne]

Yeah, that's bullshit.

[C C]

I hate to say it, but seven academy awards for this particular movie, including best picture, just demonstrates the increasing irrelevance and bankruptcy of the Academy Awards.

A few decades ago, the Oscars were must-watch TV and the whole country (and much of the world) tuned in. Today, fewer and fewer people even care.

I started this thread in the belief that this movie (which I never paid to see) was a quirky little picture best described as a potential cult-film.

Mainstream "Best Picture"?? Yeah, right..

I don't blame anyone associated with the movie itself. Congrats to them (and it really could have been a cult-film cutie for decades sans instead receiving the higher honors).

It's not their fault that Hollywood is a capitalist industry pretending to a Church of the Left Narrative that opportunistically bestows sainthood on certain projects to bolster its public image. If you've got a bunch of pretentiously guilty white people or general set of elites who want to intermittently shower you with awards, then by all means enjoy it and laugh all the way home.

I hope Michelle Yeoh kung-foos or sticks it to them a couple more times before 2030.