Everything Everywhere All at Once
Came out; 2022
Time; 2 hours 19 Minutes
Watched: Netflix
Rated: R for some violence, sexual material and language
IMDB Rating; 7.8/10
Caution; Spoiler Alert
Staring;
Michelle Yeoh as Evelyn Wang
Stephanie Hsu as Joy Wang
Jamie Lee Curtis as Deidre Beaubeirdre
Ke Huy Quan as Waymond Wang
James Hong as Gong Gone
Tallie Medel as Becky Sregor
Story Line;
With her laundromat teetering on the brink of failure and her marriage to wimpy husband Waymond on the rocks, overworked Evelyn Wang struggles to cope with everything, including a tattered relationship with her judgmental father and daughter. And as if facing a gloomy midlife crisis wasn't enough, Evelyn must brace herself up for an unpleasant meeting with an impersonal bureaucrat: Deirdre, the shabbily dressed IRS auditor. However, as the stern agent loses patience, an inexplicable multiverse rift becomes an eye-opening exploration of parallel realities. Will Evelyn jump down the rabbit hole? But how many stars are in the universe? Can weary Evelyn fathom the irrepressible force of possibilities, tap into newfound powers, and prevent an evil entity from destroying the thin, countless layers of the unseen world?
Thoughts:
I've been watching movies while I work, this was on Netflix and going to be taken off soon. I decided to give this really long movie a chance.
It wasn't bad but I am so sick of the multiverse it's not even funny.
The acting was amazing! The cast was excellent, but I was confused the entire movie as to what was actually happening. There was zero separation on what was real and what wasn't.
CAUTION; Spoiler Alert
Evelyn
Quan Wang (Michelle Yeoh) is a middle-aged Chinese American immigrant
who runs a laundromat with her husband, Waymond (Ke Huy Quan); two
decades earlier, they eloped to the United States and had a daughter,
Joy (Stephanie Hsu). In the present day, the laundromat is being
audited by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS); Waymond is trying to
serve Evelyn divorce papers in an attempt to get her attention so
they can talk about their marriage; Evelyn's stern and demanding
father (referred to as Gong Gong (James Hong), Cantonese for
'grandfather') is visiting for her Chinese New Year party; and Joy is
dealing with depression and has a strained relationship with her
mother, which also includes Evelyn's reluctance to accept Joy's
lesbian relationship with her non-Chinese girlfriend Becky (Tallie
Medel).
At a tense
meeting with IRS inspector Deirdre Beaubeirdre (Jamie Lee Curtis),
Waymond's body is taken over by Alpha-Waymond, a version of Waymond
from the "Alphaverse." Alpha-Waymond explains to Evelyn
that many parallel universes exist because every life choice creates
a new alternative universe. The Alphaverse, led by the late
Alpha-Evelyn, developed "verse-jumping" technology, which
enables people to access the skills, memories, and bodies of their
parallel selves by performing bizarre actions that are statistically
unlikely. The multiverse is threatened by Jobu Tupaki (Alpha-Joy),
whose mind was splintered after Alpha-Evelyn pushed her to
extensively verse-jump; Jobu experiences all universes at once and
can verse-jump and manipulate matter at will. She has created a black
hole-like "everything bagel" topped with everything, which
appears as a Toroid singularity that could destroy the
multiverse.
Alpha-Evelyn made it the task of the alpha-verse
to find the one who can stand up to Jobu Tupaki. While Evelyn goes
into a different Universe, her body in the original universe stays,
but her mind is not there. This happens during the audit meeting with
Deirdre and the meeting is not going well. She says Evelyn is
charging her hobbies as business expenses, and can be charged for
fraud, or will have to pay a fine. In her confusion Evelyn strikes
Deirdre during the audit who calls security. Alpha-Waymond appears
again inside Waymond's body and helps Evelyn escape. They are still
trapped inside the IRS building as Dierdre from a tetra-verse appears
inside Dierdre's body and blocks their path.
Evelyn is given
verse-jumping technology by Alpha-Waymond to fight Jobu's minions,
who converge on the IRS building. She discovers other universes in
which she made different choices and flourished, such as becoming a
Kung Fu master and film star; she also learns of Waymond's plans with
the divorce papers. Evelyn uses her powers to defeat Alpha-Dierdre
and the other minions. Jobu Tupaki directs all the minions to the IRS
building in the original Evelyn's universe when she senses that
Evelyn has started gaining powers. Alpha-Waymond believes that
Evelyn, as the greatest "failure" of all Evelyns in the
multiverse, has the untapped potential to defeat Jobu. Gong Gong is
taken over by Alpha-Gong Gong, who instructs Evelyn to kill Joy to
stop Jobu from using her to enter Evelyn's universe. Evelyn refuses
and decides to face Jobu by gaining powers through repeated
verse-jumping. Evelyn believes that the only way to defeat Jobu
Tupaki is to become like her. Alpha-Gong Gong, convinced that
Evelyn's mind has been compromised like Jobu's, sends soldiers after
Evelyn. While they fight, Jobu locates and kills Alpha-Waymond in the
Alphaverse. As Jobu confronts Evelyn in her universe (she shows
Evelyn the real bagel black hole and tells her that the real truth is
that nothing matters), Evelyn's mind splinters, and she
collapses.
Evelyn uncontrollably verse-jumps alongside Jobu
across bizarre and diverse universes. Jobu reveals she does not want
to fight at all, but that instead, she has been searching for an
Evelyn who can see, as she does, that nothing matters, while killing
the Evelyns that do not agree with her. She brings Evelyn to the
everything bagel, explaining that she wants to use it to allow
herself and Evelyn to truly die. Upon looking into the bagel, Evelyn
is initially persuaded, and acts cruelly and Nihilistically in her
other universes, hurting those around her (she even signs the divorce
papers with Waymond and proceeds to destroy her own laundromat).
As
Evelyn is about to enter the bagel with Jobu, she pauses to listen to
Waymond's pleas in her universe for everybody to stop fighting and to
instead be kind, even when life does not make sense. In her home
universe, Evelyn reconciles with Waymond, accepts Joy and Becky's
relationship and tells Gong Gong of it, and talks with Deirdre after
Waymond convinces Deirdre to let them redo their taxes Evelyn has an
existentialist epiphany and decides to follow Waymond's absurdist and
humanist advice, using her multiverse powers to fight with empathy
and brings happiness to those around her; in doing so, she repairs
her damage in the other universes and neutralizes Alpha-Gong Gong and
Jobu's fighters. Jobu decides to enter the bagel alone while,
simultaneously in Evelyn's universe, Joy begs Evelyn to let her go.
Evelyn tells Joy that even when nothing makes sense and even though
she could be anywhere else in the multiverse, she would always want
to be with Joy. Evelyn and the others save Jobu from the bagel, and
Evelyn and Joy embrace.
Some time later, with the family's
relationships improved, they return to the IRS building to refile
their taxes. As Deirdre talks, Evelyn's attention is momentarily
drawn to her alternative selves, before she grounds herself back in
her home universe.
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