Everything Everywhere All at Once (Not a review)
An aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, in which she alone can save the world by exploring other universes connecting with the lives she could have led.
The paragraph above is the synopsis of not just one of the greatest movies to be released this year, but also one of the most intense emotional experiences I've had in a movie theatre, ever.
Reading the synopsis and watching the first minutes of the movie one is led to believe that this is a simple nonsensical comedy, but if not completely wrong it is so much more.
First let me say that while I will not spoil the movie, this text will probably not make a whole lot of sense to anyone who hasn't watched the movie, because I will barely focus on the plot, but on the impact it had in me, but let's begin.
The movie starts off by presenting us with the simple life of the main character, a middle aged women that owns a small business, is married and has a child and while not being a middle aged women nor owning a small business nor having and young adult child myself, the main character is very relatable, call it a middle age crisis, but we reach a point where we are haunted by this thought , half of my life is gone, my days are all the same, I'm ageing and it's probably all downhill from here, and then the dreadful “What if” comes. This movie, like many others before it, sure, plays with that “what if” extremely well, giving us a glimpse into other lives, other universes if something happened differently in the past, but again this is just a small part of the movie.
What follow is an absolute roller coaster of emotions a ride that forces you to face the complexities of the human existence, our relationships with each other, our flaws, our view on life and it is so well done that it makes us laugh, cry and even can fill our hearts with love.
It is so masterfully put in place that is able to raise complex philosophical questions, to shake your core and leave you with a nice warm felling while masking itself as a simple nonsensical comedy.
Brilliant