Everything Everywhere All at Once: How to be better people
Everything Everywhere All at Once is a special, sports filmmaking, with amicable high caliber performances, screenwriting, and editing, and is a must-see movie.
Evelyn starred by Michelle Yeo, gave one of the best performances of the year with emotional authenticity, as an unhappy and business-minded owner of a laundromat. Under her apartment as she tries to navigate all of the chaos in her life. Her marriage is failing, her relationship with her daughter is on the rocks, and she’s constantly doing whatever she can to earn back the love and respect from her father in the midst of an upcoming Chinese New Year party and the laundromat is also being audited.
We are put directly into the shoes of Evelyn as she discovers this infinite multiverse of worlds and abilities and opportunities, and see the disorientation through her eyes, with phenomenal emotional beats, which are perfectly blended in with the life of the narrative, kindness, depression, anxiety, regret, forgiveness, love and the importance of presence. This movie leaves behind the audience as a trainwreck, pulling all the heartstrings and teaching the audience how to be better people.
Evelyn and her husband Waymond ( Ke Huy Quan) of The Goonies and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom fame are summoned to a meeting with an IRS inspector, played by Jamie Lee Curtis. Written and directed by Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, is one of the few craziest works to ever get a wide release.
Playing Evelyn’s daughter is Stephanie Hsu who, like Quan is doing remarkable work while looking natural.
There are lots of juvenile gags, the screenplay will frequently circle back to them and invest them with poignance that wasn’t there initially.
I must warn you that you might be overwhelmed by the complete mastery of storytelling.