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Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
Give It a Second Try
The first time that I watched this movie, when it came out in 2022, I gave it a 6/10. I liked what it was going for, though it felt a little muddled towards the end, and was overall a bit too wacky and silly for my tastes.
Two years later, I revisited the movie, and was shocked by how much I enjoyed it, even from the very first moments I found myself entranced by the visuals and laughing at the cute little jokes that were being made, and all this was in the first ten minutes, before anything even got crazy. The whole experience was so overwhelming the first time that I saw it, that I forgot that even the calmer moments in the beginning were superbly well done.
The movie at times is still a little bit too silly for my tastes, but I think that maybe that's the point. In my personal interpretation, I think that the point of the silly and cringey moments, besides being entertainment value for people who like that kind of humor is to show that even in our darkest moments, the world around us doesn't care about setting a proper tone. Just because we are feeling depressed or alone doesn't mean that the world around us is going to turn into a film-noir, where the whole universe is as sad as we're feeling, to the point where it can feel like the world is mocking what we are going through with it's flagrant disregard for what we are going through, and in order to reach someone that is going through something really hard, you have to cut through all of that nonsense, and in order to do that you must first accept that all of this silliness is part of life, and that you're going to get nowhere fighting against the current. We need to be the caring ones, because nothing else is going to do it for us.
There is also the much more obvious points of Optimism overcoming Nihilism, love overcoming violence, and togetherness overcoming loneliness, but there's a fourth point that I couldn't quite parse until this second watch-through.
The ending of the film gets a bit murky with what it is going for in terms of messaging, or at least it seemed like it the first time that I saw it. She's letting her daughter go, but she's not, but she is, but she's not, until my second watch I couldn't figure out what it meant, but when I figured it out, it felt so obvious that I slapped myself in the head.
Despite everything, the daughter can't return to her mother, because it's not the right environment for her to be living in at the time, and it is only when the mother changes too, symbolized by her rock also falling off the cliff, that they reunite, and can be a true family once again.
If you watched this movie, and weren't the biggest fan of it, I implore you to give it another shot, you might end up liking it a lot more than before.