Written by: Sushant Nepal - 23044, Grade XII
Posted on: 24 August, 2022
Recently I watched the movie ‘EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE’. It is an absolute “tour de force” in every sense anyone could experience from a film. In a span of less than five minutes, you could experience laughter, joy, confusion, anger, depression, fear, etc. as the story tells itself. The visuals, camera work, acting, choreography, costumes, lighting, sound design, set designs, everything is flawlessly executed.
The story is about Michelle Yeoh who plays Evelyn, a Chinese-American woman who actually co-owns a laundromat shop with her husband Waymond (Ke Huy Quan) and family. Evelyn is dissatisfied with her life and has a tense relationship with her daughter Joy (Stephanie Hsu), using Joy’s weak and old-fashioned grandfather James Hong who plays Gong (who lives with them) as an excuse not to accept Joy’s lesbian identity. Evelyn reaches a mental crisis when confronted by an angry tax officer, Deirdre Beaubeirdra (Jamie Lee Curtis), who is auditing their business, and furious about Evelyn’s attempts to claim deductions for a karaoke machine for the laundromat’s community party nights, where Evelyn helds small party with food and drinks. In her heart, poor Evelyn figures she could have been a singer, or a chef, or a movie star in another universe (The Multiverse) and this tax-deduction issue triggers a crazy journey into any number of different universes for more than two hours.
I really loved the concept and the idea illustrated about an intermediate topic ‘The Multiverse’. Multiverse is a really vast and deep thing to actually portray. The best thing about the movie is its cinematography and the music used. EVERYTHING just feels real. It is one of the best sci-fi movies I’ve seen. I just think that it might be a little difficult to fully comprehend the movie for sci-fi amateur viewers but it is certainly a must watch kinda movie. I would personally rate it a 9.5 out of 10. The .5 I deducted is because at some point I really thought that some scenes are indeed stretched for no reason.
