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Everything Everywhere All at Once

By on September 4, 2022

An American absurdist comedy-drama Everything Everywhere All at Once will hit Japan’s big screen in March 2023.

It is a story of Evelyn Quan Wang, a Chinese American immigrant who runs a struggling laundromat with her husband, Waymond.

Tensions are high in their household. The couple has to file their taxes at their local IRS office because their laundromat’s business taxes are being questioned. Then there’s Evelyn’s elderly father who’s visiting from China, and her daughter, Joy who tried to introduce her girlfriend to him.

Evelyn has a strange encounter with Waymond, who warns her that the entire multiverse is in danger, and Evelyn may be the only person who can save it. She’s just one of many Evelyns across the multiverse, so in order to to attain her other selves’ skills, she’s going to have to learn how to find and absorb both wacky and mundane experiences of the other Evelyns throughout the multiverse. This includes switching shoes to the wrong feet, drinking half-and-half, and, at one point, Evelyn makes a mistake and finds a universe where everyone has creepy hot-dogs for fingers requiring them to use their feet for tasks normally done with hands.

Using all of her other versions’ skills, Evelyn is going to have to do all these fast, because something called the Jobu Tupaki has created a devastating black hole which threatens all of existence.

The plot synopsis is weird and unconventional. The strangeness allows the movie to tell a different kind of story, to emphasize and exaggerate different aspects of its characters, and it does it amusingly well.

Beneath all the insanity, the film explores touching family themes like marital issues, homophobia, depression, but with a focus on hope.

 

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