Everything Everywhere All at Once

(Hook). The movie is directed by the Daniels and stars Michelle Yeoh as Evelyn Wang, Stephanie Hsu as Joy Wang / Jobu Tupaki, Ke Huy Quan as Waymond Wang, with James Hong as Gong Gong, and Jamie Lee Curtis as Deirdre Beaubeirdra. The title of the motion picture is Everything Everywhere All at Once. What this title means in the context of the film is Evelyn traveling to alternate universes (Everywhere) that undergo any possible futures of her choices (Everything), and they all happen at the same time (All at Once). The film is split up into three parts, all at different lengths. The first part is titled “Part 1: Everything”, the second part is titled “Part 2: Everywhere”, and the last part is titled “Part 3: All at Once”. In each part, Evelyn deals with a conflict related to the title. In Part 1, she feels overstressed by acting as a caretaker for her dad, Gong Gong, who is from China. She deals with her 20ish-year-old daughter, who does a lot of actions that Evelyn likes, such as getting tattoos and coming out. She deals with IRS tax problems. While it may seem that Evelyn has a lot to deal with, everyone in the family tries to help her with these problems, but she gets mad at them for trying (Everything). In Part 2, she journeys across the multiverse, beginning to see her life as what it could have been or as an absurd version of it (Everywhere). In Part 3, she is now able to complete her taxes and connect with her daughter and father. When connecting with her father, she learns to appreciate her daughter for who she is instead of what she wants her to be. Lastly, the title Everything Everywhere All at Once relates to the ADHD directorial style the movie takes.

Dysfunctional family dynamics are a major theme in the movie Everything Everywhere All at Once. When one member of the dynamic doesn’t listen to the others, it creates a cycle of negativity that causes the destruction of the group and may endanger some members' mental health. The family dynamic in the film is between Evelyn, the matriarch, Waymond, Evelyn's husband, Joy, Evelyn’s daughter, and Gong Gong, Evelyn’s father. The dysfunction in the family is Evelyn’s rejection and mistreatment of Joy. The theme is developed through Evelyn’s odyssey of self-discovery when journeying through alternate worlds. It begins with Evelyn negating Joy for being gay. She does this because she's afraid that her father won't accept Joy's sexual orientation, and because of the nature of her authoritative beliefs. When traveling across the multiverse, Evelyn encounters Jobu Tupaki- a variant of Joy who was overtrained by Alpha Evelyn in Verse-Jumping. The training caused Jobu’s consciousness to experience every single one of her variants' daily lives all at once. The fragmentation of her consciousness caused Jobu to undergo massive agony. Jobu explains that undergoing this exhaustive suffering convinced her that life in all-encompassing reality is purposeless. So she constructs a gigantic bagel able to obliterate the entirety of Jobu’s variants. Afterward, Evelyn rejoins with her universe’s Joy, and the two, accompanied by the universe’s Waymond, share a family moment. Although Evelyn now believes that Jobu has remaining righteousness inside her, Alpha Gong Gong doesn’t and tries to assassinate Joy! Evelyn protects Joy from the assassination and has now stopped negating her for being gay.

A paragraph each week on a different theme in the film. At the end, you analyze the commonality: how do the themes link and what does it all add up to, even if it cannot be summarized within one framework (and maybe that’s the idea!).

Evelyn is a first-generation Chinese immigrant who is dissatisfied with her place in the world. She works as a laundromat manager with her husband, Waymond. She is a person who believes in direct action rather than gradual improvement and rejects emotional appeals. One day, she meets Waymond from an alternate universe, where he tells her that he needs her help to stop a great evil named Jobo from destroying the Multiverse. This plot element allows the viewer to enter Evelyn’s thought process as she travels to alternate Earths and looks back on her life choices. She looks back at her first decision of running away to China with her husband.

In a year where Hollywood has become increasingly unambitious, it's refreshing to see a film that boasts more originality, ambition, and a sense of purpose.

The central theme of Everything Everywhere All at Once is that one member of a group who doesn’t listen to the others creates a cycle of nihilism that causes the destruction of the other group members' mental health (groups are based on the harmony of members).

Waymond is a wide-eyed dreamer. He desperately wants to make his family and save his marriage with Evelyn. When they first arrive in America in the opening scene, he is fascinated by the laundromat washing machines, and this fascination persists at the movie's beginning. However, Evelyn is also fascinated, but not as much as Waymond, when they first arrive in America. When the movie begins, Evelyn has lost interest in washing machines and laundromats and wants to be able to pay off her taxes, while Waymond still enjoys them.

One day, Evelyn meets Alpha Waymond, who tells her that a great evil is coming and she is the only one who can stop it. She eventually travels through other universes, realizing what her life could have been like if she

WHEN YOU FINISH THE SUMMARY, YOU CAN START A BODY PARAGRAPH ON THE TOPICS THAT MAKE UP YOUR CLAIM.

Evelyn is the group's matriarch. James Hong was, and still is to a lesser extent, Evelyn’s patriarch. Evelyn disapproves of her daughter, Joy, coming out because she’s afraid that her father won't accept Joy. Evelyn also doesn’t accept Joy as gay because her beliefs are very similar to those of her father. On the other hand, Waymond accepts Joy as gay and is very friendly to her girlfriend, Becky, in contrast to Evelyn, who gives Joy a stern look whenever she sees her and Becky.

Later in the film, the villain is revealed as Jobo-Tobacky, a variant of Joy. In Jobo’s universe, the Alpha Universe, Alpha Evelyn discovered multiversal travel. She taught Jobo all of this, causing Jobo to experience every universe at the same time. Through years of having this pain, Jobo realizes that everything in the multiverse commits suicide in every variant of herself.

WITHIN THIS FRAMEWORK, THE FILMMAKERS CONCENTRATE ON SPECIFIC CHARACTERS AND HOW THEIR ACTIONS AFFECT THEIR GROUPS (FAMILY).

(Each individual in a group depend on the harmony/cooperation/behavior?) of all the other members.) She _ her husband, Waymond, for trying to make their daily lives a little more interesting by putting googly eyes on