Everything, Everywhere, All at Once

Last night I watched “Everything, Everywhere, All at Once”, starring Michelle Yeoh. The film is far and away more favorite film that I watched this year, and this has been a very good year for films so far. The film feels like a brilliantly low budget Matrix more in line with what the Wachowski’s seemed to have actually intended, compassionate and hopeful rather than violent and divisive. The film strikes a lot of cords related to mid-life crises and depression. The visual effects are brilliantly creative and original, they look both high budget and low budget somehow simultaneously. The cast is great as well. Michelle Yeoh is doing a lot of work as protagonist Evelyn, making her frustrated and showing her flaws without making her unlikeable. Ke Huy Quan is intensely likeable as Waymond Wong. Jamie Lee Curtis does a lot of heavy lifting playing the various versions of Deirdre Beaubeirdre. And James Hong is putting on a show as Gong Gong. All of the other actors are doing good work as well. And the editing and cinematography deserves special mention for their creativity as well, especially in the way scenes in different continuities are stitched together into a coherent narrative.

I get the sense that this film will be challenging for some, and entirely unwelcome and annoying for others. But if this film is indeed for you, then you will likely feels as though you’ve been waiting for it for your entire life. So I recommend watching it.