The film by Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan adds to overdose the recipes of the successful Hollywood spectacle.
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released in March in the United States, Everything Everywhere All at Once was, in a context of endless post-Cavid numbness, the beautiful surprise of this spring: with a limited number of screens, the film will have reported more 100 million dollars, becoming the biggest successes of the A24 production box, more known for its demanding author films (Ari Aster, the Safdie brothers) than for its breathtaking blockbusters.
The recipe for such success is registered from the title (“Everything, everywhere, at the same time”), the “Daniels” (Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan) patiently checked all the boxes of what we is able to demand from a great Hollywood spectacle: first 100 % Sino-American roles, following the cardboard by Crazy Rich Asians (2018), by Jon M. Chu, coming to repair decades of lack of visibility, film Baroque superhero and science fiction work as sibylline as a film signed Christopher Nolan, and, finally, family comedy.
It all starts on perfectly realistic land: that of an automatic laundromat run by the Wang family. Exhausted, Evelyn Wang juggles between the linen baskets and the administrative paperwork and fears the imminent arrival, from China, of her father. His coming is an opportunity to observe the sad spectacle offered by his: Waymond, her husband, has not yet had time to ask her for divorce, and her daughter Joy is, for the greatest misfortune of his mother, as a couple with a daughter.
las, Evelyn counts her failures, observes her American dream cruelly narrowed to washing. This first role is entrusted to Michelle Yeoh, a 60 -year -old Malaysian actress subscribed to action films – a strong choice. It is there that everything is complicated: one day, in front of the office of the tax inspector (Jamie Lee Curtis), Evelyn rocks in another dimension and meets an alternative version of her own husband who explains that ‘Besides reality (alphaverse), there are many parallel universes where other versions of self. The opportunity for Evelyn to discover that, in another world, she is a movie star, cook, lesbian with hot dogs instead of fingers … To this is added, necessarily, a danger: a certain jubu Tupaki (Evelyn’s own daughter), whose mind was celebrated through travel, threatens the integrity of the multiverse. In summary, the Wang family regulates their accounts straddling hundreds of different universes.
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