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I realize this is the real world and you obviously need to make money and monetize your time, but man was it a "that funny feeling" moment to get pitched some shaving products at the end of this very profound video.
"Before the beginning there was void. Nothing. No flesh. No rock. No air. No heat. No light. No dark. Nothing, save a single, perfect pearl. Within that pearl dreamed a mighty, unfathomable spirit-the One- Anu. Made of shining diamond. Anu was the sum of all things: good and evil, light and dark, physical and mystical, joy and sadness-all reflected across the crystalline facets of its form. And, within its eternal dream-state, Anu considered itself-all of its myriad facets. Seeking a state of total purity and perfection, Anu cast all evil from itself. All dissonance was gone. But what of the cast-off aspect of its being? The dark parts, the sharp, searing aspects of hate and pridefulness? Those could not remain in a state of separation, for all things are drawn to all things. All parts are drawn to the whole. Those discordant parts assembled into the Beast-the Dragon. Tathamet was his name-and he breathed unending death and darkness from his seven devouring heads. The Dragon was solely composed of Anu's cast-off aspects. The end sum of the whole became a singular Evil- the Prime Evil, from which all the vileness would eventually spread throughout existence. Though separate beings, Anu and the Dragon were bound together within the Pearl's shadowed womb. There they warred against each other in an unending clash of light and shadow for ages uncounted. The diamond warrior and the seven-headed dragon proved to be the equal of the other, neither ever gaining the upper hand in their fierce and unending combat-till at last, their energies nearly spent after countless millennia of battle, the two combatants delivered their final blows. The energies unleashed by their impossible fury ignited an explosion of light and matter so vast and terrible that it birthed the very universe all around us. All of the stars above and the darkness that binds them. All that we touch. All that we feel. All that we know. All that is unknown. All of it continues through the night and the day in the ebbing and flowing of the ocean tides and in the destruction of fire and the creation of the seed. Everything of which we are aware, and that of which we are utterly unaware, was created with the deaths of Anu and the Dragon, Tathamet. In the epicenter of reality lies Pandemonium, the scar of the universe's violent birth. At its chaotic center lay the Heart of Creation, a massive jewel unlike any other: the Eye of Anu- the Worldstone. It is the foundation stone of all places and times, a nexus of realities and vast, untold possibility. Anu and Tathamet are no more, yet their distinct essences permeated the nascent universe-and eventually became the bedrock of what we know to be the High Heavens and the Burning Hells. Anu's shining spine spun out into the primordial darkness, where it slowed and cooled. Over countless ages it formed into the Crystal Arch, around which the High Heavens took shape and form. Though Anu was gone, some resonance of it remained in the holy Arch. Spirits bled forth from it-shining angels of light and sound who embodied the virtuous aspects of what the One had been. Yet, despite the grace and beauty of this shining realm, it lacked the perfection of Anu's spirit. Anu had passed into a benevolent place beyond this broken universe- a paradise of which nothing is known and yet represents perhaps the greatest-kept secret of Creation. Longed for, but unimaginable." -THE DAWN, BOOK OF CAIN.
A quote the video reminded me of: “You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.” -Albert Camus
I love how the movie explores both types of nihilism. Jobu Tupaki represents negative nihilism: "nothing matters so why do anything or exist", whilst Evelyn represents positive nihilism: "nothing matters so why not choose what matters to you?". I think it's important to realise that anyone can choose their own path in life, by making a choice you reduce the chaos of our modern world
I'm of the opinion that everything matters as opposed to nothing matters. Instead of life having no meaning, I choose to subscribe to the idea that life has a superposition of infinite meanings, and we pick and choose which applies to us. The idea that meaning is just a fairytale simply doesn't sit well with me, positive or negative.
@@Karasamune I say whatever makes you happy or content or successful - whatever works for you, and that you can believe in, then by all means, do that. We don't really choose our beliefs. We each have a self, it interprets reality, and it arrives at the best set of advantages it can muster. But I would encourage you to wonder about why the most brilliant and the most clever among us are often the most tortured and broken. Why they are the best artists and inventors. No real point here, just something to consider. I've never met anyone who was incredibly satisfied with life who was anything but adequate in the mundane sense.
I don't think Evelyn represents positive nihilism, more that "nothing matters so I'll just keep doing what I'm doing" and that Waymond opens her up to that positive nihilism
i have never seen a movie that made me cry and laugh then cry again within minutes for such a long period of time like Everything Everywhere All At Once.
When I first saw this movie in theatres, I couldn't help but cry uncontrollably. It felt as if someone had finally understood my inner turmoil and painted it on the canvas of film; The fight to believe in meaning when it feels as if nothing matters at all.
Same, and I loved the way this video connects it to Bo Burnham's Inside, that's the only other film that's made me feel that way. The pandemic made us all so god damn online man.
Dude, same. I didnt realise how it was putting my mind into picture until the third act when you see how it affected everyone, and how I had felt all of those opinions myself. To listen to Evelyn say that there is nothing in the infinite universe of possibilities that she loves more than her daughter was mind-blowing to me because my biggest dream is to be able to say that about anything. To hear Waymond speak of how scary everything and how everyone is lost makes me cry because I feel the same. To see Jobu Topaki is scary because I know that deep down, part of me feels the same. I have watched this movie 3 times already and it still hits me like a truck because for how well it relates to my life, I'm still scared I won't find the same happy ending the movie did.
this movie is way too philosophical to be compared just to the internet. this film captures the true absurdity and randomness and chaos and terror about our existence in general. where nothing even matters at this point, anything is possible and anything can happen.
Yeah. I saw it more as the everything within a person who is at the same time being pushed inwards by the everything outside the person. And I have lived through that. And if you've been mentally ill or are neurodivergent, truly it feels like the universe is inside you sometimes. I don't know how to explain it. Could even be said that is the complexities of the human brain and human experience in a bagel + the outside world, too.
I don't think I had a more profound moment in a movie theater then when the laughter ceased in the rocks scene, to give in to a ponderous silence. Those new kinds of aesthetic experiences are what the hyper-textual entropy of our digital daily lives can gift us.
I don't think you are right about this. "Hyper-textual entropy of our digital daily lives can gift us". Can you explain what that means first of all, and what exactly is the movie telling us that is original or something people don't already believe in anyway. I would argue the movie does something different and much less profound. The directors already know that the message of the film is already that which most mainstream people in the western minded world believe, which is that "be nice", "be openminded", "don't overanalyze things", "accepts there are things you cannot change" etc. I think in a way the film could be interpreted as telling the viewer "Accept your lot in life", "Don't try to move up the social ladder." , "Don't try to make a lot of money." "Old people will die anyway, so don't care too much about them, care about making your children happy." Even using Michelle Yeoh's actual footage from her actress life as an alternate view of the main character's reality is a sort of strangely patronizing statement if you think about it since she is actually the real actress who plays the character. It is like a mockery of either the "immigrant experience" or of Chinese American experience. It suggests (without evidence in actual science yet) that whatever life you are experiencing is what you have, so know your place. Rich people are rich and they should not feel bad about the poor people around them, and that the poor people should keep toiling and be happy when they have other experiences even if they don't become rich, or achieve their previous goals.
@@StopFear Basically everything you said in your criticism just seems like you're projecting your own pessimistic cynicism onto the film. Virtually everyone in this comment section including myself interpreted the film as telling the viewer that if they think they are living their worst life and aren't good at anything, that only means there's even more possibilities and roads for them to take. "Stay in your place" was definitely not the message I got from the movie and I doubt the directors were going for that. The main theme of the movie seems to be that people living the worst lives have the most potential, the most "verse jumping points" as the movie puts it. "What exactly is the movie telling us that people don't know or believe anyway?" Well now you're just asking for the impossible lol, there's not a movie in existence that contains a completely original philisophical idea, nobody is claiming this movie invented anything, we're simply praising the effectiveness in which it conveys already existing ideas about the universe.
It’s very weird to be a film fan all my life, and to have seen thousands of films in my 40+ years, only to have Everything Everywhere All At Once become my favorite film of all time the very first time I saw it.
Is that really what a real "film fan" that has seen "thousands" in "40+ years" would say? What are some of your all-time favorites? Preferably in non-english languages
y'all contrarians here in the replies really determined to convince someone online that their personal feelings and opinion on a movie is wrong lmao also based OP, EEAAO is an instant classic
@@N0va Ridiculing the sensibilities of others with smugness, implying intellectual and cultural superiority + Supporting your argument by mentioning the intellectual biases determining the mental life of the other = Multiple layers of irony that should make your ego humble
While I agree that Everything Everywhere All At Once is about the internet and society's existential relationship with it, I also think that if you were to remove the filter of the internet from both the film and our experience, the story's meaning would be the same. This film isn't the first time I've seen the bagel with everything. It's a motif I've seen in other films (Annihilation comes to mind), as well as in my own psyche. For me personally, it reads as the end-result of over-analyzing the meaning/meaninglessness of existence. It's time and space forever getting lost up is own ass, only to be crapped out again. And as in EEAAO, Annihilation, and every other incarnation I've seen it in, both in philosophy, life, and art, it really just means stop overthinking things before you get lost, and get on with the here and now. At least, that's how I read it.
@@JoeJoe-lq6bd I mean, it is. The metaphor is pretty directly applicable. But that's the thing about metaphor. It's just a template for the audience to lay over what they find directly relevant to them, to find new connections in the patterns of life. But it's not the same thing as allegory, which is just a cipher of symbols that are only to be interpreted one specific way. So the film's version of the multiverse CAN be interpreted as a metaphor for the influence of the internet over our lives, complete with funny animal memes, movie references, and really weird porn. But that doesn't mean it HAS to be interpreted that way, or that this is the only interpretation. J.R.R. Tolkien preferred the notion that his stories were applicable to real world events, not allegories for them. Because applicability lies in the freedom of the reader, while allegory is the purposed domination of the author.
Personally I thought of it more of a metaphor for mental health and suicide. But I like this and love how it can interpreted in different ways. My favorite movie I’ve seen this year so far
It's based on absurdism; a philosophical response to nihilism proposed by Albert Camus. Faced with the human urge to search for meaning & the world's seeming meaninglessness, Camus states we have three options- actual suicide, philosophical suicide (a belief in a god or some abstract representation of it), or to revolt against it: accepting the contradiction between our search for meaning & the world's meaninglessness and choosing nonetheless to revel in every moment of existence, good or bad. This movie, like Camus, advocates for that choice.
Joy is represent that she has an idea of suicide. But She can't cause she can acknowledge and be in every universe that it unable to just die. Then she made the bagel and choose to suck it there into nothingness. And her perspective is close to nothing matters just a sad and meaningless life can cause you the suicide idea too.
I think that’s because joy is attempting to leave and Evelyn wants her to stay. The symbolism of the bagel being a dark void also adds to that feeling. I felt the same way but this added context just makes the metaphor that much more vibrant
I read this generationally when facing the idea of choices; Evelyn is reflecting on the choices she has made and feels trapped by them, while Joy has so many choices ahead of her and feels overwhelmed by them. Their disconnect drives the generational conflict in their family and builds the tension in the plot perfectly, being resolved when they find some common understanding of each other in the present.
It’s weird. I never interpreted it as the internet when I was watching the movie, but I still reached the same conclusion. I thought that at first Evelyn was so wrapped up in what was immediately in front of her that she couldn’t appreciate anything, it was always just something to deal with and move on from. Nothing mattered except that one thing she was dealing with at that moment. Then jobu tobacky takes the opposite approach, seeing everything everywhere in the universe existing all at once, all mattering, and reaches the conclusion that if every little thing matters, then none of it does. Life is just a game of statistics, nothing more, and so what’s the point in anything if everything in existence is there by random chance. Evelyn sees this approach and is almost sucked in when she has that conversation with waymond when he’s a businessman, and he tells her that he is a fighter by trying to just to be kind. This makes her realise that yes, nothing really matters, but that is alright because we are the ones who get to decide what actually matters to us. Nothing matters so we are free to do what we want and decide who we give our attention to
@@mewhen1l3mon98 personally for me I just felt so lost and alone. With few friends at the time and a lack of understanding and sense of self I really did question the point of life. I’m a person which needs goals and aspersions, things to strive for. But like Joy when faced with the overwhelm of life I just gave up "There is no point so why should i care" is a phrase I would often rattle off in my head. Its like choosing not to commit or try in life was better than the torment and discomfort of trying to really live life and find out what was important to me and what I wanted to commit to. It was only once I finished British secondary that after thinking about the question for years I realised "there's no point, but thats ok" it was a weird sudden realisation and since then its just been developing a sense of self and purpose. sorry if this was a bit rambly i have just woken up 😅 if you have any questions I will do my best to answer but I am a work in progress so yeah hopefully i dont disappoint.
Growing up in the internet has ingrained in me the love and desire to learn, but also a huge fear of the never-ending possibilities. Knowing that no matter what you do, you'll never be able to see it all (despite the internet literally allowing you to do exactly that) just horrifies me; the wasted potential scares me, so this video was exactly something I needed to hear today. Thank you so much.
Wow, you’re just like me. I try to do as much as I can with what God had gifted me. I’d hate to waste my potential. But you’re right when you say we can see it all
Hey, it's kinda the same with the cosmos at large. Using some pretty advanced tech, theoretically, we can go anywhere in space. But there's too much to ever do anything with it all.
I like how the movie's hypothesis for the technique to jump to other universes is doing something very unusual one would never do. I think this perfectly illustrate the ''magic happens outside of your comfort zone'' concept. Doing what we don't usually do can make us shift to another paradygm kind of thing.
i feel like its truly a testament to just how chronically online i am that i didnt even think the things that happened in the movie were THAT absurd and random while watching. like it wasnt until i finished it and went on to watch reaction and review videos and other content like these that it settled in that yea maybe some stuff were on the more unusual side. its genuinely crazy how desensitized ive become from basically living on the internet for years now that a lot of stuff doesnt faze me anymore
same, i think its because I have a few moments in my life where I could picture out scenarios in my head that are unimaginable that I made the same conclusion with this comment.
Having watched the movie like 4 hours ago, I consider myself to live a very similar life to what you just described (although I only use mainly TH-cam), and I still felt like most of the stuff in the movie was very out of place (in a good way, if that makes sense), but maybe it's just that you watch crazier shit than me
I saw this movie 2 times in a week. Instantly became my favourite of all time. My sister in law saw it, she said "it's good, but i don't understand whats fantastic about it" After some talking i reallised that the movie hits harder when you identify with the themes... If you really felt, in some point of your life, the existencialist void, the senseless of existence, and the urge to end it all just to get out of all that, then the movie will touch you right in the core. So probably if you are still in your 20's and never had the experience of existencial void, then it's just a jackie chan styled comedy.
I'm not so sure, I think you may underestimate to some extent, how often and in how many different ways and this 'feeling' can present itself and crop up in one's living experience, and what affects this can have on an individual, I think for one, it's something we are all collectively experiencing to varying degrees perhaps depending on how connected to the internet you feel, an unseen and hard to recognise force, once you shine a light on it, or begin to think about it, it changes, many pits of analysis paralysis just prevent further understanding of this on an individual level. I'm only 25, but I have been having these experiences since roughly 13, no doubt accelerated by drug experimentation for better or worse, but i've just stumbled across this channel, and across this video about a film i've yet to watch, and i'm extremely comforted that it's not simply me going crazy at times, and instead a very real phenomenon with very real world effects and implications. Not entirely sure this is related but it's as if time moves differently on the internet, and involvement in many sub cultures, understanding of in jokes, memes, over the years have meant that it has become as much as my own character, no longer being able to keep up with the pace of it now, and so now I feel quite genuinely lost.
Yeah I agree that the connection of the movie comes from having those experiences in real life and connecting to it through those experiences, but you don't have to be old to understand that feeling of existential dread and emptiness. I'm 18, and I connected to this movie a lot more strongly than my mom. I know a lot of people my age are feeling a communal sense of dread about life and our future, with so many things in the world going wrong. That's why my age so strongly related to Bo Burnham's Inside, and this movie about generational trauma, the internet, and nihilism. Young generations carry a lot more fear for our world than older generations give us credit for.
I agreed with you until the last sentence. I think us younger generations have had those existential crisis and viewing the world as vain and empty more than you have because of how rapid and fast paced the world has become and how we are exposed every day to every little detail of every corner of this world on the tip of our fingers. you try to adapt and accept what is new, only to find out that it became old news and irrelevant and things have changed once again, and how pressuring that can be. I think at your time you'd realize how much things changed every 10 years or so, now its like every year, heck every month even depending on what your focusing on and more so post-covid and with the global inflation that is happening
I am 17 years old and I know exactly what you are talking about. Thomas makes a really good point, the kids are speeding up and no one knows what to do about it.
I'm 16 and I cried more than I should have watching that movie...the rocks scene was my favorite, everything was so peaceful. I never realized how life was so busy and loud, and I never had time to sit down and just "be here" Not stuck in the past not paranoid of the future. No worries, no goals, no worries, nothing matters, Its perfect. I just want to be a rock lmao. I won't move or speak or need to eat, but still, I would feel alive and maybe even "happy". Be a rock 🗿
I never really noticed how much being raised on (by?) the internet has effected me until today. I feel like my 'clay pot' is leaking I suppose. I can barely shut my mind off to do something as simple as read a book or do my assignments, because I'm used to being so stimulated all the time. My mind is constantly racing with no breaks in between.
My attention span's only been getting better these past two months, which is funny because as a little kid, I could stare at the same thing for six hours straight. A good prescription after years of bad ones+a lot of journeying through forgotten memories and parts of myself got me to where I am. It's probably different for everyone, but what helps for me is not being in the same place too long. I go outside on walks or sit in my living room when at all possible. Irl socialization and making Internet use itself less stimulating (aka having few tabs open, keeping track of my time on certain things, finding new things to do online, avoiding short form content, etc) is also very useful. I'd also do a lot of internal thinking and reflecting and seek professional help. The right medication often makes a big difference, even though depending on where you live, that can be challenging. It's a very horrible problem to face, as not many people understand it at all and trying to solve it yourself when your brain is already in no mood for problem solving is insanely hard. Hopefully in the future, more mental healthcare focuses on attention span improvement. In the meantime, stay strong. It's a horrifying thing, but when you finally get your first few moments of internal peace after years of hanging on, it'll all be worth it in the end. Godspeed, my fellow human.
Me: this movie reminded me of my entire life, the choices I’ve made, the regrets, the heart breaks, the missed opportunities and the ones I took, made me feel at peace with where I am in life and pulled me out of my depression. Thomas: this reminded me of how I feel when I browse the internet
Jesus this just connected so many things in my brain that I've been thinking about lately in a way that I feel stupid for not realizing til now. I loved everything everywhere all at once but somehow didn't ever consciously understand that it was a metaphor for constant social media & internet overload til watching this. Lately I've felt like any time I spend too long on my phone I come away with this feeling of nothingness that's so pervasive and empty and solitary that I easily start to fall down that disconnected, nihilistic rabbit hole you're describing--but I start to feel a little better when I remind myself of how many other people are also feeling this way, and that some are turning that feeling into art in hopes to maybe help others (and themselves) dig there way out of it. Fuck man. Way to have your finger on the pulse with these videos, and consistently finding new and interesting ways to talk about movies. Cheers
We all feel this way sometimes. For me, just stepping outside helps so much. The sky doesn’t care about anything, the birds don’t know about my problems.. that’s strangely comforting
I think the internet metaphor definitely has credence because on twitter, one of the directors Daniel Kwan responded to a comment mentioning that they loved it but it would be quite hard to show the movie to their family due to the sexual stuff. Kwan responded saying that they thought about making it PG-13, but that the current younger generations are exposed to everything on the internet as children now and thought it should be included. (Full quote of Kwan's tweet below) "Yeah we had convos early on about whether or not the film could be PG13, but then we remembered the movie was a metaphor for the generation gap between us (who grew up on the internet, exposed to everything as children) and our parents. The sex stuff suddenly felt necessary."
This has been haunting me since I read "The Library of Babel" 30 years ago. If you have access to everything with no effort at all everything loses it's meaning. Even Heaven would relatively quickly turn into Hell, how many millennia would it take for us to fall into a state of catatonic ennui?
@@suteernachoudhury2845 yes but most people become faithful because they don't want to die, they want to go to Heaven. My point is that "going to Heaven" is no prize, it would be just another form of eternal suffering. _Any_ form of immortality where you don't have the option to _end_ your existence sooner or later would become a torment.
@@theboss3721 exactly! The fun part is striving to gather the stuff you need to build an amazing mansion/castle/whatever, otherwise it gets boring fast.
Well, that's the issue with thinking of eternity as endless duration. The Library of Babel is a reduced infinity of random symbolic variations, where meaning arises purely from the finite meaning-making capacities of the "reader." In all classical religious and philosophical thought, though, eternity has been understood as not only truly infinite (transcending spacetime) but properly intelligible, hence inexhaustibly meaningful.
Brilliantly articulated and relevant interpretation of the film! Associating EEAAO with Bo Burnham’s Inside makes so much sense now that I think about it.
I have never really been able to point out the right words to describe what feelings this movie gave me, and I really tried so hard since this movie is probably one of the fav of my life if not THE movie of my life. But this video points out exactly the right words. I experienced exactly what is described : - First, a fascination of the infinite possibilities discovered by growing with the Internet since my childhood - Then, around 20 years old, an immense feeling of nothing matters that could give me an infinite energy of life or the total opposite, a strong depression and feeling of nothingness. - Finally, it's been a year (I'm 25 now) that i'm doing an ultra focus on what is in front of me, on the reality I'm experiencing, and on what trully matters to ME. And it feels exactly like the end of the movie. Comforting, peaceful, not perfect or ideal but REAL and authentic. And on top of that, I am still deeply fascinated by the infinite possibilities of life, that I'm still discovering through the internet. But this time, I just feel like I can pick one of those possibilities, one that would fit to who I am, and fully appreciate it without thinking about other possibilities. Until I feel like I want to explore another one, which I do without asking myself any question. Chose your possibilities and the one that matters to you, appreciate the ones that life puts in front of you and the ones you did not chose.
Even though I’m still a young teen, I’ve still felt the feeling of nothing mattered, and that the universe was just a black hole waiting for us all to die. This movie hit hard for me, seeing all of the family dynamics, the pain of joys mom not seeing her for who she is. The way that the directors were able to make so many people relate to this amazing movie is incredible.
Loved loved loved this video. I never would have thought to make links between Everything Everywhere All At Once and the Internet but it makes so much sense. I think this movie resonated with so many people this year because it is so frantic and imaginative, and it leaves us with so many questions about our lives in the end. It made me laugh the hardest in a cinema in a long time and it was also so touching. It’s my favorite movie of the year. This essay was incredible and the addition of Bo Burnham’s Inside to the mix was absolutely perfect.
I've seen many people's reactions and takes on this movie and so far you are the only one to notice Waymond's role and it's importance. Thank you for pointing it out.
everyone interested in in-depth video essays on movies and cinema should be subscribed to this channel by now. One of the best creators in the genre atm. thx thomas!
Inside and everything everywhere all at once are two of my favorite pieces of art in recent years. Kudos to you for correlating them in such a clever way. Sublime stuff.
This probably explains why this movie resonated so hard with me but fell flat with others. I struggle so hard with the skills to be present irl that the internet is where it is easy to express myself and find what I am looking for. It starts to make the real world feel empty and unimportant just for you to be whiplashed back to the pressures of life that you've been ignoring. Being able to balance this dichotomy is your brain is hard to grapple with sometimes and that final message of "it's okay, nothing matters" in the movie really reminds me that life doesn't have to feel suffocating to me and that (at least in my situation. Hearts out to y'all in a physically restraining situation) I'm simply letting it suffocate me.
Human nature definitely seems like we are inclined to search and make sense of the mysteries of life so the internet is a perfect place for finding the answers to those mysteries but it ultimately creates more rabbit holes for those universes of confusion of the reason why things are the way they are. I get easily overwhelmed with things so it probably isn't the best to use the internet too often without truly questioning what purpose is it serving me. The internet is definitely a tool that you need to learn how to control or it can control your desires and urges.
You have perfectly articulated for me the culture of the internet growing today. What people call terminally online, the dangers of haveing it all at your fingertips. The growth of the blending of the online social life and social life in reality. Jobu Tupaki I think is ther perfect personification of a person that is terminally online, cynicism to the max.
Adored this video. I've seen it a couple times, and saw this film through the lens of combating existentialism, but through the lens of the internet it takes a more visceral, grounded meaning. Fantastic job, man. Keep doing what you do!
I am soo late to this but imo This movie actually depicted perfectly the depression and being lost feeling that i had. Joy not being understood until the end of the movie when her mom finally understands her and i broke down knowing that i never had that level of comfort and i never will from my mom. My mom who literally gave birth to my depression and loneliness from the beginning. And the scenes, the splitting frames, the mirror shattering was perfect. I have never felt this much emotion from any other movie ever since inside out. I watched this movie months ago and i still always break down whenever i think it. It felt chaotic and messy but its so fucking beautiful.
It kinda felt weird that, as a society, it kinda seems like we've become obsessed with multiverse story in the last years, I thinks we as humans always asked ourselves at some point "how much would my life be so different if I didn't or did do this thing", but it seems like our art, our stories have been reflecting more and more this dread of having wasted any opportunity life threw at us that could have made us happier, richer, better... But that's it, our exposure to a constant stream of experiences and alternative life paths, that the internet added into our everyday life, definetely plays a huge role in that...
Thomas, this was simply brilliant. You have a true gift for articulating complex ideas that we all humans share, especially through our artistic mediums. Thank you for this.
This is one of your best videos, it goes beyond just film technique (which is always incredible!) and ventured into actual describing our modern experience. Thank you putting words to this film and connecting it to Our experience, I always enjoy revisiting it, it’s message, and its many meanings/applications!
The part about acknowledging all the different realities but still understanding that ultimately your own reality is what matters was a real throwback to the little price and the bush of roses
I consider this to be one of the most beautifully crafted and conveyed movies of all time. To fit so much into such a simple story complexion is seemingly easy but also impossibly difficult. To truly put it, this movie is Everything everywhere all at once and I will forever be grateful for the experience of a millennium. To those who may not have seen it or haven't watched it for all of it's glory, I must say it's not for everyone. But I garuntee it will leave everyone speechless by the time the credits role. Cheers Daniel's you guys have peaked modern filmmaking🙏🏽
💯 This film will be discussed and referenced for decades. It's quietly powerful, and I am amazed at how many people openly wept when watching it in theatres (and on reaction videos!) Part of that power is the ability to cut through our cynicism like butter - then hold a mirror up to our faces. I feel bad for people who didn't like/hated the movie - the ones who want the *incredible* experience many of us had, but I suspect that some people don't have the ability to confront that mirror...👏👏👀🪨
This was so beautiful. Thank you for this. I've been in love with this movie since I first saw it, and I've been hesitant to watch/read much about it online, instead preferring to talk to people I know personally. Ironically, I think this helped me understand a bit about why. The movie is special to me and I didn't want every single possible opinion about it, I wanted to share the experience with a few select branches that would appreciate it the way I do. You gave me a little bit of new perspective here, and I appreciate that. 💙
I’ve never cried so hard to a movie, then I laughed my ass off, then topped that first cry, then repeat, for this movie to be rated everything but a 20/10 is a crime. This movie is the movie of this Era, perfectly explaining why you should care if nothing matters. I, like many contemplated my existence, this movie didn’t make me understand it made me better understand how I want to live my life. I love our earth, even if it’s in the tiniest part of the universe, I love not what crime or sin that exist here, but the kindness it can cultivate. I fight like waymond(corny as taht sounds). I don’t need a meaning, I just wnat to love and be kind. As I love this earth, I love myself and strive to do better. This movie I love this movie. It represents mankind at its best
Crying at a movie is so fucking pathetic. You think it's profound because it says "nothing matters"? Every edgy teen thinks this. You're like a teen thinking you connect so deeply with a stupid basic song. This has all been done before, like in hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy.
This is the most insightful, relatable and necessary interpretation of this film I have seen so far. Ever since watching this film I have been unable to understand why it has such a profound effect on me, and I think you just put it into words. Thank you so much!
I think something that has changed my relationship with the internet in the last year is instead of saying "constantly online" saying "terminally online." Sobers you up a little bit.
The more I reflect on EEAAO, the more I am sure that it is the best movie I've ever seen; I've thought about it everyday since I saw it over a month ago and you have just revealed to me yet another aspect of the film that I hadn't yet considered
What were your favorite films before seeing this? Because I can't for the life of me understand how this can be the best movie anyone's seen unless they don't watch a lot of movies.
@@nelisezpasce I could see that honestly. However I still think Parasite is a way better contribution to Cinema than this. I have a slight feeling most people won't remember EEAAO in a few years .
Some things are constants in the multiverse. There will always be an Evelyn and there will always be people seeking out youtube comments praising movies they don't understand so they can be killjoys
I have never felt as many different emotions, all at the same time, as when I watched Everything Everywhere all at once. I usually dont cry or laugh out loud during a movie, this was one of the few exceptions. My face was already hurting halfway through from laughing so much and during the climax I was shaking with tears. I have NEVER experienced a movie like this. And I certainly didn't think it would hit AS hard as it did the first time. Waymonds way of fighting is still stuck in my head and reminded me of one of my favorite philosophies: Albert Camus' Absurdism. Because if nothing matters, you can decide for yourself what matters
I can say seeing the major transformation of the internet as a super tech savvy guy myself born in 1998 I use the internet as a tool but am aware of how my peers are enveloped and overwhelmed by it. But going to many extremes and seeing how software and website codes work and going to the depths of tor browsers, anonymous social media and copycat websites, I respect the vastness of it and it’s calm. Know you’ll never be able to contemplate it fully but in the end it’s just a bunch of info stored on millions of computers all over the world that we made and built and now also got ai throwing their two cents into the mix.
as someone who didnt understand the movie at first, this just blew my mind. it makes all the sense. so interesting and brilliant, both the movie and this vid :)
The movie had a huge emotional impact on me. I know I like nihilism and existentialism, I know I like thinking about multiverses and infinite possibilities. It's like a cinematic version of Rick and Morty. But I hadn't connected it to Inside, or realized how the movie is really about living "on" the internet, and that really hits home. You make some great points and observations. I need to watch the movie, and this video, again. If I can just choose to ignore a few other things...
everytime I think about this movie,i will remember how much fun and how much adrenaline rush I gotten from the creativity from this .thx for the good and interesting video.
There's something about the transition from a conclusion about the realities of the attention economy into an add for a shaving subscription service that is more jarring than anything in Everything Everywhere All At Once
Great video essay, thanks for making it. Small correction: DALL-E 2 is by a company called OpenAI and is in limited invite-only beta access. Google’s recently-announced text-to-image AI model is called Imagen, and is currently unavailable to the public.
Hi, Andy! Thanks for the correction, you're totally right. (For some reason I keep thinking OpenAI is a Google project.) Longtime Waxy fan btw glad to have you here :)
I had never had a movie make me cry so hard before. I had to pause the movie because my sinuses clogged at the end. Even after watching it a second and third time, I still grew misty-eyed. There was something so earnest about this movie's take on nihilism. It always felt like movies dealing with it before were always so focused on the concept of "the infinite" that it became really easy to try and objectively take away what the movie wanted you to and leave it at that. This movie acknowledges all of that and still keeps love and heartache at the center of its message, and it's unreasonably effective at it too.
Just watched the movie today, and as much as I understand your interpretation and get how it is logical, I felt like it had a much deeper message, being purpose, meaning of existence, which are questions I very seriously got to consider not so long ago. Then again, everyone sees what they want to see, so you’re not irrelevant in any way. Great movie for sure!
Dude what a fantastic video. I loved this film and felt intensely moved by its message, but I was just thinking about it as a metaphor for the nihilism vs. optimism battle that takes place in the mind of anyone who reads often about modern science, astronomy, and how insignificant we are in the grand scheme of the universe. I didn't even CLOCK this entire other parallel of the internet going on here too, though I think I related to it without quite knowing, just as I did with Bo Burnham's "Inside", same as you. What a wonderful exploration of the effects of unparalleled access to all knowledge and happenings on a person whose mind was only evolved to grasp a tiny fraction of it all. An exploration that is utterly untrodden until these last couple of years. Thanks for this video! A great expression of an angle of this film that I had no idea about!
There’re so so much happening to me these last few years. I feel like I can see and feel it all at once. the coffee smell, Ai, wars, cars, the sound of pains, loves, hates, ants... it’s just too much and than I watched this movie last month when it came out and I think it kinda help me to calm for bit
I love the fact that the images you showed in the beginning was from midJourney v3. And today when the this masterpiece won the Oscars midJourney v5 was released and is way way beyond in quality than those examples
Brilliant video, Thomas! It made me think about postmodernism, and how the internet is almost like a manifestation of postmodernism. And whereas before this idea was something that the older generations could voluntarily muse over (if they were even aware of it), the younger generations that have grown up with the internet are forced to engage with this postmodern relativism; and perhaps too early, before they've had a chance to even try and form a foundational narrative of their own. Like trying to build a house on sand.
I always feel a bit disappointed when I see an analysis for this film that doesn’t touch on the fact that it’s effectively a metaphor for the experience of having ADHD. One of the directors has publicly spoken about how they decided that Evelyn (and by extension, Joy) would have undiagnosed ADHD, and that it was during the research process that he realised he had ADHD - and then went on to be diagnosed. It’s a fact that feels inextricable to the intention of the film, such that not factoring it in to an analysis of the film almost feels like missing the point. I know that it is not explicitly stated and is only communicated through subtext, and that not everyone is familiar enough with ADHD to identify it as a theme, but just thought it would be worth mentioning.
As an ADHDer I thank you for this comment. I didn't know this but I get it. Too many thoughts. Too many feelings. Then f*** it. I'm a nihilist. But what if...BEGIN AGAIN✨✨✨
eeaao is my favourite movie of all time and it was such a shame not to see it get the respect it deserved! great video! im rlly excited to see more content on it
Interesting, I didn’t read the movie like that at all, I had a more emotional/existential feeling after I saw it, I had to watch it two times to really take it all in
A stellar video! Curiously and ironically, I felt a slight relief that someone out there, in the swirling void of The Internet, has felt the same way about the movie and captured the same thoughts and fears that I had. Equally ironically, I know that I will give the video a like, leave a comment, and then scroll further without ever talking to this person with whom I felt this fleeting existential connection. Funny, that.
Great video! I'm grateful the movie wasn't more explicit about the connection to the internet. I connected on a very personal level with the movie through a different experience of my own, and don't think I would've if the movie had been a less veiled allegory.
This video honestly made me cry a bit, mostly because you are the first person to articulate that feeling of overwhelm as well as you did. For me, I think that my sort of shift was the first lockdown with covid, the sudden shift of 'oh my god, everyone is dealing with this and living their own individual lives.' I'm really happy I found this video. Thank you so much.
You've literally placed the words and explained why, to everything that I've been feeling lately. It's no wonder that this movie resonated within me so heavily.
thank you so much for this video! I've been struggling a lot with the pressure of thinking that everything needs to matter to me, and that I need to just consume consume consume all content related to anything I'm remotely interested in, scared that otherwise it would reflect badly on me if I hadn't consumed this or that piece of content. scared of others judgement and unstable self identity i guess haha. but it's been exhausting me and i've been feeling very overwhelmed. it's like you have to be 110% freaking out in excitement or breaking down in tears all the time because of something that's happening on the internet, and I don't know if it's sustainable to be going through such intense emotional whiplash 24/7. it's definitely fun to enjoy the content you consume, and i do feel the genuine excitement and sadness when things happen, but it takes up a lot of energy and on the internet theres no such thing as a break. but yes your analysis on EEAAO has been really really eye opening for me, i will take some of these lessons to heart, thank you!
Actually many of us boomers experienced this 50 years ago. My perception of 'reality' is clearly different from others who never used LSD. There is no such thing as 'reality'. Everyone's reality is different and ever changing. You cant fight it. Just be with it. The powers that be feared that effect and their loss of control over us and suppressed psychedelics but the internet has let it back out of the bag. Everything Everywhere All At Once is trippy.
Academic professors of psychology and cinema in Brazil are very interested in your work! They want to use it as material in class! Just letting you know! Good work!!!
being someone who is like not emotional at all and has never cried to any movie, this was the closest i've ever come to tears. and at the same time, i could be laughing out loud within minutes, genuinely amazing.
Brilliant commentary, gave me a whole new perspective on the film. And that's coming from someone who studies evolutionary media and has seen EEAOO probably half a dozen times at least. I consider it a masterpiece and the new reference. standard for complex metamodern and Integral works. Your essay helped concretize for me why it's hard going for a lot of older people who lack the "everything everywhere all at once" frame of the modern internet-bred mind.
I would say Arcade Fire's song "We Used to Wait" and their album "Everything Now" also articulated the same feeling(s) that EEAAO and Bo Burnham's Inside. Anyone have other examples?
This is the video I've been needing for a while now. It's a scary subject matter... Great video, keep it up! Should I thank you or the internet for this video? 😅 PS. Even the shaving ad is tailored for my needs, as I was literally complaining about bad razors yesterday.
as mentioned in the video, the movie made me think of bo's welcome to the internet lyrics too: "may i interest you in everything, all of the time . . . apathy's a tragedy and boredom is a crime" we forget to take in the simple things in life and have misconstrued them as failings, and we are eternally unhappy because of it. In the case of Evelyn, cherising her days doing mundane tasks like laundry and taxes with her googly-eyed loving husband has proved to be infinitely fulfilling if she just allowed herself to see that it is.
Thank you very much for this analysis. As a movie lover for many years I was worrying a lot about my dissatisfaction and confusion about movies like "Don't look up" or "Nope" and of course "Everything, everywhere all at once". I didn't understand the mix of film genres, the lack of a specific intention, the bizarre or grotesque details alongside beauty or tenderness. But you It has given me important aspects and criteria that I had not considered. Thank you very much for this path that you have offered me.
This is exactly what I thought when I left the film, and as soon as you started the video I thought of Bo Burnham and "Welcome to the Internet". I don't feel particularly hopeful about any of it at the moment but I really aspire to.
This movie was brilliant. I tried getting my friend to watch it. But he was drunk about 10 minutes in and just talked through the whole thing, then kept not knowing wtf was going on.
Excellent stuff, as always. To be a human is to be finite, to be in flesh, and to be particular; the “everything, everywhere, all at once” effect of living with an omnipresent internet is ultimately dehumanizing. How shall we then live? I’m not sure this film gives anything close to a satisfying answer (to resign oneself to meaninglessness is just as dehumanizing as attempting to take in “everything, everywhere, all at once”), but it’s certainly asking the right questions.
What I personally got out of this movie is that the answer to everything is connection. Connection with things and events but most of all other people, finding comfort in their company and their presence. One can often endure the worst of it as long as they've got a hand to hold. To be alone is devastating. This is, of course, not easy. If it was, we'd all be much better off. It takes an incredible amount of work and a lot of reducing one's scope. But Joy was searching for Evelyn through all of this noise, to find someone else to share her pain, or else someone who she would walk into the bagel with so that she wasn't alone. Waymond begged Evelyn to be kind, to connect with her opponents on some level so that nobody had to or wanted to fight. Evelyn said to Joy, "despite it all, I still want to be here with you." She hugged Deidre and told her she's not unlovable and hugged her and shared a hit off of her vape. Waymond gives her cookies. Rocks falling and worlds colliding was on equal measure with a hug in a parking lot. Over and over, connection is the answer to the conflicts in this movie. This movie is the biggest "I love you" I've ever seen in my life. It's practically jumping up and down and screaming it. When everything matters, nothing matters, so what you do is you pick what matters, and the only way through is to say that everything does. Everything, as in focusing on the importance of things that are small. Sharing oranges with your friends. Baking them bread. Putting googly eyes on the laundry bag, because it's silly, and it's fun, and it makes people smile. Being thrilled to find the TV remote. Singing karaoke. Making your wife guess what song you're tapping into the desk bell. There's a poem called "The Orange" by Wendy Cope. Short, but my comment's already long enough. Worth looking at, maybe?
@@laurelcrown9293 yeah, this is it. The video, while being very good, missed the point of the movie which is, as you say, that connection is what is important. Their own finitude and the randomness of their existence disappear when they consider that the moments they have with each other matter, and I would argue matter inherently at least to the characters within the film. Besides we don’t know what the next thing we find will be, even if will most likely only make us feel smaller and less significant, but it offers hope. The closing of the movie is basically be kind to each other and appreciate your moments together and if you need hope, that’s always there too.
I think the answer is quite clear: to endow meaning to the little bit of sense you make of your finite experience of the infinite, and to live it as deeply as you can - rather than forever searching for meaning or the end of meaning, while the present slips away.
@@ThomasFlight everyone knows the real answer to the multiverse is, . . . . Booty~ ° For u philosophers. The veil lifting is inevitable, So why not get a bit sweaty and have some fun.
It's been a while since I watched this film, but your video found me at the right moment. I was going to comment how I recently finished reading Marshall McLuhan's The Medium is a Massage, only to hear you quote him at the end of the video. Absolute chills. It was such a surreal experience, some kind of play on rhetoric by the universe watching your video. Subscribed!
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I realize this is the real world and you obviously need to make money and monetize your time, but man was it a "that funny feeling" moment to get pitched some shaving products at the end of this very profound video.
@@ahawks81 reality is often quite funny if not simple
"Before the beginning there was void. Nothing. No flesh. No rock. No air. No heat. No light. No dark. Nothing, save a single, perfect pearl.
Within that pearl dreamed a mighty, unfathomable spirit-the One- Anu. Made of shining diamond.
Anu was the sum of all things: good and evil, light and dark, physical and mystical, joy and sadness-all reflected across the crystalline facets of its form. And, within its eternal dream-state, Anu considered itself-all of its myriad facets.
Seeking a state of total purity and perfection, Anu cast all evil from itself. All dissonance was gone.
But what of the cast-off aspect of its being? The dark parts, the sharp, searing aspects of hate and pridefulness?
Those could not remain in a state of separation, for all things are drawn to all things. All parts are drawn to the whole.
Those discordant parts assembled into the Beast-the Dragon.
Tathamet was his name-and he breathed unending death and darkness from his seven devouring heads.
The Dragon was solely composed of Anu's cast-off aspects. The end sum of the whole became a singular Evil- the Prime Evil, from which all the vileness would eventually spread throughout existence.
Though separate beings, Anu and the Dragon were bound together within the Pearl's shadowed womb. There they warred against each other in an unending clash of light and shadow for ages uncounted.
The diamond warrior and the seven-headed dragon proved to be the equal of the other, neither ever gaining the upper hand in their fierce and unending combat-till at last, their energies nearly spent after countless millennia of battle, the two combatants delivered their final blows.
The energies unleashed by their impossible fury ignited an explosion of light and matter so vast and terrible that it birthed the very universe all around us.
All of the stars above and the darkness that binds them. All that we touch. All that we feel. All that we know. All that is unknown.
All of it continues through the night and the day in the ebbing and flowing of the ocean tides and in the destruction of fire and the creation of the seed.
Everything of which we are aware, and that of which we are utterly unaware, was created with the deaths of Anu and the Dragon, Tathamet.
In the epicenter of reality lies Pandemonium, the scar of the universe's violent birth.
At its chaotic center lay the Heart of Creation, a massive jewel unlike any other: the Eye of Anu- the Worldstone.
It is the foundation stone of all places and times, a nexus of realities and vast, untold possibility.
Anu and Tathamet are no more, yet their distinct essences permeated the nascent universe-and eventually became the bedrock of what we know to be the High Heavens and the Burning Hells.
Anu's shining spine spun out into the primordial darkness, where it slowed and cooled. Over countless ages it formed into the Crystal Arch, around which the High Heavens took shape and form.
Though Anu was gone, some resonance of it remained in the holy Arch. Spirits bled forth from it-shining angels of light and sound who embodied the virtuous aspects of what the One had been.
Yet, despite the grace and beauty of this shining realm, it lacked the perfection of Anu's spirit.
Anu had passed into a benevolent place beyond this broken universe- a paradise of which nothing is known and yet represents perhaps the greatest-kept secret of Creation.
Longed for, but unimaginable."
-THE DAWN, BOOK OF CAIN.
Nassim Haramein have got the bagel
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A quote the video reminded me of:
“You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.” -Albert Camus
Beautiful quote
I love Albert Camus. He was actually the “chef de fil” of the philosophical movement that drives the film. Absurdism
How is that in any way "profound"?
@@StopFear who said it was?
You are everything experiencing everything.
I love how the movie explores both types of nihilism. Jobu Tupaki represents negative nihilism: "nothing matters so why do anything or exist", whilst Evelyn represents positive nihilism: "nothing matters so why not choose what matters to you?".
I think it's important to realise that anyone can choose their own path in life, by making a choice you reduce the chaos of our modern world
I'm of the opinion that everything matters as opposed to nothing matters. Instead of life having no meaning, I choose to subscribe to the idea that life has a superposition of infinite meanings, and we pick and choose which applies to us. The idea that meaning is just a fairytale simply doesn't sit well with me, positive or negative.
@@Karasamune I say whatever makes you happy or content or successful - whatever works for you, and that you can believe in, then by all means, do that.
We don't really choose our beliefs. We each have a self, it interprets reality, and it arrives at the best set of advantages it can muster.
But I would encourage you to wonder about why the most brilliant and the most clever among us are often the most tortured and broken. Why they are the best artists and inventors.
No real point here, just something to consider. I've never met anyone who was incredibly satisfied with life who was anything but adequate in the mundane sense.
This reply section is awesome so far. Just different points being shared in an approachable and civil fashion. I like this part of the internet.
@@calowenby1654 Every once in a while that does happen despite massive evidence to the contrary. Cheers.
I don't think Evelyn represents positive nihilism, more that "nothing matters so I'll just keep doing what I'm doing" and that Waymond opens her up to that positive nihilism
i have never seen a movie that made me cry and laugh then cry again within minutes for such a long period of time like Everything Everywhere All At Once.
But man I make entertaining vids as well
Love this movie so much, and your EEAAO reaction video is one of my all time faves!
I raise you The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
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People share with me which film are you talking about
When I first saw this movie in theatres, I couldn't help but cry uncontrollably. It felt as if someone had finally understood my inner turmoil and painted it on the canvas of film; The fight to believe in meaning when it feels as if nothing matters at all.
Praying for you because you must be terminally dumb.
Good for you, I guess...
Same, and I loved the way this video connects it to Bo Burnham's Inside, that's the only other film that's made me feel that way. The pandemic made us all so god damn online man.
Dude, same. I didnt realise how it was putting my mind into picture until the third act when you see how it affected everyone, and how I had felt all of those opinions myself. To listen to Evelyn say that there is nothing in the infinite universe of possibilities that she loves more than her daughter was mind-blowing to me because my biggest dream is to be able to say that about anything. To hear Waymond speak of how scary everything and how everyone is lost makes me cry because I feel the same. To see Jobu Topaki is scary because I know that deep down, part of me feels the same. I have watched this movie 3 times already and it still hits me like a truck because for how well it relates to my life, I'm still scared I won't find the same happy ending the movie did.
@@SCharlesDennicon unecessarily snooty reply
this movie is way too philosophical to be compared just to the internet. this film captures the true absurdity and randomness and chaos and terror about our existence in general. where nothing even matters at this point, anything is possible and anything can happen.
Yeah. I saw it more as the everything within a person who is at the same time being pushed inwards by the everything outside the person. And I have lived through that. And if you've been mentally ill or are neurodivergent, truly it feels like the universe is inside you sometimes. I don't know how to explain it.
Could even be said that is the complexities of the human brain and human experience in a bagel + the outside world, too.
@@nitzeartas a ND I truly get what you mean. Very well worded.
You missed the point of the movie if you still think “nothing even matters”
@@officialtbhoopswell no. if nothing matters, everything matters. that was also a theme tackled in the movie.
I also think this movie covers broader than the internet issue. It is questioning existence and exploring the meaning of life.
I don't think I had a more profound moment in a movie theater then when the laughter ceased in the rocks scene, to give in to a ponderous silence. Those new kinds of aesthetic experiences are what the hyper-textual entropy of our digital daily lives can gift us.
I don't think you are right about this. "Hyper-textual entropy of our digital daily lives can gift us". Can you explain what that means first of all, and what exactly is the movie telling us that is original or something people don't already believe in anyway. I would argue the movie does something different and much less profound. The directors already know that the message of the film is already that which most mainstream people in the western minded world believe, which is that "be nice", "be openminded", "don't overanalyze things", "accepts there are things you cannot change" etc. I think in a way the film could be interpreted as telling the viewer "Accept your lot in life", "Don't try to move up the social ladder." , "Don't try to make a lot of money." "Old people will die anyway, so don't care too much about them, care about making your children happy."
Even using Michelle Yeoh's actual footage from her actress life as an alternate view of the main character's reality is a sort of strangely patronizing statement if you think about it since she is actually the real actress who plays the character. It is like a mockery of either the "immigrant experience" or of Chinese American experience. It suggests (without evidence in actual science yet) that whatever life you are experiencing is what you have, so know your place. Rich people are rich and they should not feel bad about the poor people around them, and that the poor people should keep toiling and be happy when they have other experiences even if they don't become rich, or achieve their previous goals.
The stark silence in the theater during that sequence is always incredible
@@settingittowumbo1953 it wasn't just a break for the characters, it was a break for the audience. A moment of peace in the midst of the chaos
@@StopFear Basically everything you said in your criticism just seems like you're projecting your own pessimistic cynicism onto the film. Virtually everyone in this comment section including myself interpreted the film as telling the viewer that if they think they are living their worst life and aren't good at anything, that only means there's even more possibilities and roads for them to take. "Stay in your place" was definitely not the message I got from the movie and I doubt the directors were going for that. The main theme of the movie seems to be that people living the worst lives have the most potential, the most "verse jumping points" as the movie puts it.
"What exactly is the movie telling us that people don't know or believe anyway?"
Well now you're just asking for the impossible lol, there's not a movie in existence that contains a completely original philisophical idea, nobody is claiming this movie invented anything, we're simply praising the effectiveness in which it conveys already existing ideas about the universe.
what the hell does hyper-textual entropy mean, I've never even heard those words before
It’s very weird to be a film fan all my life, and to have seen thousands of films in my 40+ years, only to have Everything Everywhere All At Once become my favorite film of all time the very first time I saw it.
Very weird indeed. So many better films out there.
Is that really what a real "film fan" that has seen "thousands" in "40+ years" would say?
What are some of your all-time favorites? Preferably in non-english languages
y'all contrarians here in the replies really determined to convince someone online that their personal feelings and opinion on a movie is wrong lmao
also based OP, EEAAO is an instant classic
@@MajoraWaffle It's called recency bias. It'll fade quick.
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Ridiculing the sensibilities of others with smugness, implying intellectual and cultural superiority + Supporting your argument by mentioning the intellectual biases determining the mental life of the other = Multiple layers of irony that should make your ego humble
While I agree that Everything Everywhere All At Once is about the internet and society's existential relationship with it, I also think that if you were to remove the filter of the internet from both the film and our experience, the story's meaning would be the same. This film isn't the first time I've seen the bagel with everything. It's a motif I've seen in other films (Annihilation comes to mind), as well as in my own psyche. For me personally, it reads as the end-result of over-analyzing the meaning/meaninglessness of existence. It's time and space forever getting lost up is own ass, only to be crapped out again. And as in EEAAO, Annihilation, and every other incarnation I've seen it in, both in philosophy, life, and art, it really just means stop overthinking things before you get lost, and get on with the here and now. At least, that's how I read it.
I like the connection to Annihilation- (another movie I also love). I definitely think it's possible to see the bagel without the internet.
Yeah, it's not about the internet at all.
I like this perspective
@@JoeJoe-lq6bd I mean, it is. The metaphor is pretty directly applicable. But that's the thing about metaphor. It's just a template for the audience to lay over what they find directly relevant to them, to find new connections in the patterns of life. But it's not the same thing as allegory, which is just a cipher of symbols that are only to be interpreted one specific way.
So the film's version of the multiverse CAN be interpreted as a metaphor for the influence of the internet over our lives, complete with funny animal memes, movie references, and really weird porn. But that doesn't mean it HAS to be interpreted that way, or that this is the only interpretation.
J.R.R. Tolkien preferred the notion that his stories were applicable to real world events, not allegories for them. Because applicability lies in the freedom of the reader, while allegory is the purposed domination of the author.
same as the graphic novel 'the Nao of Brown', they also use washing machines as ensos in that book
Personally I thought of it more of a metaphor for mental health and suicide. But I like this and love how it can interpreted in different ways. My favorite movie I’ve seen this year so far
it represents both :) thats why its so genius
It's based on absurdism; a philosophical response to nihilism proposed by Albert Camus. Faced with the human urge to search for meaning & the world's seeming meaninglessness, Camus states we have three options- actual suicide, philosophical suicide (a belief in a god or some abstract representation of it), or to revolt against it: accepting the contradiction between our search for meaning & the world's meaninglessness and choosing nonetheless to revel in every moment of existence, good or bad. This movie, like Camus, advocates for that choice.
Joy is represent that she has an idea of suicide. But She can't cause she can acknowledge and be in every universe that it unable to just die. Then she made the bagel and choose to suck it there into nothingness. And her perspective is close to nothing matters just a sad and meaningless life can cause you the suicide idea too.
cool maybne I should watch it then cuz I know if John Stevens like it then it must be good cuz he has very nice taste.
I think that’s because joy is attempting to leave and Evelyn wants her to stay. The symbolism of the bagel being a dark void also adds to that feeling. I felt the same way but this added context just makes the metaphor that much more vibrant
I read this generationally when facing the idea of choices; Evelyn is reflecting on the choices she has made and feels trapped by them, while Joy has so many choices ahead of her and feels overwhelmed by them. Their disconnect drives the generational conflict in their family and builds the tension in the plot perfectly, being resolved when they find some common understanding of each other in the present.
It’s weird. I never interpreted it as the internet when I was watching the movie, but I still reached the same conclusion. I thought that at first Evelyn was so wrapped up in what was immediately in front of her that she couldn’t appreciate anything, it was always just something to deal with and move on from. Nothing mattered except that one thing she was dealing with at that moment. Then jobu tobacky takes the opposite approach, seeing everything everywhere in the universe existing all at once, all mattering, and reaches the conclusion that if every little thing matters, then none of it does. Life is just a game of statistics, nothing more, and so what’s the point in anything if everything in existence is there by random chance. Evelyn sees this approach and is almost sucked in when she has that conversation with waymond when he’s a businessman, and he tells her that he is a fighter by trying to just to be kind. This makes her realise that yes, nothing really matters, but that is alright because we are the ones who get to decide what actually matters to us. Nothing matters so we are free to do what we want and decide who we give our attention to
The nihilistic outlook of the daughter was something I resonated with strongly as it was something I really struggled with in my teens.
I am 24, Took years and still somewhat exists..dont know if it ever leaves
It never really leaves. You just learn to deal (or don't).
This.
As a teen, I kind of wonder how does that feel. Would you mind to explain that to me?
@@mewhen1l3mon98 personally for me I just felt so lost and alone. With few friends at the time and a lack of understanding and sense of self I really did question the point of life. I’m a person which needs goals and aspersions, things to strive for. But like Joy when faced with the overwhelm of life I just gave up "There is no point so why should i care" is a phrase I would often rattle off in my head. Its like choosing not to commit or try in life was better than the torment and discomfort of trying to really live life and find out what was important to me and what I wanted to commit to.
It was only once I finished British secondary that after thinking about the question for years I realised "there's no point, but thats ok" it was a weird sudden realisation and since then its just been developing a sense of self and purpose.
sorry if this was a bit rambly i have just woken up 😅 if you have any questions I will do my best to answer but I am a work in progress so yeah hopefully i dont disappoint.
Growing up in the internet has ingrained in me the love and desire to learn, but also a huge fear of the never-ending possibilities. Knowing that no matter what you do, you'll never be able to see it all (despite the internet literally allowing you to do exactly that) just horrifies me; the wasted potential scares me, so this video was exactly something I needed to hear today. Thank you so much.
Wow, you’re just like me. I try to do as much as I can with what God had gifted me. I’d hate to waste my potential. But you’re right when you say we can see it all
You won't see it all, but humanity can. That's all that matters.
Hey, it's kinda the same with the cosmos at large. Using some pretty advanced tech, theoretically, we can go anywhere in space. But there's too much to ever do anything with it all.
I like how the movie's hypothesis for the technique to jump to other universes is doing something very unusual one would never do. I think this perfectly illustrate the ''magic happens outside of your comfort zone'' concept. Doing what we don't usually do can make us shift to another paradygm kind of thing.
“In another life I would’ve liked to do just laundry with you” destroyed me
I made a poster of it and stuck it in my room
i feel like its truly a testament to just how chronically online i am that i didnt even think the things that happened in the movie were THAT absurd and random while watching. like it wasnt until i finished it and went on to watch reaction and review videos and other content like these that it settled in that yea maybe some stuff were on the more unusual side. its genuinely crazy how desensitized ive become from basically living on the internet for years now that a lot of stuff doesnt faze me anymore
Very sorry for you.
I know what you mean. What all does faze you nowadays?
Well said.
same, i think its because I have a few moments in my life where I could picture out scenarios in my head that are unimaginable that I made the same conclusion with this comment.
Having watched the movie like 4 hours ago, I consider myself to live a very similar life to what you just described (although I only use mainly TH-cam), and I still felt like most of the stuff in the movie was very out of place (in a good way, if that makes sense), but maybe it's just that you watch crazier shit than me
“Understand what DOESN’T matter to you” that was powerful. Thank you.
I saw this movie 2 times in a week. Instantly became my favourite of all time.
My sister in law saw it, she said "it's good, but i don't understand whats fantastic about it"
After some talking i reallised that the movie hits harder when you identify with the themes...
If you really felt, in some point of your life, the existencialist void, the senseless of existence, and the urge to end it all just to get out of all that, then the movie will touch you right in the core.
So probably if you are still in your 20's and never had the experience of existencial void, then it's just a jackie chan styled comedy.
I'm not so sure, I think you may underestimate to some extent, how often and in how many different ways and this 'feeling' can present itself and crop up in one's living experience, and what affects this can have on an individual, I think for one, it's something we are all collectively experiencing to varying degrees perhaps depending on how connected to the internet you feel, an unseen and hard to recognise force, once you shine a light on it, or begin to think about it, it changes, many pits of analysis paralysis just prevent further understanding of this on an individual level.
I'm only 25, but I have been having these experiences since roughly 13, no doubt accelerated by drug experimentation for better or worse, but i've just stumbled across this channel, and across this video about a film i've yet to watch, and i'm extremely comforted that it's not simply me going crazy at times, and instead a very real phenomenon with very real world effects and implications.
Not entirely sure this is related but it's as if time moves differently on the internet, and involvement in many sub cultures, understanding of in jokes, memes, over the years have meant that it has become as much as my own character, no longer being able to keep up with the pace of it now, and so now I feel quite genuinely lost.
Yeah I agree that the connection of the movie comes from having those experiences in real life and connecting to it through those experiences, but you don't have to be old to understand that feeling of existential dread and emptiness. I'm 18, and I connected to this movie a lot more strongly than my mom. I know a lot of people my age are feeling a communal sense of dread about life and our future, with so many things in the world going wrong. That's why my age so strongly related to Bo Burnham's Inside, and this movie about generational trauma, the internet, and nihilism. Young generations carry a lot more fear for our world than older generations give us credit for.
I agreed with you until the last sentence. I think us younger generations have had those existential crisis and viewing the world as vain and empty more than you have because of how rapid and fast paced the world has become and how we are exposed every day to every little detail of every corner of this world on the tip of our fingers. you try to adapt and accept what is new, only to find out that it became old news and irrelevant and things have changed once again, and how pressuring that can be. I think at your time you'd realize how much things changed every 10 years or so, now its like every year, heck every month even depending on what your focusing on and more so post-covid and with the global inflation that is happening
I am 17 years old and I know exactly what you are talking about. Thomas makes a really good point, the kids are speeding up and no one knows what to do about it.
I'm 16 and I cried more than I should have watching that movie...the rocks scene was my favorite, everything was so peaceful. I never realized how life was so busy and loud, and I never had time to sit down and just "be here" Not stuck in the past not paranoid of the future. No worries, no goals, no worries, nothing matters, Its perfect. I just want to be a rock lmao. I won't move or speak or need to eat, but still, I would feel alive and maybe even "happy".
Be a rock 🗿
I never really noticed how much being raised on (by?) the internet has effected me until today. I feel like my 'clay pot' is leaking I suppose. I can barely shut my mind off to do something as simple as read a book or do my assignments, because I'm used to being so stimulated all the time. My mind is constantly racing with no breaks in between.
My attention span's only been getting better these past two months, which is funny because as a little kid, I could stare at the same thing for six hours straight. A good prescription after years of bad ones+a lot of journeying through forgotten memories and parts of myself got me to where I am.
It's probably different for everyone, but what helps for me is not being in the same place too long. I go outside on walks or sit in my living room when at all possible. Irl socialization and making Internet use itself less stimulating (aka having few tabs open, keeping track of my time on certain things, finding new things to do online, avoiding short form content, etc) is also very useful. I'd also do a lot of internal thinking and reflecting and seek professional help. The right medication often makes a big difference, even though depending on where you live, that can be challenging.
It's a very horrible problem to face, as not many people understand it at all and trying to solve it yourself when your brain is already in no mood for problem solving is insanely hard. Hopefully in the future, more mental healthcare focuses on attention span improvement. In the meantime, stay strong. It's a horrifying thing, but when you finally get your first few moments of internal peace after years of hanging on, it'll all be worth it in the end. Godspeed, my fellow human.
Me: this movie reminded me of my entire life, the choices I’ve made, the regrets, the heart breaks, the missed opportunities and the ones I took, made me feel at peace with where I am in life and pulled me out of my depression.
Thomas: this reminded me of how I feel when I browse the internet
Jesus this just connected so many things in my brain that I've been thinking about lately in a way that I feel stupid for not realizing til now. I loved everything everywhere all at once but somehow didn't ever consciously understand that it was a metaphor for constant social media & internet overload til watching this. Lately I've felt like any time I spend too long on my phone I come away with this feeling of nothingness that's so pervasive and empty and solitary that I easily start to fall down that disconnected, nihilistic rabbit hole you're describing--but I start to feel a little better when I remind myself of how many other people are also feeling this way, and that some are turning that feeling into art in hopes to maybe help others (and themselves) dig there way out of it. Fuck man. Way to have your finger on the pulse with these videos, and consistently finding new and interesting ways to talk about movies. Cheers
We all feel this way sometimes. For me, just stepping outside helps so much. The sky doesn’t care about anything, the birds don’t know about my problems.. that’s strangely comforting
I think the internet metaphor definitely has credence because on twitter, one of the directors Daniel Kwan responded to a comment mentioning that they loved it but it would be quite hard to show the movie to their family due to the sexual stuff. Kwan responded saying that they thought about making it PG-13, but that the current younger generations are exposed to everything on the internet as children now and thought it should be included. (Full quote of Kwan's tweet below)
"Yeah we had convos early on about whether or not the film could be PG13, but then we remembered the movie was a metaphor for the generation gap between us (who grew up on the internet, exposed to everything as children) and our parents. The sex stuff suddenly felt necessary."
This has been haunting me since I read "The Library of Babel" 30 years ago. If you have access to everything with no effort at all everything loses it's meaning. Even Heaven would relatively quickly turn into Hell, how many millennia would it take for us to fall into a state of catatonic ennui?
I had the same conclusion when I went into creative mode in Minecraft
Heaven and Hell are just biblical terms... they don't actually exist.
@@suteernachoudhury2845 yes but most people become faithful because they don't want to die, they want to go to Heaven. My point is that "going to Heaven" is no prize, it would be just another form of eternal suffering. _Any_ form of immortality where you don't have the option to _end_ your existence sooner or later would become a torment.
@@theboss3721 exactly! The fun part is striving to gather the stuff you need to build an amazing mansion/castle/whatever, otherwise it gets boring fast.
Well, that's the issue with thinking of eternity as endless duration. The Library of Babel is a reduced infinity of random symbolic variations, where meaning arises purely from the finite meaning-making capacities of the "reader." In all classical religious and philosophical thought, though, eternity has been understood as not only truly infinite (transcending spacetime) but properly intelligible, hence inexhaustibly meaningful.
Brilliantly articulated and relevant interpretation of the film!
Associating EEAAO with Bo Burnham’s Inside makes so much sense now that I think about it.
I have never really been able to point out the right words to describe what feelings this movie gave me, and I really tried so hard since this movie is probably one of the fav of my life if not THE movie of my life.
But this video points out exactly the right words. I experienced exactly what is described :
- First, a fascination of the infinite possibilities discovered by growing with the Internet since my childhood
- Then, around 20 years old, an immense feeling of nothing matters that could give me an infinite energy of life or the total opposite, a strong depression and feeling of nothingness.
- Finally, it's been a year (I'm 25 now) that i'm doing an ultra focus on what is in front of me, on the reality I'm experiencing, and on what trully matters to ME. And it feels exactly like the end of the movie. Comforting, peaceful, not perfect or ideal but REAL and authentic.
And on top of that, I am still deeply fascinated by the infinite possibilities of life, that I'm still discovering through the internet. But this time, I just feel like I can pick one of those possibilities, one that would fit to who I am, and fully appreciate it without thinking about other possibilities. Until I feel like I want to explore another one, which I do without asking myself any question.
Chose your possibilities and the one that matters to you, appreciate the ones that life puts in front of you and the ones you did not chose.
I went through the same process
Even though I’m still a young teen, I’ve still felt the feeling of nothing mattered, and that the universe was just a black hole waiting for us all to die. This movie hit hard for me, seeing all of the family dynamics, the pain of joys mom not seeing her for who she is. The way that the directors were able to make so many people relate to this amazing movie is incredible.
Loved loved loved this video. I never would have thought to make links between Everything Everywhere All At Once and the Internet but it makes so much sense. I think this movie resonated with so many people this year because it is so frantic and imaginative, and it leaves us with so many questions about our lives in the end. It made me laugh the hardest in a cinema in a long time and it was also so touching. It’s my favorite movie of the year. This essay was incredible and the addition of Bo Burnham’s Inside to the mix was absolutely perfect.
I've seen many people's reactions and takes on this movie and so far you are the only one to notice Waymond's role and it's importance. Thank you for pointing it out.
I recommend checking out the video about Waymond by the channel Pop Culture Detective
everyone interested in in-depth video essays on movies and cinema should be subscribed to this channel by now. One of the best creators in the genre atm. thx thomas!
Inside and everything everywhere all at once are two of my favorite pieces of art in recent years. Kudos to you for correlating them in such a clever way. Sublime stuff.
This probably explains why this movie resonated so hard with me but fell flat with others. I struggle so hard with the skills to be present irl that the internet is where it is easy to express myself and find what I am looking for. It starts to make the real world feel empty and unimportant just for you to be whiplashed back to the pressures of life that you've been ignoring. Being able to balance this dichotomy is your brain is hard to grapple with sometimes and that final message of "it's okay, nothing matters" in the movie really reminds me that life doesn't have to feel suffocating to me and that (at least in my situation. Hearts out to y'all in a physically restraining situation) I'm simply letting it suffocate me.
Human nature definitely seems like we are inclined to search and make sense of the mysteries of life so the internet is a perfect place for finding the answers to those mysteries but it ultimately creates more rabbit holes for those universes of confusion of the reason why things are the way they are. I get easily overwhelmed with things so it probably isn't the best to use the internet too often without truly questioning what purpose is it serving me. The internet is definitely a tool that you need to learn how to control or it can control your desires and urges.
You have perfectly articulated for me the culture of the internet growing today. What people call terminally online, the dangers of haveing it all at your fingertips. The growth of the blending of the online social life and social life in reality. Jobu Tupaki I think is ther perfect personification of a person that is terminally online, cynicism to the max.
Adored this video. I've seen it a couple times, and saw this film through the lens of combating existentialism, but through the lens of the internet it takes a more visceral, grounded meaning. Fantastic job, man. Keep doing what you do!
It's so interesting how many lenses this movie can be viewed through :D
*combating nihilism
I am soo late to this but imo This movie actually depicted perfectly the depression and being lost feeling that i had. Joy not being understood until the end of the movie when her mom finally understands her and i broke down knowing that i never had that level of comfort and i never will from my mom. My mom who literally gave birth to my depression and loneliness from the beginning. And the scenes, the splitting frames, the mirror shattering was perfect. I have never felt this much emotion from any other movie ever since inside out. I watched this movie months ago and i still always break down whenever i think it. It felt chaotic and messy but its so fucking beautiful.
It kinda felt weird that, as a society, it kinda seems like we've become obsessed with multiverse story in the last years, I thinks we as humans always asked ourselves at some point "how much would my life be so different if I didn't or did do this thing", but it seems like our art, our stories have been reflecting more and more this dread of having wasted any opportunity life threw at us that could have made us happier, richer, better... But that's it, our exposure to a constant stream of experiences and alternative life paths, that the internet added into our everyday life, definetely plays a huge role in that...
Thomas, this was simply brilliant. You have a true gift for articulating complex ideas that we all humans share, especially through our artistic mediums. Thank you for this.
This is one of your best videos, it goes beyond just film technique (which is always incredible!) and ventured into actual describing our modern experience. Thank you putting words to this film and connecting it to Our experience, I always enjoy revisiting it, it’s message, and its many meanings/applications!
Just a small note: "Dall-E 2" is Open AI's image generator, not Google's. "Imagen" is the one by Google, and right, not avail for public.
Dear Thomas, thank you very much for this great Video!
The part about acknowledging all the different realities but still understanding that ultimately your own reality is what matters was a real throwback to the little price and the bush of roses
This is the best description of Everything Everywhere All At Once's tone. It's tonal whiplash definitely reflects internet culture
Check out the video by Like Stories of Old, it's an extremely good compliment to this video
@@IdealisticDog I did, great video, thanks anyway!
I consider this to be one of the most beautifully crafted and conveyed movies of all time. To fit so much into such a simple story complexion is seemingly easy but also impossibly difficult. To truly put it, this movie is Everything everywhere all at once and I will forever be grateful for the experience of a millennium. To those who may not have seen it or haven't watched it for all of it's glory, I must say it's not for everyone. But I garuntee it will leave everyone speechless by the time the credits role. Cheers Daniel's you guys have peaked modern filmmaking🙏🏽
💯 This film will be discussed and referenced for decades. It's quietly powerful, and I am amazed at how many people openly wept when watching it in theatres (and on reaction videos!) Part of that power is the ability to cut through our cynicism like butter - then hold a mirror up to our faces. I feel bad for people who didn't like/hated the movie - the ones who want the *incredible* experience many of us had, but I suspect that some people don't have the ability to confront that mirror...👏👏👀🪨
@@arcticgoddess exactly. They see all but they are deadly scared of, and refuse It.
This was so beautiful. Thank you for this. I've been in love with this movie since I first saw it, and I've been hesitant to watch/read much about it online, instead preferring to talk to people I know personally. Ironically, I think this helped me understand a bit about why. The movie is special to me and I didn't want every single possible opinion about it, I wanted to share the experience with a few select branches that would appreciate it the way I do. You gave me a little bit of new perspective here, and I appreciate that. 💙
I’ve never cried so hard to a movie, then I laughed my ass off, then topped that first cry, then repeat, for this movie to be rated everything but a 20/10 is a crime. This movie is the movie of this Era, perfectly explaining why you should care if nothing matters.
I, like many contemplated my existence, this movie didn’t make me understand it made me better understand how I want to live my life. I love our earth, even if it’s in the tiniest part of the universe, I love not what crime or sin that exist here, but the kindness it can cultivate. I fight like waymond(corny as taht sounds). I don’t need a meaning, I just wnat to love and be kind. As I love this earth, I love myself and strive to do better. This movie I love this movie. It represents mankind at its best
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Crying at a movie is so fucking pathetic. You think it's profound because it says "nothing matters"? Every edgy teen thinks this. You're like a teen thinking you connect so deeply with a stupid basic song. This has all been done before, like in hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy.
Loving and being kind IS the meaning your are searching for. The movie does not encourage the audience to feel that nothing matters.
This is the most insightful, relatable and necessary interpretation of this film I have seen so far. Ever since watching this film I have been unable to understand why it has such a profound effect on me, and I think you just put it into words. Thank you so much!
I think something that has changed my relationship with the internet in the last year is instead of saying "constantly online" saying "terminally online." Sobers you up a little bit.
The more I reflect on EEAAO, the more I am sure that it is the best movie I've ever seen; I've thought about it everyday since I saw it over a month ago and you have just revealed to me yet another aspect of the film that I hadn't yet considered
What were your favorite films before seeing this? Because I can't for the life of me understand how this can be the best movie anyone's seen unless they don't watch a lot of movies.
@@N0va Probably virtue signalling since the cast is "diverse"
Same reason why Parasite got praised to high heavens, to appear more "accepting"
@@nelisezpasce I could see that honestly. However I still think Parasite is a way better contribution to Cinema than this. I have a slight feeling most people won't remember EEAAO in a few years .
@@nelisezpasce or maybe they just like it? Not everything is about virtue signalling and diversity.
Some things are constants in the multiverse. There will always be an Evelyn and there will always be people seeking out youtube comments praising movies they don't understand so they can be killjoys
I have never felt as many different emotions, all at the same time, as when I watched Everything Everywhere all at once. I usually dont cry or laugh out loud during a movie, this was one of the few exceptions. My face was already hurting halfway through from laughing so much and during the climax I was shaking with tears. I have NEVER experienced a movie like this. And I certainly didn't think it would hit AS hard as it did the first time.
Waymonds way of fighting is still stuck in my head and reminded me of one of my favorite philosophies: Albert Camus' Absurdism. Because if nothing matters, you can decide for yourself what matters
Thomas Flight, you have a beautiful mind. Phenomenal review/critique. Spot on. Insightful. Thanks.
Just saw this and oh my God I can't believe I waited so long. What an absolute balls-to-the-wall triumph.
I can say seeing the major transformation of the internet as a super tech savvy guy myself born in 1998 I use the internet as a tool but am aware of how my peers are enveloped and overwhelmed by it. But going to many extremes and seeing how software and website codes work and going to the depths of tor browsers, anonymous social media and copycat websites, I respect the vastness of it and it’s calm. Know you’ll never be able to contemplate it fully but in the end it’s just a bunch of info stored on millions of computers all over the world that we made and built and now also got ai throwing their two cents into the mix.
as someone who didnt understand the movie at first, this just blew my mind. it makes all the sense. so interesting and brilliant, both the movie and this vid :)
The movie had a huge emotional impact on me. I know I like nihilism and existentialism, I know I like thinking about multiverses and infinite possibilities. It's like a cinematic version of Rick and Morty. But I hadn't connected it to Inside, or realized how the movie is really about living "on" the internet, and that really hits home. You make some great points and observations. I need to watch the movie, and this video, again. If I can just choose to ignore a few other things...
This is possibly one of the best videos that I almost in a surreal way most resonate within the deepest parts of myself, it's beautiful! ❤️
everytime I think about this movie,i will remember how much fun and how much adrenaline rush I gotten from the creativity from this .thx for the good and interesting video.
There's something about the transition from a conclusion about the realities of the attention economy into an add for a shaving subscription service that is more jarring than anything in Everything Everywhere All At Once
Yea, he should have text on screen as soon as it starts lol
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Great video essay, thanks for making it. Small correction: DALL-E 2 is by a company called OpenAI and is in limited invite-only beta access. Google’s recently-announced text-to-image AI model is called Imagen, and is currently unavailable to the public.
Hi, Andy! Thanks for the correction, you're totally right. (For some reason I keep thinking OpenAI is a Google project.) Longtime Waxy fan btw glad to have you here :)
@@ThomasFlight Oh wow, thanks so much! Love your channel! ❤️❤️
I had never had a movie make me cry so hard before. I had to pause the movie because my sinuses clogged at the end. Even after watching it a second and third time, I still grew misty-eyed. There was something so earnest about this movie's take on nihilism. It always felt like movies dealing with it before were always so focused on the concept of "the infinite" that it became really easy to try and objectively take away what the movie wanted you to and leave it at that. This movie acknowledges all of that and still keeps love and heartache at the center of its message, and it's unreasonably effective at it too.
For the love of cinema, life, emotions and thought provoking narration, I subscribed.
It’s legit one of the best videos I’ve seen in years on this platform
Even the razor advert at the end felt beautifully absurd
Just watched the movie today, and as much as I understand your interpretation and get how it is logical, I felt like it had a much deeper message, being purpose, meaning of existence, which are questions I very seriously got to consider not so long ago. Then again, everyone sees what they want to see, so you’re not irrelevant in any way. Great movie for sure!
All that talk about the internet then razor commercial, just perfect
Dude what a fantastic video. I loved this film and felt intensely moved by its message, but I was just thinking about it as a metaphor for the nihilism vs. optimism battle that takes place in the mind of anyone who reads often about modern science, astronomy, and how insignificant we are in the grand scheme of the universe.
I didn't even CLOCK this entire other parallel of the internet going on here too, though I think I related to it without quite knowing, just as I did with Bo Burnham's "Inside", same as you. What a wonderful exploration of the effects of unparalleled access to all knowledge and happenings on a person whose mind was only evolved to grasp a tiny fraction of it all. An exploration that is utterly untrodden until these last couple of years.
Thanks for this video! A great expression of an angle of this film that I had no idea about!
this is the only video in existence that has all three: Everything Everywhere All At Once, Bo Burnham and Jeffree Star.
This is the best analyses of it I've seen yet🙏🏽
Great video! That film spoke to me like no other piece had before, and your thoughts brought even more new meaning to my perspective.
There’re so so much happening to me these last few years. I feel like I can see and feel it all at once. the coffee smell, Ai, wars, cars, the sound of pains, loves, hates, ants... it’s just too much and than I watched this movie last month when it came out and I think it kinda help me to calm for bit
This was a beautiful video about a fantastic movie. Thank you for putting words to how I felt about it so eloquently.
I love the fact that the images you showed in the beginning was from midJourney v3. And today when the this masterpiece won the Oscars midJourney v5 was released and is way way beyond in quality than those examples
You nailed it dude. Congratulations!
Brilliant video, Thomas!
It made me think about postmodernism, and how the internet is almost like a manifestation of postmodernism. And whereas before this idea was something that the older generations could voluntarily muse over (if they were even aware of it), the younger generations that have grown up with the internet are forced to engage with this postmodern relativism; and perhaps too early, before they've had a chance to even try and form a foundational narrative of their own. Like trying to build a house on sand.
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So glad he made this vid 😁👌
Love the Bo Burnham call-out. That special still deeply resonates.
"A little bit of everything all of the time"
I always feel a bit disappointed when I see an analysis for this film that doesn’t touch on the fact that it’s effectively a metaphor for the experience of having ADHD. One of the directors has publicly spoken about how they decided that Evelyn (and by extension, Joy) would have undiagnosed ADHD, and that it was during the research process that he realised he had ADHD - and then went on to be diagnosed. It’s a fact that feels inextricable to the intention of the film, such that not factoring it in to an analysis of the film almost feels like missing the point. I know that it is not explicitly stated and is only communicated through subtext, and that not everyone is familiar enough with ADHD to identify it as a theme, but just thought it would be worth mentioning.
As an ADHDer I thank you for this comment. I didn't know this but I get it. Too many thoughts. Too many feelings. Then f*** it. I'm a nihilist. But what if...BEGIN AGAIN✨✨✨
@@quietcell I feel you
As a fellow adhd, this makes complete sense. This film felt like a description of me.
@@GenericTallGuy same feeling here.
Millennials want everything to be about the internet, because it's the only battleground most of them have or will ever witness.
eeaao is my favourite movie of all time and it was such a shame not to see it get the respect it deserved! great video! im rlly excited to see more content on it
Has to be one of the best videos on the internet!
Interesting, I didn’t read the movie like that at all, I had a more emotional/existential feeling after I saw it, I had to watch it two times to really take it all in
A stellar video! Curiously and ironically, I felt a slight relief that someone out there, in the swirling void of The Internet, has felt the same way about the movie and captured the same thoughts and fears that I had. Equally ironically, I know that I will give the video a like, leave a comment, and then scroll further without ever talking to this person with whom I felt this fleeting existential connection. Funny, that.
Great video! I'm grateful the movie wasn't more explicit about the connection to the internet. I connected on a very personal level with the movie through a different experience of my own, and don't think I would've if the movie had been a less veiled allegory.
Thomas Flight you are my favorite person on the Internet. Thank you for doing what you are doing.
This video honestly made me cry a bit, mostly because you are the first person to articulate that feeling of overwhelm as well as you did. For me, I think that my sort of shift was the first lockdown with covid, the sudden shift of 'oh my god, everyone is dealing with this and living their own individual lives.' I'm really happy I found this video. Thank you so much.
You've literally placed the words and explained why, to everything that I've been feeling lately. It's no wonder that this movie resonated within me so heavily.
thank you so much for this video! I've been struggling a lot with the pressure of thinking that everything needs to matter to me, and that I need to just consume consume consume all content related to anything I'm remotely interested in, scared that otherwise it would reflect badly on me if I hadn't consumed this or that piece of content. scared of others judgement and unstable self identity i guess haha. but it's been exhausting me and i've been feeling very overwhelmed. it's like you have to be 110% freaking out in excitement or breaking down in tears all the time because of something that's happening on the internet, and I don't know if it's sustainable to be going through such intense emotional whiplash 24/7. it's definitely fun to enjoy the content you consume, and i do feel the genuine excitement and sadness when things happen, but it takes up a lot of energy and on the internet theres no such thing as a break. but yes your analysis on EEAAO has been really really eye opening for me, i will take some of these lessons to heart, thank you!
Actually many of us boomers experienced this 50 years ago. My perception of 'reality' is clearly different from others who never used LSD. There is no such thing as 'reality'. Everyone's reality is different and ever changing. You cant fight it. Just be with it. The powers that be feared that effect and their loss of control over us and suppressed psychedelics but the internet has let it back out of the bag. Everything Everywhere All At Once is trippy.
Academic professors of psychology and cinema in Brazil are very interested in your work! They want to use it as material in class! Just letting you know! Good work!!!
This was the best thing I’ve seen on TH-cam all year. Thank you for this.
being someone who is like not emotional at all and has never cried to any movie, this was the closest i've ever come to tears. and at the same time, i could be laughing out loud within minutes, genuinely amazing.
Brilliant commentary, gave me a whole new perspective on the film. And that's coming from someone who studies evolutionary media and has seen EEAOO probably half a dozen times at least. I consider it a masterpiece and the new reference. standard for complex metamodern and Integral works. Your essay helped concretize for me why it's hard going for a lot of older people who lack the "everything everywhere all at once" frame of the modern internet-bred mind.
I would say Arcade Fire's song "We Used to Wait" and their album "Everything Now" also articulated the same feeling(s) that EEAAO and Bo Burnham's Inside. Anyone have other examples?
Thank you, for making quality content like this. Back in the days, you would have been considered as a philosopher.
Everything every where all at once is very smart, creative, meaningful and philosophical film
This was an amazing analysis, especially the parallels to bo burnham. I had chills sometimes. Thank you
This is the video I've been needing for a while now. It's a scary subject matter...
Great video, keep it up!
Should I thank you or the internet for this video? 😅
PS. Even the shaving ad is tailored for my needs, as I was literally complaining about bad razors yesterday.
as mentioned in the video, the movie made me think of bo's welcome to the internet lyrics too: "may i interest you in everything, all of the time . . . apathy's a tragedy and boredom is a crime" we forget to take in the simple things in life and have misconstrued them as failings, and we are eternally unhappy because of it. In the case of Evelyn, cherising her days doing mundane tasks like laundry and taxes with her googly-eyed loving husband has proved to be infinitely fulfilling if she just allowed herself to see that it is.
Thank you very much for this analysis. As a movie lover for many years I was worrying a lot about my dissatisfaction and confusion about movies like "Don't look up" or "Nope" and of course "Everything, everywhere all at once". I didn't understand the mix of film genres, the lack of a specific intention, the bizarre or grotesque details alongside beauty or tenderness. But you It has given me important aspects and criteria that I had not considered. Thank you very much for this path that you have offered me.
Pretending we know what we're doing, but really, we're just going around in circles.
This is exactly what I thought when I left the film, and as soon as you started the video I thought of Bo Burnham and "Welcome to the Internet". I don't feel particularly hopeful about any of it at the moment but I really aspire to.
This movie was brilliant. I tried getting my friend to watch it. But he was drunk about 10 minutes in and just talked through the whole thing, then kept not knowing wtf was going on.
Excellent stuff, as always. To be a human is to be finite, to be in flesh, and to be particular; the “everything, everywhere, all at once” effect of living with an omnipresent internet is ultimately dehumanizing. How shall we then live? I’m not sure this film gives anything close to a satisfying answer (to resign oneself to meaninglessness is just as dehumanizing as attempting to take in “everything, everywhere, all at once”), but it’s certainly asking the right questions.
I think it's unsatisfying in the sense that most "existentialist" answers to these questions are a bit inherently unsatisfying.
What I personally got out of this movie is that the answer to everything is connection. Connection with things and events but most of all other people, finding comfort in their company and their presence. One can often endure the worst of it as long as they've got a hand to hold. To be alone is devastating.
This is, of course, not easy. If it was, we'd all be much better off. It takes an incredible amount of work and a lot of reducing one's scope. But Joy was searching for Evelyn through all of this noise, to find someone else to share her pain, or else someone who she would walk into the bagel with so that she wasn't alone. Waymond begged Evelyn to be kind, to connect with her opponents on some level so that nobody had to or wanted to fight. Evelyn said to Joy, "despite it all, I still want to be here with you." She hugged Deidre and told her she's not unlovable and hugged her and shared a hit off of her vape. Waymond gives her cookies. Rocks falling and worlds colliding was on equal measure with a hug in a parking lot. Over and over, connection is the answer to the conflicts in this movie.
This movie is the biggest "I love you" I've ever seen in my life. It's practically jumping up and down and screaming it.
When everything matters, nothing matters, so what you do is you pick what matters, and the only way through is to say that everything does. Everything, as in focusing on the importance of things that are small. Sharing oranges with your friends. Baking them bread. Putting googly eyes on the laundry bag, because it's silly, and it's fun, and it makes people smile. Being thrilled to find the TV remote. Singing karaoke. Making your wife guess what song you're tapping into the desk bell.
There's a poem called "The Orange" by Wendy Cope. Short, but my comment's already long enough. Worth looking at, maybe?
@@laurelcrown9293 yeah, this is it. The video, while being very good, missed the point of the movie which is, as you say, that connection is what is important. Their own finitude and the randomness of their existence disappear when they consider that the moments they have with each other matter, and I would argue matter inherently at least to the characters within the film. Besides we don’t know what the next thing we find will be, even if will most likely only make us feel smaller and less significant, but it offers hope. The closing of the movie is basically be kind to each other and appreciate your moments together and if you need hope, that’s always there too.
I think the answer is quite clear: to endow meaning to the little bit of sense you make of your finite experience of the infinite, and to live it as deeply as you can - rather than forever searching for meaning or the end of meaning, while the present slips away.
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For u philosophers.
The veil lifting is inevitable,
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Thomas: I so appreciate your sharp and well constructed commentary. Keep going
It's been a while since I watched this film, but your video found me at the right moment. I was going to comment how I recently finished reading Marshall McLuhan's The Medium is a Massage, only to hear you quote him at the end of the video. Absolute chills. It was such a surreal experience, some kind of play on rhetoric by the universe watching your video. Subscribed!