The reason that Evelyn pushed Joy so much is easy: high expectations for children in Asian culture. You push your kids to not only get a 4.0 but also be on several teams and clubs. Go to college early. Become a doctor. All of that. This was the multiverse research version of "My child is exceptional and can take this when other kids can't. We need to research other universes and my child is the only one good enough to handle it."
^^^ plus, the immigrant experience of "i want my kid to succeed and go farther than i did" which also contributes to her pushing joy so much. especially in evelyns case where she views her position in life as wasted potential, she doesnt want joy to end up in what she considers a dead end
I remember when I saw this in theatres weeks after its release, an older lady with whom I assume to be her daughters (they were noticeably younger) sat next to me and my gf and all three of em were like "Can't wait for how dumb this movie's gonna be" and saying other stuff like that. 2 hours later and I've never seen women hold onto each other so tightly covered in tears in my life 😄
Yep. I expected this to be a fun little multiversal romp when I saw it. Came out sobbing. It was at home, and my mom was with me; as soon as they said "multiverse", she checked out and went to get food and didn't come back until the end, because she doesn't let herself enjoy multiverse or superhero movies (she thinks they're "too confusing" or "too childish", respectively, from the jump, so she never even bothers to try and pay attention to them). So she got back during the final Evelyn/Joy climax scene and was like, "...what happened? I have no idea what's going on, but that looks good." And I was sitting there crying like, "THAT'S BECAUSE YOU MISSED 2/3 OF THE MOVIE!" 😅
If the worst possible version of you is able to have a family where love is still present, and your biggest worries are common/mundane, then your collective existence must be living pretty good lives.
No love would've been present between them if she didn't experience all this shit Waymond was about to divorce her and her daughter was su****dal, not to mention her business was about to be closed This version of her would've had no family or money
I know this is 3 months late but I do keep thinking about how the actual worst Evelyn is going: the one still in the universe where she and her husband are terrorists in an IRS building? Probably the one where she punches Deirdre. Maybe the one where she shatters the windows of her business and signs divorce papers. The one with love is another branch which is certainly no longer the worst, but I bet those other Evelyn's are... having a rough time, haha. Maybe the real worst Evelyn is the one where she gets the divorce and Joy drives off and/or kills herself, her business is lost because of poor taxes, and now she has to look after her dad alone? Maybe that one.
This was truly the movie of a generation. People my age are very nihilistic, very existential, very passionate, very worried about whether we're truly loved or if the selves we hide could be loved. This film told us that we are, and that life can matter. Phenomenal movie
This film set their original budget at 25 million dollars, they ended up only spending $14.3 million. You know it is a class A team when they return with the remainder of the budget and say, we didn’t need all of this money. The entire film was edited on Adobe Premiere Pro by a team of 5 amateur editors. The way that they made everything look as real as they did was by making as much of it as real as they could. When Evelyn is jumping between universes- those shots were actually shot in a chair. Then sped up. The Fanny pack fight, very real. He was a stunt director for a couple years, and was excited to learn. Even towards the end where Evelyn has her pinky strength and hits the guy into the air- he was actually lifted by a harness and then dropped down for her to finish the move. Even the sitting on the crack of the couch was real and sped up. We have become dependent on “special effects”. I have said it from the beginning and I will say it forever. Practical effects shoot better on film, they get more genuine reactions from actors, and they are much cheaper.
I thought the over reliance on specia effects was cause it was cheaper and or easier. What do you mean it’s more expensive, harder and is worse to look at?
@@hanaomer4419 The over reliance on special effects is not cheaper, and it's only easier on the actors and higher ups since they don't have to do nearly as much work (making props, choreographing, etc.). Any other mainstream movie company nowadays can get away with this because they usually have high enough budgets to just dump on the FX team to add everything in post, and often times it just looks much worse than if they were to just create the effects practically on set. A lot of recent MCU films are guilty of this.
@@ma.2089 First of all companies have been claiming for YEARS that VFX are cheaper than practical effects- I ask for one film’s receipts that can prove that point. - Nobody will ever respond. Why? Because the truth is, it costs hundreds of millions of dollars to VFX, well, in a film today. Guess what doesn’t cost hundreds of millions of dollars, making practical sets. I will leave you with Lord of the Rings as my final example. Amazing films, and yes they did use VFX. Gollum, the Balrog, the Watcher in the Water, and Shelob were all generated by VFX. The problem is, you can tell. People don’t realize that the pieces of the world that appear very real- were actually built in miniature and scenes were shot in deceptive manors. They built everything from Rivendell, Isengard, Minas Tirith, Lothlórien, Helms Deep, and The Argonath Statues. These places felt real because- well, the miniatures were very real. The price of making something is always less, and if an area looks too dark, you don’t need 17 hours to design a program to lighten it from the correct angle, you just lighten it. Practicality is better. In appearance. Now look at the pricing. The budget for the 3 films was 281 million. 150 million went to VFX. Anyone know what went to practical?…..11 million. It’s not even a race. So, I genuinely don’t care that VFX artists don’t think they are being paid enough. They are being paid HUNDREDS of millions of dollars to produce work that has never once impressed me. It shouldn’t even be a career.
@@MarleyGompel On paper, there's zero chance of this making any sense at all. I'm glad A23 took a risk on them, because holy shit the Daniels created a masterclass in execution of absurdist ideas.
The googly eye is the oppositive of the everything bagel. One is a white circle with a black center while the other is a black circle with a white center While the bagel was built to end Jobu's (and the universe's) life, the fake eye is commonly used to give life to inanimate objects That's why each party uses it as a symbol. Evelyn starts wearing it on her forehead, while Jobu's allies often draw it on theirs
Never forget that Jamie Lee Curtis won Best Supporting Actress for her character with ten minutes of screentime, instead of the incredible performance by Stephanie Hsu, the actual, literal supporting actress of this film.
@@marirezende8478 i know.... it's a category fraud cause 2 supporting nominations is more plausible than 2 lead nominations.... but as op said, Stephanie wasn't the ACTUAL LITERAL supporting actress
The moment she realized Waymond was the key to her happiness, wheeewww, had me in tears. The whole movie she blames him and expects the worse out of him, she sees her life without him and immediately says it would’ve been better, just to realize he’s all she needs.
One of the few extremely hyped movies that deserves _all_ the praise it got. I wouldn't let contrarians I know bash it for being popular before watching it, and when they did they loved it.
The burner universe bit was when I knew this movie was going to be absolute genius. When he said "you can go left to your audit interview or right to the closset, go to the meeting" he was basically setting up a choice where there wasnt one before, causing a new split in the timeline
I watched this movie, with no idea what it was about, in my bedroom alone. I’m a young queer adult, and at the time I had been having a lot of struggles with my mother. With no exaggeration I spent almost the entire third act of this movie sobbing harder than I have at any movie in my entire teenage and adult life. It’s in my top three movies of all time. It’s just… utterly impossible to describe in a way that isn’t insane and yet is one of the most gut wrenching and heartfelt movies I’ve ever seen.
I can't help but be happy for Ke Huy Quan. Guy starred in two classic movies as a kid, couldn't find satisfying acting work, had to drop his health insurance shortly after filming this movie because he couldn't afford it, and now is enjoying an amazing renaissance largely because he absolutely killed it in this movie. I mean, everyone brought their A game, but everyone loves Waymond.
I can’t think of a more appropriate match up of Movie and Reactors- the chaos, the irreverent comedy, the sincerity and heart 💜 This is going to be incredible 🎉
BTW, alpha gong gong was not faking needing a wheelchair, he is just an ambulatory wheelchair user like many people. (People who can walk but have trouble due to disability and/or age and therefore it is easier for them to get around normally with a wheelchair)
I don't remember where I read this, but it was said that all of Jobu Tupaki's makeup was done to intentionally make her look sad and anguished, like she was always crying. Hence the pearls and glitter for tears on her face and the literal tear during the end scene.
I also took three watches to understand the yin and yang concept that was displayed through Joy and Evelyn. The bagel -- the black ring with the white center that represents hopelessness with a spark of life, and the googley eyes -- a white ring with a black center that represents a hopeful and optimistic outlook with a bit of a stain that prevents it from becoming whole. They complete each other.
I can't say enough about how wonderful everything about this movie is! Such a good reminder that the grass isn't always greener. Being where you are can be wonderful, if you pay attention. And I love Jamie Lee Curtis, but Stephanie Hsu (Joy) was robbed of that Oscar. She's a revelation in this role.
Stephanie was more than a revelation and I can easily explain the problem, her role TRULY was not a supporting role- it was a lead role. There were groups of people who were campaigning to get her nominated for supporting actress and when I say she just made it, she just made it. What they didn’t realize was that had they campaigned for her to get lead actress she would have made that category, she was only a few votes short. When an actress’ work is split between what people believe to be lead and supporting- they don’t win. This young woman deserves the world, and she was extremely graceful throughout the entire awards season. She won with dignity and celebrated her co-stars with grace.
@@LoungingPotatoThe Oscars keep using the normal trophy like a lifetime achievement award, because the industry is weird like that. It's a shame that it works that way, but it does. I just hope that Stephanie is recognised for her work sooner than Jamie was.
Same, after hearing others talk about it I watched it a few months later and was like FUCK! Why didn't I go see this! I even had tickets queued up at one point for it and was like "Ehh don't feel like going out" lol. The next year I watched RRR and that was another I was mad I didn't go see in theaters. They became my 1 and 2 favorite movies of that year and that year had some good ass movies if I remember.
@@dayanna901 I watched it at 🏴☠home🏴☠ as well, but by then it was no longer in theaters around me. I wish I'd seen it in theaters, because I wonder what the audience's reaction would have been... and if everyone else would have been crying like me 😅
I love this movie more than words. They made it during COVID, the visual effects department was 9 people (including the directors) and the budget was $20 million. We should all be lucky enough to have a Waymond.
I now work for an animation studio (I didn't when I first saw this film), and just the other day, the team was talking about Blender and wondering whether anyone could make a decent movie using Blender instead of, say, Maya or Unreal (the tools we use). I was like, "...the VFX for Everything, Everywhere, All At Once were made in Blender, so... yes?"
I remember when I watched it with my mom for the first time, we got headaches after leaving the theater from the flashing lights and crying so much, it was completely worth it- it was an incredible experience!
Saw this the opening weekend and I can indeed confirm that there was a lot of mumbling and shifting in seats in confusion when that first credit rolled up lol
The movie star universe is a tribute to Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar-wai. Specifically his film In The Mood For Love. Ke Huy Quan, the actor who plays Waymond actually worked for him a bit after graduating from film school.
I'm glad I caught someone wiping their eyes. This movie gets me every time. It's just so good/chaotic/funny/wholesome. Like they put all the awesome sauces in a blender and it somehow created a masterpiece. I mean, think about it. Just try writing a brief explanation of this movie on paper. It shouldn't have been one of the best movies released that decade? If not top 50. And the budget/team was basically barebones. I think it was like 5 people on VFX team. Like, even just the fannypack scene. "Ok... remember the kid that played Shortround in Indiana Jones? Imagine him in glasses and a fannypack at an IRS place. Security comes to confront the family and Waymond, the kid from Indiana Jones, (yes... Waymond, not Raymond) proceeds to eat some chapstick and push a button on a Bluetooth ear piece to learn Fannypack Kung-Fu Weaponry. He then fights the guards off ending with a stomp on the strap because the clip is in the last guard's nose and gets scorpioned on the ground face first." I'd easily put this in the top 10. Everything was on point. Casting, costume, makeup, cinematography, a sprinkle of meta with a side of just the right amount of self-awareness, stunts, little details, story, googly eyes, and is yet so simple and grounded in a mostly real story about intergenerational trauma and familial and interpersonal relationships.
This movie is so divisive. 9 out of 10 people are sobbing by the end (me ✋), and then the 1 in 10 is just like, "that was dumb, I don't get it". Which I guess is good for them, because it means they've never experienced soul-crushing depression before to truly relate to the characters, so all they saw was butt plugs and hot dog fingers.
The ice in my gut when I realized that this movie that I was enjoying so much was gonna try to resolve Joy's suicidal thoughts, something I've personally had to work through, just filled me with dread. And then they didn't fuck it up. I was bawling. @@IceMetalPunk
the subtitles did kinda show it, but it is easy to miss (especially not knowing either language) but a fun background fact: Waymond speaks only Mandarin and English, and that (as well as english) is what Evelyn and Joy speak to him, but GongGong (Evelyn's dad) speaks only Cantonese, and does not seem to understand Mandarin perfectly (Evelyn only speaks Canto to him). This is kinda an extra background on some of the strained relationship and communication issues between them, and also why Joy had such hard time speaking to him (her Canto is worse than her Mandarin) Just a really fun background detail
I can’t with this movie!! Keep playing with my emotions like a fiddle stick. It’s not even an emotional rollercoaster anymore it’s an emotional bungee jumping.
The movie was about overcoming generational trauma and the attitudes we put up with or excused just to placate our families. Especially the generational trauma of children of immigrant parents. I related so much with Joy’s character is it was all I ever wanted. To be able to just be myself in a world where my parents and grandparents and family were all burdened with traditions of our culture, unwilling to grow and just stagnating indefinitely.
With so many movies in this decade doing multiverse stuff, it was this movie that left it in the dust. Ke Huy Quan literally left acting for decades, learned about the works of filming and stunt work, then came back with a most deserved oscar performance. And it was well overdue that Michelle Yeoh got her flowers; between being a Bond Girl, a martial arts master and an action star, she was the first Asian to win an Oscar for Best Actress. As much as Jamie Lee Curtis was great though, Stephanie Hsu (Joy) was robbed of the Supporting Actress Oscar from her fellow costar.
I agree 100% with everything you said. Jamie Lee Curtis was great, but Stephanie should have won that. I suspect Jamie mostly won because of name recognition, which sucks. Stephanie absolutely killed the role so hard it resurrected with hot dog fingers and built a bagel.
@@IceMetalPunkname recognition and legacy, as both her parents were past actors Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh, and both Oscar nominees themselves Edit: I do love Curtis’s performance but either Stephanie Hsu here or Angela Bassett in Wakanda Forever should have got it
When I first saw this film I was disoriented in a really good way. Despite the frantic nature, it made sense. And thinking about it I realized (in my opinion) that this was one of the most brilliantly edited films I had even seen. And I stick to this today. I immediately knew this was an Oscar contender in that category and didn't know if it would clean up at the awards (which, thankfully, it did), but I vehemently thought it was a masterpiece of editing. Because the film would not have made sense otherwise. And to think it was made on a minuscule budget (1/10th the typical cost of a Marvel movie) with literally 5 guys on a laptop doing all the visual effects during the pandemic is a testament to real talent and creativity.
saw it in theaters with my dad and im so happy we didnt wait for it to come on streaming. just the experience of it on a big screen, feeling every loud sound and walking out crying was amazing
This is my second favorite movie of all time. Writer Daniel Kwan said they set out to write a movie about chaos and decided to make the main character have undiagnosed ADHD, which, for a woman who wasn't diagnosed until her 40s, hit SO HARD. So hard. So many dreams unrealized, so many times you're told you're just not trying, so many "other things" taking your interest from what you're trying to do. Beyond that, the themes are great. Intergenerational trauma, fighting with love, the nihilism bagel and depression and fighting it by holding onto those "few small specks of time" just. GAH. It should have won ALL the awards (ESPECIALLY COSTUMING! HOW DID IT NOT WIN THAT? THE ELVIS + PIG SHOULD HAVE WON BY ITSELF!) Anyway, this is my favorite movie to watch people react to because it's such an amazing rollercoaster mindfuck. First you're just trying to follow things; you feel the tension, you don't know where things are going to go. Then it's BATSHIT CRAZY. AND HILARIOUS. AND WEIRD. And then things start to tie together and you're still laughing (because they did a GREAT job of inserting levity where needed) but the emotional lessons start hitting you like a ton of bricks. It's wonderful. It's funny. It's thought-provoking. It's a profound ache. It's everything, everywhere, all at once.
My favorite live action movie! And seeing you all cry... yeah. That's what this film does. And it's amazing. I'm glad you abridged Waymond's "be kind" speech or I'd be sobbing yet again from it (but instead I'm just slightly crying 😅). The beginning of the movie was supposed to feel like the overwhelming pressure of anxiety or ADD, and as someone with anxiety: it definitely succeeds at that, at least the parts that aren't outright fear. And as someone with depression (yay, comorbidity 😑), Joy's journey is... heartbreaking. Somehow, there are people who actually don't get that it's about suicide. Jobu literally says, "I created the bagel to destroy myself" and "I wanted to see if I could really die"... and people still argue "it's not about suicide". Of fucking course it is. It's about depression and the numbness that comes with it; the feeling of nihilism when anything that should matter to you no longer does, and life speeds past you to leave you behind, so you figure "fuck it, I'm a failure, might as well disappear into the singularity". But it's also about fighting that. It's about deciding that if nothing matters, then *you get to choose* what matters. And it's about urging us all to be kind, have empathy, and support each other, especially when the other person thinks nothing matters, because that's when they need us most. ...and now I've made myself cry. WTF even is this movie?
I remember when my partner and I went to see this in theaters, we didn't really know what it was about, just that it was good. We weren't prepared for what we experienced and I love this movie even more because of it. (probably helps that we didn't see any of the trailers for it)
The best generational trauma/neurodivergent simulator out there ATM. Engineered a lil family intervention using this a few months ago. I see the actions they all "randomly" take as a representation of stimming, as they can sometimes not be understood by outsiders, but to the person doing the behaviour, it's their way of accessing a part of themselves. Evelyn getting distracted constantly and not being able to follow through on dreams/tasks screams executive dysfunction/ADHD and the bagel seems to represent depression. The underlying story of the mother/parents pushing their child so far that they "broke" them is common in most immigrant families, but especially prevalent in east Asian/Asian culture. Glad you also enjoyed the comedy and fight scenes, the fight choreography being done by TH-camrs/stunt men "martial club" who also did the fight choreography and stared in "Shang chi". Brian and Andy Le are making it, and as a subscriber I'm happy to see it.
This film is so real. Evelyn being (meta)physically YANKED between universes is literally how it feels to be interrupted during ADHD hyper-focus. And doing something moderately uncomfortable like putting your shoes on the wrong feet or even completely impossible/unhinged like breaking your own arm is how it can feel struggling with executive dysfunction. Even with my time blindness, doing different tasks can honestly feel like I'm "verse jumping" because nothing exists outside of the Now, so when I'm stuck doing laundry/taxes my brain perceives it as the neverending laundry/taxes groundhog day from hell.
@@revangerang Yup. I feel this. Or, you finally get started on that thing you either really want or need to do, and outside influences want to pull you away, and don't care/realise how much time/energy it took to get started in the first place 😅
Fun fact! Gong Gong means "maternal grandfather" in Mandarin so he's definitely her dad (which becomes obvious later, of course). The word for paternal grandfather is Ye Ye.
One of the emotional revelations I had during this movie was Joy wanted to kill herself indefinitely. But, she was so scared to do it that she tracked down her mom to come with her. I really think she tracked Evelyn down for comfort, and hopefully, to have her own mother show her killing herself isn't the only way forward. Joy wanted comfort in her last moments, and instead, Evelyn dragged her back and showed her life is worth living and to only focus on her life around her. All the big stuff is scary, but the point of life is your family and happiness. It hits me so badly every time I watch this movie. She just wanted comfort, so she tracked her true mother down in the whole MULTIVERSE!
I love the end credits music here. It's so powerful feeling and the message fits the movie perfectly, yet can be listened to separately. Also Mitski is always a W
This movie taught me that when you see the pet pig, things are going to get crazy. I usually don't like over hyped movies. So I avoided this for about a year. Then I finally watched it. It blew me away. Laughing, crying, and cringing all at once. There has never been a movie like this and probably never will be again. It has competition, but this may be one of my favorite movies of all times. And I do NOT say that lightly.
I went to see this movie on a whim with my girlfriend at the time, not knowing anything about it beforehand. I've never left a theater feeling more like my life had changed from a movie. It was such an experience that I'll cherish forever.
I'm still of the opinion that Stephanie Hsu got robbed of multiple awards, including the Oscar. She's excellent in the movie and has so many electric and memorable scenes.
You definitely have to watch Swiss Army Man! It's the first movie by these directors, the Daniels. It's got the same vibes of being ridiculous while still having a huge emotional core philosophy to it.
This is one of those movies that if you watched becomes a life changing moment. Expecting almost nothing except maybe silliness and coming out of it experiencing an emotional catharsis and a different perspective of life. It’s not just a technically superb piece of art, it’s the core of the human experience packaged in film.
Best film I've ever seen. I came home and sobbed while hugging my mother because I felt so seen. She watched it a couple months later when it was on television and came and hugged me while crying afterwards as well. Still cried watching this reaction.
This movie is WILD, it's so dumb, so funny, but so emotional and heartbreaking, and so.. interesting, it fuses the 3 things PERFECTLY It also has on the top cinematografy
I can't think of anything worse than being Jobu Tobaki. You'd be drowning in a mess of all the good and bad conceivable lives. Imagine the worst thing that's ever been done to you; something twice as bad is being done to another you, and ANOTHER you just inflicted it upon someone else. And apparently, that includes a few universes where other sci-fi shit is possible. If talking raccoons who puppeteer humans and hotdog-fingers can be a thing, all sorts of horrible physics-defying nonsense is happening out there, and Jobu is putting up with ALL OF IT, and can't say "no" to the experience. It's like that brainwashing scene from Clockwork Orange; your eyes are permanently held open before all the horror.
Raccacoonie is voiced and sung by Randy Newman, who also brought us most of the songs in the TOY STORY series, I LOVE L.A. and others. It think it's the greatest non-Pixar-Pixar joke in cinema.
Randy Newman's son worked as a PA on the film. He showed his family a rough cut and they loved it. That's why Randy Newman agreed to voice the Racacoonie.
I saw this film opening weekend in April 2022. When I left the theater, I said this film will get nominated and win awards during awards season, and I wouldn't be surprised if it wins an Oscar for Best Picture. I love it when my predictions comes true.
I still wonder if he wrote that into the script to fulfill one of his personal fantasies. Like, "how do I get Michelle Yeoh to spank me? ...wait, I'm writing the script, she can do whatever I want!" 😂
I saw this with my boyfriend in theatres, and I think it hit both of us kind of hard in different ways. We didn’t know what to expect but it honestly surpassed all expectations-
Evelyn, at the end, can choose to live in any universe but chooses to stay in the one that’s just taxes and laundry - because nothing matters except for what matters to you 😭 🥺
I still love how this movie incorporates different philosophies. First we have the Alpha mission that is based on objective truths and retaining status quo, Joy representing nihilism when seeing them as only constructs to a meaningless existence, and then Evelyn is a kind of zen absurdism that yes everything doesn't have meaning, but we are still compelled by our compassion and acknowledgment of each other's realities. This movie is amazingly deep while also having a butt plug fight scene
Not a movie but a mini-series, True Detective, is another one that blends philosophy, in this case, into a detective show. (Many people consider True Detective season 1 to be one of the top 3 seasons of TV ever.)
This movie was such a good experience in theaters I remember the audience into it I went to go see it like 10 more times each time bringing a different friend. Audience always had a great time. ❤
The point of the movie is basically nihilism. Joy going into the bagel was like an Universal suicide. Since she sees everything, see everything and felt everything ALL AT ONCE. She realised that nothing matters, whatever she did...or didn't do....across the vast multiverse...nothing will equate to anything. That's why she wanted peace by dying. That's also why Evelyn let her go the firts time. Because THAT specific universe Evelyn...was the WORST Evelyn across the multiverse, every choice she made was a wrong choice...every choice she didn't tske branched out into a successful or better life. That's why she understood why Joy wanted to end it all. Because even she herself doesn't enjoy her life. But with flashbacks of her husband and her daughter....she realised that even though everything went wrong and they weren't happy. NOTHING matters. As in, even though they may have nothing..even though they may be the worst version of themselves...it still matters. And she convinced Joy that...there may be some universe out there where they were less pieces of shyt...a universe where everything is right and they were happy. She will still chise THAT universe, the one where all is wrong...the one where she was the worst version of herself because even THAT universe matters because NOTHING matters. She will still choose that universe and want to be with her daughter... and will ALWAYS want to be with her. And that was all Joy ever wanted to hear....because she wanted someone to tell her that life's worth living. Hence...why she went looking for Evelyn in every universe. Evelyn convinced her that Nothing...was still worth living
"I didn't see a ring on that hotdog." 🤣 This movie is f*cking *brilliant!* I feel like the writers, Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, have been reading their Seth Material. 💗
There have been an increasing number of stories in the zeitgeist lately that have played in this space. That being the qualities of Nihilism vs Existentialism. It's easy to say that nothing matters, and the Camus reference was spot on. Why not choose suicide? The answer that Existentialism gives is Nihilism offers no chance for change or growth. It's a funnel to an ultimate end, and in endings we forgo the possibility of possibilities. Existentialism, like Nihilism, doesn't believe in there being inherent meaning to the universe. Unlike Nihilism, however, Existentialism chooses to define its own meaning, and if it doesn't like what the meaning is today, then it accepts that change may yet exist tomorrow. By not choosing suicide, it keeps the door of possibilities open. I love this film so much.
And the Bagel is symbolic of Nihilism. And how there are tons of shots where you see the black circle with a white center everywhere. But countering it is the Googly eyes. The white circle with the black center. All the Bagel universe people had either black circles drawn on their foreheads or stapled to their forehead. And the first thing she does with the googly eye? Puts it on her forehead. It both a third eye and the opposite of the Bagel.
I'm so glad I watched this in theaters without context or anything, and I got my best friend to go too as a last minute plan. I loved everything about it! Now is one of my favorites, but I don't think is for everyone.
Can't wait! I love this film. Hope you do more Michelle Yeoh films in the future. Police Story Supercop, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, The Heroic Trio, Magnificent Warriors.
My mom brought me and my dad to see this in theatre saying it was a marvel movie (turns out she meant that it was LIKE a marvel but then again very wrong). So I went in expecting a light fun superhero movie and instead got this masterpiece of a film. I don’t think any movie affected me quite as much as this and the fact that I had zero expectations just made it that much more incredible.
Part of what made this movie so unique is that they revisited and experimented with scenes during editing often- like every two weeks type of often. That is not normal for a movie. I think they started doing it bc of the massive amounts of downtime Covid forced on them, but they kept doing it even after that, and the result are unique to say the least.
First time I watched this movie, I found it randomly scrolling through my movie player. Didn't expect much but I found the poster pretty interesting. Quite the experience, I watched it over 10 times with people that have never seen it. Every rewatch is an experience.
Ke Huay Quan left acting because there weren't any enough asian representations, so until they released two movies that had a lot of asian representation that made history, Crazy Rich Asians and Shang Chi: The Legend of the Ten Rings so it made Ke Huay Quan to come back to acting.
I wished my mom talked to me like how Evelyn spoke to her daughter afterwards. My mom is super strict. And everyone needs a Waymond in their life. Also respect to James Hong. He is also voice of Kungfu Panda Po's Goose Dad Ping. Also love Jamie Lee Curtis too
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I think the missing E word might be you conflating Everything Everywhere All At Once and the concept album Everywhere at the End of Time.
I'm late to the video (and channel), but if you want another live-action anime, Lucy with ScarJo and Morgan Freeman is 100% a live action anime.
I would love to see you guys reawatch this for a second time
That laundry and taxes line is the most romantic line I’ve ever seen in a movie, I tear up every fucking time man.
fking same
Ig it's just me who didn't. I've heard something like that a million times.
@@KuchisabishiiYo alright wrap it up fun police is here
I would put it with the "I have crossed oceans of time to find you." from Dracula. They are the same level.
The reason that Evelyn pushed Joy so much is easy: high expectations for children in Asian culture. You push your kids to not only get a 4.0 but also be on several teams and clubs. Go to college early. Become a doctor. All of that. This was the multiverse research version of "My child is exceptional and can take this when other kids can't. We need to research other universes and my child is the only one good enough to handle it."
^^^ plus, the immigrant experience of "i want my kid to succeed and go farther than i did" which also contributes to her pushing joy so much. especially in evelyns case where she views her position in life as wasted potential, she doesnt want joy to end up in what she considers a dead end
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The other part is that if Joy is the best jumper in the Alphaverse, that would make it Joy's worst life
It's also just because Evelyn felt like she could've done better and pushed all her dreams into her.
I remember when I saw this in theatres weeks after its release, an older lady with whom I assume to be her daughters (they were noticeably younger) sat next to me and my gf and all three of em were like "Can't wait for how dumb this movie's gonna be" and saying other stuff like that. 2 hours later and I've never seen women hold onto each other so tightly covered in tears in my life 😄
Sounds like they not prepared for the Mother-Daughter drama that was to come!
Yeah this movie will do that to ya.
Oh my. Oh how they changed their minds
Yep. I expected this to be a fun little multiversal romp when I saw it. Came out sobbing. It was at home, and my mom was with me; as soon as they said "multiverse", she checked out and went to get food and didn't come back until the end, because she doesn't let herself enjoy multiverse or superhero movies (she thinks they're "too confusing" or "too childish", respectively, from the jump, so she never even bothers to try and pay attention to them). So she got back during the final Evelyn/Joy climax scene and was like, "...what happened? I have no idea what's going on, but that looks good." And I was sitting there crying like, "THAT'S BECAUSE YOU MISSED 2/3 OF THE MOVIE!" 😅
@@IceMetalPunkmy mom was similarly skeptical but afterwards she hugged my sister for a good five minutes
If the worst possible version of you is able to have a family where love is still present, and your biggest worries are common/mundane, then your collective existence must be living pretty good lives.
I took it more to be the least adventurous version of herself
No love would've been present between them if she didn't experience all this shit
Waymond was about to divorce her and her daughter was su****dal, not to mention her business was about to be closed
This version of her would've had no family or money
I know this is 3 months late but I do keep thinking about how the actual worst Evelyn is going: the one still in the universe where she and her husband are terrorists in an IRS building? Probably the one where she punches Deirdre. Maybe the one where she shatters the windows of her business and signs divorce papers.
The one with love is another branch which is certainly no longer the worst, but I bet those other Evelyn's are... having a rough time, haha.
Maybe the real worst Evelyn is the one where she gets the divorce and Joy drives off and/or kills herself, her business is lost because of poor taxes, and now she has to look after her dad alone? Maybe that one.
This was truly the movie of a generation. People my age are very nihilistic, very existential, very passionate, very worried about whether we're truly loved or if the selves we hide could be loved. This film told us that we are, and that life can matter. Phenomenal movie
This film set their original budget at 25 million dollars, they ended up only spending $14.3 million. You know it is a class A team when they return with the remainder of the budget and say, we didn’t need all of this money. The entire film was edited on Adobe Premiere Pro by a team of 5 amateur editors. The way that they made everything look as real as they did was by making as much of it as real as they could. When Evelyn is jumping between universes- those shots were actually shot in a chair. Then sped up. The Fanny pack fight, very real. He was a stunt director for a couple years, and was excited to learn. Even towards the end where Evelyn has her pinky strength and hits the guy into the air- he was actually lifted by a harness and then dropped down for her to finish the move. Even the sitting on the crack of the couch was real and sped up.
We have become dependent on “special effects”. I have said it from the beginning and I will say it forever. Practical effects shoot better on film, they get more genuine reactions from actors, and they are much cheaper.
I thought the over reliance on specia effects was cause it was cheaper and or easier. What do you mean it’s more expensive, harder and is worse to look at?
@@hanaomer4419 The over reliance on special effects is not cheaper, and it's only easier on the actors and higher ups since they don't have to do nearly as much work (making props, choreographing, etc.). Any other mainstream movie company nowadays can get away with this because they usually have high enough budgets to just dump on the FX team to add everything in post, and often times it just looks much worse than if they were to just create the effects practically on set. A lot of recent MCU films are guilty of this.
Pretty sure they used adobe after effects too. Went to SIGGRAPH and they said the egg was, for example, just a 2D asset.
@@hanaomer4419 it’s cheaper cus the pay VFX artists barely anything. And with the amount they demand, the quality isn’t as good.
@@ma.2089 First of all companies have been claiming for YEARS that VFX are cheaper than practical effects- I ask for one film’s receipts that can prove that point. - Nobody will ever respond. Why? Because the truth is, it costs hundreds of millions of dollars to VFX, well, in a film today. Guess what doesn’t cost hundreds of millions of dollars, making practical sets.
I will leave you with Lord of the Rings as my final example. Amazing films, and yes they did use VFX. Gollum, the Balrog, the Watcher in the Water, and Shelob were all generated by VFX. The problem is, you can tell. People don’t realize that the pieces of the world that appear very real- were actually built in miniature and scenes were shot in deceptive manors. They built everything from Rivendell, Isengard, Minas Tirith, Lothlórien, Helms Deep, and The Argonath Statues. These places felt real because- well, the miniatures were very real. The price of making something is always less, and if an area looks too dark, you don’t need 17 hours to design a program to lighten it from the correct angle, you just lighten it. Practicality is better. In appearance. Now look at the pricing. The budget for the 3 films was 281 million. 150 million went to VFX. Anyone know what went to practical?…..11 million. It’s not even a race.
So, I genuinely don’t care that VFX artists don’t think they are being paid enough. They are being paid HUNDREDS of millions of dollars to produce work that has never once impressed me. It shouldn’t even be a career.
This movie had no business being as good and emotional as it was. I always end up balling my eyes out near the end. 💜
I can't believe this movie exists. I can't believe a movie with a butt plug fight won the fucking Oscar.
@@ericmicke4130 It's so chaotic, and it sshouldn't work...but it does, and it's amazing.
@@MarleyGompel 100% agree.
You can make it to the end? During Waymond's "be kind" speech I'm already a sobbing mess 😅
@@MarleyGompel On paper, there's zero chance of this making any sense at all. I'm glad A23 took a risk on them, because holy shit the Daniels created a masterclass in execution of absurdist ideas.
The googly eye is the oppositive of the everything bagel.
One is a white circle with a black center while the other is a black circle with a white center
While the bagel was built to end Jobu's (and the universe's) life, the fake eye is commonly used to give life to inanimate objects
That's why each party uses it as a symbol. Evelyn starts wearing it on her forehead, while Jobu's allies often draw it on theirs
Yin and Yang
"Fake" eye is actually the "Third Eye." It's a symbol of enlightenment.
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its both, a symbol can meaning more than one thing
Never forget that Jamie Lee Curtis won Best Supporting Actress for her character with ten minutes of screentime, instead of the incredible performance by Stephanie Hsu, the actual, literal supporting actress of this film.
Wth 😭
Wait I thought Stephanie Hsu was more than a "supporting actress" she's literally a main character!
Stephanie wasn't the actual supporting actress..... she was a co-lead.....
@@Rash23215 she was nominated for the supporting actress award tho
@@marirezende8478 i know.... it's a category fraud cause 2 supporting nominations is more plausible than 2 lead nominations.... but as op said, Stephanie wasn't the ACTUAL LITERAL supporting actress
The moment she realized Waymond was the key to her happiness, wheeewww, had me in tears. The whole movie she blames him and expects the worse out of him, she sees her life without him and immediately says it would’ve been better, just to realize he’s all she needs.
i love waymond so much😭 hes just 20/10
I love how even in the world that she doesn't pick him, she meets him again and eventually picks him. So beautiful. Love Waymond so much.
One of the few extremely hyped movies that deserves _all_ the praise it got. I wouldn't let contrarians I know bash it for being popular before watching it, and when they did they loved it.
The burner universe bit was when I knew this movie was going to be absolute genius. When he said "you can go left to your audit interview or right to the closset, go to the meeting" he was basically setting up a choice where there wasnt one before, causing a new split in the timeline
I watched this movie, with no idea what it was about, in my bedroom alone. I’m a young queer adult, and at the time I had been having a lot of struggles with my mother. With no exaggeration I spent almost the entire third act of this movie sobbing harder than I have at any movie in my entire teenage and adult life. It’s in my top three movies of all time. It’s just… utterly impossible to describe in a way that isn’t insane and yet is one of the most gut wrenching and heartfelt movies I’ve ever seen.
I can't help but be happy for Ke Huy Quan. Guy starred in two classic movies as a kid, couldn't find satisfying acting work, had to drop his health insurance shortly after filming this movie because he couldn't afford it, and now is enjoying an amazing renaissance largely because he absolutely killed it in this movie. I mean, everyone brought their A game, but everyone loves Waymond.
I can’t think of a more appropriate match up of Movie and Reactors- the chaos, the irreverent comedy, the sincerity and heart 💜
This is going to be incredible 🎉
I hope none of them have seen it yet so all 3 have a fresh reaction.
@@ericmicke4130 same here! But either way it’s going to be so much fun
BTW, alpha gong gong was not faking needing a wheelchair, he is just an ambulatory wheelchair user like many people. (People who can walk but have trouble due to disability and/or age and therefore it is easier for them to get around normally with a wheelchair)
Not even alpha gong of normal gong gong was stood up at the beginning of the movie.
@@David-cg1lh Normal Gong Gong walked up the stairs at the beginning of the movie after he showed up to complain he was hungry
@@Hannah4765 exactly what I was referring to yes.
I've said this before, but this movie is my favorite film of the 2020s (so far). Its wildly imaginative and extremely heartfelt.
Everytime it gets to Waymond’s part and Evelyn looks at him with so much love I start crying and then I don’t stop until the end of the movie
I don't remember where I read this, but it was said that all of Jobu Tupaki's makeup was done to intentionally make her look sad and anguished, like she was always crying. Hence the pearls and glitter for tears on her face and the literal tear during the end scene.
I also took three watches to understand the yin and yang concept that was displayed through Joy and Evelyn. The bagel -- the black ring with the white center that represents hopelessness with a spark of life, and the googley eyes -- a white ring with a black center that represents a hopeful and optimistic outlook with a bit of a stain that prevents it from becoming whole. They complete each other.
I can't say enough about how wonderful everything about this movie is! Such a good reminder that the grass isn't always greener. Being where you are can be wonderful, if you pay attention.
And I love Jamie Lee Curtis, but Stephanie Hsu (Joy) was robbed of that Oscar. She's a revelation in this role.
Stephanie was more than a revelation and I can easily explain the problem, her role TRULY was not a supporting role- it was a lead role.
There were groups of people who were campaigning to get her nominated for supporting actress and when I say she just made it, she just made it. What they didn’t realize was that had they campaigned for her to get lead actress she would have made that category, she was only a few votes short. When an actress’ work is split between what people believe to be lead and supporting- they don’t win.
This young woman deserves the world, and she was extremely graceful throughout the entire awards season. She won with dignity and celebrated her co-stars with grace.
Stephanie definitely deserved an Oscar, but I'd put in the argument that Jamie Lee Curtis was due for one
@@zavodila9279 Due for one, yes--I definitely agree. But I wouldn't say for this role
@@LoungingPotatoThe Oscars keep using the normal trophy like a lifetime achievement award, because the industry is weird like that. It's a shame that it works that way, but it does. I just hope that Stephanie is recognised for her work sooner than Jamie was.
"Now I see why this movie has such acclaim."
He's saying this and he's still on part 1. That's how good this movie is!
I am so upset I didn't watch this in the theatre's. 💜
I actually watched it 🏴☠️home🏴☠️ twice then watched it in the theatre ❤ (and I'm really not a rewatcher, usually!)
THIS!! i just Know this movie would've been insane in theatres
Same, after hearing others talk about it I watched it a few months later and was like FUCK! Why didn't I go see this! I even had tickets queued up at one point for it and was like "Ehh don't feel like going out" lol. The next year I watched RRR and that was another I was mad I didn't go see in theaters. They became my 1 and 2 favorite movies of that year and that year had some good ass movies if I remember.
i watched it in theaters and it was crazy had me just as emotional as me watching this reaction.
@@dayanna901 I watched it at 🏴☠home🏴☠ as well, but by then it was no longer in theaters around me. I wish I'd seen it in theaters, because I wonder what the audience's reaction would have been... and if everyone else would have been crying like me 😅
I love this movie more than words. They made it during COVID, the visual effects department was 9 people (including the directors) and the budget was $20 million. We should all be lucky enough to have a Waymond.
During the multiverse flash with the main character looking at the viewer for a spit second you can see all the people in a chatroom.
I now work for an animation studio (I didn't when I first saw this film), and just the other day, the team was talking about Blender and wondering whether anyone could make a decent movie using Blender instead of, say, Maya or Unreal (the tools we use). I was like, "...the VFX for Everything, Everywhere, All At Once were made in Blender, so... yes?"
I heard there was 7 editors? No matter they did a great job
I remember when I watched it with my mom for the first time, we got headaches after leaving the theater from the flashing lights and crying so much, it was completely worth it- it was an incredible experience!
Saw this the opening weekend and I can indeed confirm that there was a lot of mumbling and shifting in seats in confusion when that first credit rolled up lol
It should have been a giveaway that it says "produced by Evelyn Quan" 😂
This is absolutely my favorite movie in recent years. Love the combination of the poignant with absurd.
Btw the guys with the "trophies" up they're butts are brothers and TH-camrs IIRC. One of them plays Deathdealer in Shang Chi
I've heard they also choreographed most (if not all) the fight scenes as well!
"martial club" Andy and Brian Le. They choreographed the fights for both this and Shang chi
The movie star universe is a tribute to Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar-wai. Specifically his film In The Mood For Love. Ke Huy Quan, the actor who plays Waymond actually worked for him a bit after graduating from film school.
I'm glad I caught someone wiping their eyes. This movie gets me every time. It's just so good/chaotic/funny/wholesome. Like they put all the awesome sauces in a blender and it somehow created a masterpiece.
I mean, think about it. Just try writing a brief explanation of this movie on paper. It shouldn't have been one of the best movies released that decade? If not top 50. And the budget/team was basically barebones. I think it was like 5 people on VFX team.
Like, even just the fannypack scene. "Ok... remember the kid that played Shortround in Indiana Jones? Imagine him in glasses and a fannypack at an IRS place. Security comes to confront the family and Waymond, the kid from Indiana Jones, (yes... Waymond, not Raymond) proceeds to eat some chapstick and push a button on a Bluetooth ear piece to learn Fannypack Kung-Fu Weaponry. He then fights the guards off ending with a stomp on the strap because the clip is in the last guard's nose and gets scorpioned on the ground face first."
I'd easily put this in the top 10. Everything was on point. Casting, costume, makeup, cinematography, a sprinkle of meta with a side of just the right amount of self-awareness, stunts, little details, story, googly eyes, and is yet so simple and grounded in a mostly real story about intergenerational trauma and familial and interpersonal relationships.
This movie is so divisive. 9 out of 10 people are sobbing by the end (me ✋), and then the 1 in 10 is just like, "that was dumb, I don't get it". Which I guess is good for them, because it means they've never experienced soul-crushing depression before to truly relate to the characters, so all they saw was butt plugs and hot dog fingers.
The ice in my gut when I realized that this movie that I was enjoying so much was gonna try to resolve Joy's suicidal thoughts, something I've personally had to work through, just filled me with dread. And then they didn't fuck it up. I was bawling. @@IceMetalPunk
@@IceMetalPunk I mean that's the difference of media literacy imo
the subtitles did kinda show it, but it is easy to miss (especially not knowing either language) but a fun background fact: Waymond speaks only Mandarin and English, and that (as well as english) is what Evelyn and Joy speak to him, but GongGong (Evelyn's dad) speaks only Cantonese, and does not seem to understand Mandarin perfectly (Evelyn only speaks Canto to him).
This is kinda an extra background on some of the strained relationship and communication issues between them, and also why Joy had such hard time speaking to him (her Canto is worse than her Mandarin)
Just a really fun background detail
Joy didn't speak canto at all. She spoke to gong gong in mandarin
@18:32 These are security guards, for the IRS. They're actual Federal Agents, not mall cops.
Right wtf are they talking about.
God, even after all this time it's still making me sob like a baby. Bagel/10, this is the greatest movie I've ever seen
🥯/10 for sure.
I can’t with this movie!! Keep playing with my emotions like a fiddle stick. It’s not even an emotional rollercoaster anymore it’s an emotional bungee jumping.
As someone with ADHD this movie is wildly relatable.
As someone with anxiety and depression: same.
The movie was about overcoming generational trauma and the attitudes we put up with or excused just to placate our families. Especially the generational trauma of children of immigrant parents. I related so much with Joy’s character is it was all I ever wanted. To be able to just be myself in a world where my parents and grandparents and family were all burdened with traditions of our culture, unwilling to grow and just stagnating indefinitely.
With so many movies in this decade doing multiverse stuff, it was this movie that left it in the dust.
Ke Huy Quan literally left acting for decades, learned about the works of filming and stunt work, then came back with a most deserved oscar performance. And it was well overdue that Michelle Yeoh got her flowers; between being a Bond Girl, a martial arts master and an action star, she was the first Asian to win an Oscar for Best Actress. As much as Jamie Lee Curtis was great though, Stephanie Hsu (Joy) was robbed of the Supporting Actress Oscar from her fellow costar.
I agree 100% with everything you said. Jamie Lee Curtis was great, but Stephanie should have won that. I suspect Jamie mostly won because of name recognition, which sucks. Stephanie absolutely killed the role so hard it resurrected with hot dog fingers and built a bagel.
@@IceMetalPunkname recognition and legacy, as both her parents were past actors Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh, and both Oscar nominees themselves
Edit: I do love Curtis’s performance but either Stephanie Hsu here or Angela Bassett in Wakanda Forever should have got it
Ke Huy Quan also stated that he didn't want to leave acting, it was just insanely hard to get a serious acting role as an Asian male actor.
I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS! Can't wait to bawl my eyes out again
When I first saw this film I was disoriented in a really good way. Despite the frantic nature, it made sense. And thinking about it I realized (in my opinion) that this was one of the most brilliantly edited films I had even seen. And I stick to this today. I immediately knew this was an Oscar contender in that category and didn't know if it would clean up at the awards (which, thankfully, it did), but I vehemently thought it was a masterpiece of editing. Because the film would not have made sense otherwise. And to think it was made on a minuscule budget (1/10th the typical cost of a Marvel movie) with literally 5 guys on a laptop doing all the visual effects during the pandemic is a testament to real talent and creativity.
saw it in theaters with my dad and im so happy we didnt wait for it to come on streaming. just the experience of it on a big screen, feeling every loud sound and walking out crying was amazing
This is my second favorite movie of all time. Writer Daniel Kwan said they set out to write a movie about chaos and decided to make the main character have undiagnosed ADHD, which, for a woman who wasn't diagnosed until her 40s, hit SO HARD. So hard. So many dreams unrealized, so many times you're told you're just not trying, so many "other things" taking your interest from what you're trying to do. Beyond that, the themes are great. Intergenerational trauma, fighting with love, the nihilism bagel and depression and fighting it by holding onto those "few small specks of time" just. GAH. It should have won ALL the awards (ESPECIALLY COSTUMING! HOW DID IT NOT WIN THAT? THE ELVIS + PIG SHOULD HAVE WON BY ITSELF!) Anyway, this is my favorite movie to watch people react to because it's such an amazing rollercoaster mindfuck. First you're just trying to follow things; you feel the tension, you don't know where things are going to go. Then it's BATSHIT CRAZY. AND HILARIOUS. AND WEIRD. And then things start to tie together and you're still laughing (because they did a GREAT job of inserting levity where needed) but the emotional lessons start hitting you like a ton of bricks. It's wonderful. It's funny. It's thought-provoking. It's a profound ache. It's everything, everywhere, all at once.
My favorite live action movie! And seeing you all cry... yeah. That's what this film does. And it's amazing. I'm glad you abridged Waymond's "be kind" speech or I'd be sobbing yet again from it (but instead I'm just slightly crying 😅). The beginning of the movie was supposed to feel like the overwhelming pressure of anxiety or ADD, and as someone with anxiety: it definitely succeeds at that, at least the parts that aren't outright fear. And as someone with depression (yay, comorbidity 😑), Joy's journey is... heartbreaking.
Somehow, there are people who actually don't get that it's about suicide. Jobu literally says, "I created the bagel to destroy myself" and "I wanted to see if I could really die"... and people still argue "it's not about suicide". Of fucking course it is. It's about depression and the numbness that comes with it; the feeling of nihilism when anything that should matter to you no longer does, and life speeds past you to leave you behind, so you figure "fuck it, I'm a failure, might as well disappear into the singularity".
But it's also about fighting that. It's about deciding that if nothing matters, then *you get to choose* what matters. And it's about urging us all to be kind, have empathy, and support each other, especially when the other person thinks nothing matters, because that's when they need us most.
...and now I've made myself cry. WTF even is this movie?
I remember when my partner and I went to see this in theaters, we didn't really know what it was about, just that it was good. We weren't prepared for what we experienced and I love this movie even more because of it. (probably helps that we didn't see any of the trailers for it)
The best generational trauma/neurodivergent simulator out there ATM.
Engineered a lil family intervention using this a few months ago.
I see the actions they all "randomly" take as a representation of stimming, as they can sometimes not be understood by outsiders, but to the person doing the behaviour, it's their way of accessing a part of themselves.
Evelyn getting distracted constantly and not being able to follow through on dreams/tasks screams executive dysfunction/ADHD and the bagel seems to represent depression.
The underlying story of the mother/parents pushing their child so far that they "broke" them is common in most immigrant families, but especially prevalent in east Asian/Asian culture.
Glad you also enjoyed the comedy and fight scenes, the fight choreography being done by TH-camrs/stunt men "martial club" who also did the fight choreography and stared in "Shang chi".
Brian and Andy Le are making it, and as a subscriber I'm happy to see it.
This film is so real. Evelyn being (meta)physically YANKED between universes is literally how it feels to be interrupted during ADHD hyper-focus. And doing something moderately uncomfortable like putting your shoes on the wrong feet or even completely impossible/unhinged like breaking your own arm is how it can feel struggling with executive dysfunction. Even with my time blindness, doing different tasks can honestly feel like I'm "verse jumping" because nothing exists outside of the Now, so when I'm stuck doing laundry/taxes my brain perceives it as the neverending laundry/taxes groundhog day from hell.
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Yup. I feel this. Or, you finally get started on that thing you either really want or need to do, and outside influences want to pull you away, and don't care/realise how much time/energy it took to get started in the first place 😅
@@alpachinko9154 Oh god yeah that combination is just the worst 😭
The sound effect they use when she uses her pinky in the fighting scene is the same sound as the home run bat from Super Smash Bros
This movie made me think of everything everywhere all at once, literally changed my life. Talented crew, actors, directors, editors, phenomenal movie
Fun fact! Gong Gong means "maternal grandfather" in Mandarin so he's definitely her dad (which becomes obvious later, of course). The word for paternal grandfather is Ye Ye.
Love that Boom immediately pegged this movie as Albert Camus inspired, "Sorta Stupid" my ass!
Only sorta!
One of the emotional revelations I had during this movie was Joy wanted to kill herself indefinitely. But, she was so scared to do it that she tracked down her mom to come with her. I really think she tracked Evelyn down for comfort, and hopefully, to have her own mother show her killing herself isn't the only way forward. Joy wanted comfort in her last moments, and instead, Evelyn dragged her back and showed her life is worth living and to only focus on her life around her. All the big stuff is scary, but the point of life is your family and happiness. It hits me so badly every time I watch this movie. She just wanted comfort, so she tracked her true mother down in the whole MULTIVERSE!
I love the end credits music here. It's so powerful feeling and the message fits the movie perfectly, yet can be listened to separately. Also Mitski is always a W
This movie taught me that when you see the pet pig, things are going to get crazy.
I usually don't like over hyped movies. So I avoided this for about a year. Then I finally watched it. It blew me away. Laughing, crying, and cringing all at once. There has never been a movie like this and probably never will be again. It has competition, but this may be one of my favorite movies of all times. And I do NOT say that lightly.
I feel really sorry for all of you people who didn't get the chance to experience the ambiance of the rocks' scene in a movie theater
I showed this movie to my parents on Mother's Day; it wasn't intentional, but it turned out to be pretty relevant regardless, lol
I went to see this movie on a whim with my girlfriend at the time, not knowing anything about it beforehand. I've never left a theater feeling more like my life had changed from a movie. It was such an experience that I'll cherish forever.
1:07:58 a judges hammer is the most insane murder weapon and i love it
I'm still of the opinion that Stephanie Hsu got robbed of multiple awards, including the Oscar. She's excellent in the movie and has so many electric and memorable scenes.
Recommendations: Incredibles franchise, The Prince of Egypt and Mission Impossible
You definitely have to watch Swiss Army Man! It's the first movie by these directors, the Daniels. It's got the same vibes of being ridiculous while still having a huge emotional core philosophy to it.
This is one of those movies that if you watched becomes a life changing moment. Expecting almost nothing except maybe silliness and coming out of it experiencing an emotional catharsis and a different perspective of life. It’s not just a technically superb piece of art, it’s the core of the human experience packaged in film.
Best film I've ever seen. I came home and sobbed while hugging my mother because I felt so seen. She watched it a couple months later when it was on television and came and hugged me while crying afterwards as well. Still cried watching this reaction.
God I think I cried more at the end of this than I did when I originally watched it in theaters, such a good damn movie.
Ke Huy Quan is such a great actor man. Soo damm endearing.
This movie is WILD, it's so dumb, so funny, but so emotional and heartbreaking, and so.. interesting, it fuses the 3 things PERFECTLY
It also has on the top cinematografy
I can't think of anything worse than being Jobu Tobaki. You'd be drowning in a mess of all the good and bad conceivable lives. Imagine the worst thing that's ever been done to you; something twice as bad is being done to another you, and ANOTHER you just inflicted it upon someone else. And apparently, that includes a few universes where other sci-fi shit is possible. If talking raccoons who puppeteer humans and hotdog-fingers can be a thing, all sorts of horrible physics-defying nonsense is happening out there, and Jobu is putting up with ALL OF IT, and can't say "no" to the experience. It's like that brainwashing scene from Clockwork Orange; your eyes are permanently held open before all the horror.
Raccacoonie is voiced and sung by Randy Newman, who also brought us most of the songs in the TOY STORY series, I LOVE L.A. and others. It think it's the greatest non-Pixar-Pixar joke in cinema.
Randy Newman's son worked as a PA on the film. He showed his family a rough cut and they loved it. That's why Randy Newman agreed to voice the Racacoonie.
I saw this film opening weekend in April 2022. When I left the theater, I said this film will get nominated and win awards during awards season, and I wouldn't be surprised if it wins an Oscar for Best Picture. I love it when my predictions comes true.
The guys: “ Butt plug? Why do I see a butt plug?”
Me: “ You’ll see why🤣🤣🤣🤣.”
"Because it's Chekov's butt plug, that's why!" Or, as someone else in another comment months ago once said, "it's Chekov's Texas wedding!"
Fun fact: the guy that Evelyn gags, is one of the co-directors.
I still wonder if he wrote that into the script to fulfill one of his personal fantasies. Like, "how do I get Michelle Yeoh to spank me? ...wait, I'm writing the script, she can do whatever I want!" 😂
I saw this with my boyfriend in theatres, and I think it hit both of us kind of hard in different ways. We didn’t know what to expect but it honestly surpassed all expectations-
Evelyn, at the end, can choose to live in any universe but chooses to stay in the one that’s just taxes and laundry - because nothing matters except for what matters to you 😭 🥺
I still love how this movie incorporates different philosophies. First we have the Alpha mission that is based on objective truths and retaining status quo, Joy representing nihilism when seeing them as only constructs to a meaningless existence, and then Evelyn is a kind of zen absurdism that yes everything doesn't have meaning, but we are still compelled by our compassion and acknowledgment of each other's realities. This movie is amazingly deep while also having a butt plug fight scene
Not a movie but a mini-series, True Detective, is another one that blends philosophy, in this case, into a detective show. (Many people consider True Detective season 1 to be one of the top 3 seasons of TV ever.)
Gotta be honest. Did not expect Boom to reference Camus. Nice job, dude.
Yall shoot a gong when you predict the line?! Instant subscribe, thats hilarious
This movie was such a good experience in theaters I remember the audience into it I went to go see it like 10 more times each time bringing a different friend. Audience always had a great time. ❤
Me too! Seven times in the theater
Oh my gosh, I cried so hard during this movie lmao- super cool to see y’all watch it :D
The point of the movie is basically nihilism.
Joy going into the bagel was like an Universal suicide. Since she sees everything, see everything and felt everything ALL AT ONCE. She realised that nothing matters, whatever she did...or didn't do....across the vast multiverse...nothing will equate to anything. That's why she wanted peace by dying.
That's also why Evelyn let her go the firts time. Because THAT specific universe Evelyn...was the WORST Evelyn across the multiverse, every choice she made was a wrong choice...every choice she didn't tske branched out into a successful or better life. That's why she understood why Joy wanted to end it all. Because even she herself doesn't enjoy her life.
But with flashbacks of her husband and her daughter....she realised that even though everything went wrong and they weren't happy. NOTHING matters. As in, even though they may have nothing..even though they may be the worst version of themselves...it still matters.
And she convinced Joy that...there may be some universe out there where they were less pieces of shyt...a universe where everything is right and they were happy. She will still chise THAT universe, the one where all is wrong...the one where she was the worst version of herself because even THAT universe matters because NOTHING matters. She will still choose that universe and want to be with her daughter... and will ALWAYS want to be with her.
And that was all Joy ever wanted to hear....because she wanted someone to tell her that life's worth living. Hence...why she went looking for Evelyn in every universe.
Evelyn convinced her that Nothing...was still worth living
Simply put, it’s some of the best emotional whiplash we’ll get to experience in a film 😂
Thanks for reacting to this movie. It's a masterpiece. Also love the Kinger plush
Chekhov's but plug . . . This movie is one of the best ever! Everyone did such an amazing job. Such one to watch along with you guys.
"I didn't see a ring on that hotdog." 🤣 This movie is f*cking *brilliant!* I feel like the writers, Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, have been reading their Seth Material. 💗
There have been an increasing number of stories in the zeitgeist lately that have played in this space. That being the qualities of Nihilism vs Existentialism.
It's easy to say that nothing matters, and the Camus reference was spot on. Why not choose suicide? The answer that Existentialism gives is Nihilism offers no chance for change or growth. It's a funnel to an ultimate end, and in endings we forgo the possibility of possibilities.
Existentialism, like Nihilism, doesn't believe in there being inherent meaning to the universe. Unlike Nihilism, however, Existentialism chooses to define its own meaning, and if it doesn't like what the meaning is today, then it accepts that change may yet exist tomorrow. By not choosing suicide, it keeps the door of possibilities open.
I love this film so much.
And the Bagel is symbolic of Nihilism. And how there are tons of shots where you see the black circle with a white center everywhere. But countering it is the Googly eyes. The white circle with the black center. All the Bagel universe people had either black circles drawn on their foreheads or stapled to their forehead. And the first thing she does with the googly eye? Puts it on her forehead. It both a third eye and the opposite of the Bagel.
This is my favorite movie of all time!
I'm so glad I watched this in theaters without context or anything, and I got my best friend to go too as a last minute plan. I loved everything about it! Now is one of my favorites, but I don't think is for everyone.
"This is a very real movie" not me now very excited to see the reaction to the universe with hot dog fingers.
YES!! This is my absolute favorite film of all time. Excited to see y'all's reaction!!!
Can't wait! I love this film.
Hope you do more Michelle Yeoh films in the future. Police Story Supercop, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, The Heroic Trio, Magnificent Warriors.
I've seen this movie a few times by now and I was still crying my eyes out with you guys 😂
Also: My native language is bengali and is also gender neutral. I love how simple it makes things lol.
This is my absolute favorite movie! I love it so much.
My mom brought me and my dad to see this in theatre saying it was a marvel movie (turns out she meant that it was LIKE a marvel but then again very wrong). So I went in expecting a light fun superhero movie and instead got this masterpiece of a film. I don’t think any movie affected me quite as much as this and the fact that I had zero expectations just made it that much more incredible.
You can’t imagine how surprised I was to see this video. My favorite reactors watching my favorite movie!🎉🎉🎉
I can't handle the hot dog fingers... I just can't, I just can't
Part of what made this movie so unique is that they revisited and experimented with scenes during editing often- like every two weeks type of often. That is not normal for a movie. I think they started doing it bc of the massive amounts of downtime Covid forced on them, but they kept doing it even after that, and the result are unique to say the least.
Y'all need to watch *The Good Place*. Hilarious, poignant, and with some incredible philosophy underpinning it all.
id say yes but alot would go over their heads n then the long tangents that would arise from chidis talks
@@thedernboy Tangents are just another way for the reactors to be for a little while.
46:30 Raccacooni's tail is sticking out the hat, how did I miss that?
First time I watched this movie, I found it randomly scrolling through my movie player. Didn't expect much but I found the poster pretty interesting. Quite the experience, I watched it over 10 times with people that have never seen it. Every rewatch is an experience.
There's a reason why the laundry and taxes line still see so much use these days.
7:04 There is Eric but the law can't seem to make up their minds if they're ok with it or not
Ke Huay Quan left acting because there weren't any enough asian representations, so until they released two movies that had a lot of asian representation that made history, Crazy Rich Asians and Shang Chi: The Legend of the Ten Rings so it made Ke Huay Quan to come back to acting.
I wished my mom talked to me like how Evelyn spoke to her daughter afterwards. My mom is super strict. And everyone needs a Waymond in their life.
Also respect to James Hong. He is also voice of Kungfu Panda Po's Goose Dad Ping.
Also love Jamie Lee Curtis too