Films·
Everything Everywhere All at Once
2022 film by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert.
Metadata
| Director | Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert |
| Year | 2022 |
| Writer | Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert |
| Stars | Michelle Yeoh, Stephanie Hsu, Ke Huy Quan |
The Movie in 3 Sentences
- Summary: Everything Everywhere All at Once follows Evelyn Wang, an overwhelmed laundromat owner being audited by the IRS while her family life is falling apart. She discovers that countless versions of herself exist across the multiverse, and she must draw on their skills to confront a cosmic threat. What begins as a chaotic sci-fi action comedy becomes a deeply emotional story about a mother, a daughter, and the lives they wish they had lived.
- Overall theme: The movie is about regret, family, nihilism, and choosing love in a universe where everything can feel meaningless. It asks what matters when every possible version of life exists somewhere, making any single choice feel small. Its answer is surprisingly tender: meaning comes from paying attention to the people right in front of you.
- Cinematography style: The cinematography is kinetic, maximalist, and constantly shifting, jumping between genres, aspect ratios, lighting styles, and visual textures. One moment feels like a martial arts movie, another like a Wong Kar-wai romance, a sci-fi spectacle, or absurdist comedy. The style mirrors the multiverse itself: messy, overloaded, funny, beautiful, and emotionally sincere underneath the chaos.
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