What Makes Everything Everywhere All At Once Profound To Me

Everything Everywhere All At Once is the latest film by the director-writer duo The Daniels in eight years since Swiss Army Man, their only other feature and was distributed by A24 once more. It’s also the best film of the year I have seen so far. I’m supposed to see The Northman next week, and I’m no longer looking forward to it. I want to see Everything Everywhere All At Once again instead. And I likely will. I will.

The amount of euphoria I experienced from this film is genuinely immeasurable and superb. Some say that Shakespeare’s works contain every human emotion, and I believe this film has that because I felt all the emotions while watching. I laughed, and I cried. I felt uncomfortable and spiritual. It’s an overwhelming film, and in the best way possible.

The film is about a middle-aged Chinese-American woman named Evelyn Wang running a laundromat that isn’t doing so well tax-wise. On top of that, her overbearing father, Gong Gong, has come to visit from China. Her daughter Joy tries to make space for her and her partner Becky to be open about their relationship. And unbeknownst to Evelyn, her husband is half-heartedly filing for divorce.

And on the day they are to resolve their taxes, Evelyn meets an alternate version of her husband. “Alpha-Waymond” from the alpha-verse explains that…