Everything Everywhere All At Once
May. 14th, 2022 07:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rynlingI should say that Everything Everywhere All At Once is actually really good, and I enjoyed it!
It just might hit a little too close too home for some people. Specifically, regardless of where your parents are from, I think being told that you’re getting fat is a near-universal second-generation immigrant experience, and some people might be more sensitive about this aspect of the movie than others.
The actual universal second-generation immigrant experience is crying and pissing and shitting yourself as you beg your parents to please, for the love of Christ, please throw things away.
( I escaped from the cycle of generational trauma by refusing to argue with my immigrant husband about this. Instead I wait until he leaves the house and throw things away without telling him. This strategy has been marvelously effective, and I highly recommend it. Anyway. )
Everything Everywhere All At Once is narrated from the immigrant mother’s perspective, so you don’t see her daughter’s frustration with the hoarding, but you do see how their apartment is filled with literal piles of useless things that need to be thrown away, and damn if that wasn’t my entire childhood.
Another bit I liked is the scene where Michelle Yeoh’s character smokes weed. I won’t spoil it – and it’s definitely not what you think it’s going to be – but that scene alone was worth the risk of getting Covid at the movie theater. It was very unexpected, and very sweet and sincere, and very much an element of the human condition that I’m relieved we can put in American movies now.
It just might hit a little too close too home for some people. Specifically, regardless of where your parents are from, I think being told that you’re getting fat is a near-universal second-generation immigrant experience, and some people might be more sensitive about this aspect of the movie than others.
The actual universal second-generation immigrant experience is crying and pissing and shitting yourself as you beg your parents to please, for the love of Christ, please throw things away.
( I escaped from the cycle of generational trauma by refusing to argue with my immigrant husband about this. Instead I wait until he leaves the house and throw things away without telling him. This strategy has been marvelously effective, and I highly recommend it. Anyway. )
Everything Everywhere All At Once is narrated from the immigrant mother’s perspective, so you don’t see her daughter’s frustration with the hoarding, but you do see how their apartment is filled with literal piles of useless things that need to be thrown away, and damn if that wasn’t my entire childhood.
Another bit I liked is the scene where Michelle Yeoh’s character smokes weed. I won’t spoil it – and it’s definitely not what you think it’s going to be – but that scene alone was worth the risk of getting Covid at the movie theater. It was very unexpected, and very sweet and sincere, and very much an element of the human condition that I’m relieved we can put in American movies now.
