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Everything Everywhere All at Once is currently a front-runner for the Academy Award for Best Picture of 2022, after having pulled in many other film industry awards over the past couple of months. It has been nominated for 356 awards, and has won 335 of them.
This is a highly surreal and
imaginative blend of "slice of life", science fiction, fantasy,
martial arts and many other types of films. Michelle Yeoh stars as Evelyn Wang,
struggling owner of a financially-failed laundromat, and unhappy wife to
Waymond Wang (Ke Huy Quan), as well as mother to unhappy daughter Joy
(Stephanie Hsu) and daughter to disappointed patriarch Gong Gong (James Hong).
Facing foreclosure on the family business by slovenly IRS auditor Deirdre
Beaubeirdre (Jamie Lee Curtis), Evelyn appears to suffer a break from reality,
when an alternate universe version of her husband appears, warns her that her
help is needed to save a multiverse of realities from ultimate destruction,
then leaves her to deal with the chaos that ensues.
A reluctant Evelyn then finds
herself jumping from reality to reality, never quite grasping what's happening
to her, but making use of elaborate skills (including spectacular martial arts)
that each of her alternate world counterparts have. The gunfire-rapid changes
of settings and realities are counter-balanced by absolutely terrific
performances from everyone in the cast, particularly Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy
Quan (who played Indiana Jones' kid sidekick in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and one of the
Goonies in The Goonies, both back in the 1980s) — he has REALLY
turned into an excellent actor!
Everything Everywhere All at Once will not be for
everyone. But if you're willing to be patient, and perhaps view it more than
just once or twice, you'll be rewarded by picking up on the multiple layers of
storytelling, and perhaps you'll agree that it is definitely worthy of being
considered the best picture of last year!
( Internet Movie
Database entry for this film ) | ( official Everything Everywhere All at Once web site )
Recommended
by Scott C.
Bennett Martin Public Library — Public Service
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