After dropping our weekend guest off at the train station to return home, Rebecca, Louis, Rachel and I headed off to see Everything Everywhere All At Once at the Watershed cinema. Conditions for film watching were perfect: an idle, rainy Sunday afternoon - everyone else had the same idea as the screening was sold out. An electricity was in the room as the ads and trailers played out as a hungry audience prepared themselves for something very special...
What a crazy ambitious film this was. A Chinese immigrant struggles to pay her taxes and get embroiled in a bizarre scenario that results in hopping between multiverse. Tonally the film walked along the knifes edge of absurdity and sincerity, it's set pieces too were occasionally too bizarre to even believe they were unfurling in front of your eyes. On paper, the film should have been an incoherent mess, but it finds a way to layer in it's sci-fi shenanigans and bonkers moments in a way that's consistently entertaining and geared to blindsided you with its pathos. Like the best Edgar Wright films, every unscrupulous detail has purpose amidst the chaos. Your along for the ride as it hops genres and moods because the beating heart of the film is constantly in focus and relates to every human being on the planet. It surprised me a hundred times over and aptly for a film about dimensions shifting, I'm proud to live in a universe in which this film exisits.
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