Hi, Today Im going to
explain an American absurdist comedy-drama film
called “Everything Everywhere All at Once”.
Spoilers ahead!!
The protagonist Evelyn Wang is a Chinese-American
who came to the US long ago with her husband
Waymond. The couple runs a laundromat which
has been struggling for the past few years.
It is currently being audited by the
IRS and is at risk of being closed.
Evelyn’s life has not turned out
how she wanted to. Her daughter Joy
is in a lesbian relationship that she doesn’t
approve of and her husband Waymond is seeking
to get a divorce in their loveless marriage.
Moreover, she is soon being visited by her father
Gong who never wanted her to leave China.
In the following scene, Evelyn, Waymond,
and her father go to the IRS office to submit
the papers related to their business. The
three get on an elevator when something strange
happens. A force hits Waymond and makes him act
strange. His demeanor changes entirely, almost
as if he changed into a different person.
He turns toward his wife and tells her that
her life is in danger. He doesn’t have much
time to explain because the real Waymond
will come back to his body in a second.
He makes her wear a headset and gives her
a set of notes to follow when he is gone.
The headset starts working and shows him a panel
on his phone. Then, something strange happens
to Evelyn. She remembers every single thing
that has ever happened to her; from her birth,
to how she left China, to the birth of her
daughter, and how they drifted apart.
Suddenly, Waymond comes back to his normal
self, leaving Evelyn utterly confused.
They go to the IRS officer Deirdre and
show her the income and expenditure file.
She is not happy about the unnecessary
purchases done in the name of the business.
Their shop is on the verge of being frozen but all
Evelyn can think of is what happened earlier.
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She brings the paper out which asks her to switch
her shoes to the wrong feet, close her eyes,
and imagine herself in the Janitor’s closet.
When she does so, the entire reality changes.
Evelyn is able to make a second version of herself
whose consciousness is inside the janitor’s closet
with a different Waymond. She is in two places
at the same time, much to her astonishment.
Waymond then explains the truth about the
universe. In reality, the world is a cluster
of several universes called the multiverse.
There are trillions of earths in the trillion
universes that exist close to ours.
On every earth, lives a different version
of a person; one can be a doctor, a pilot, an
animal, or even a rock. Similarly, this Waymond
belongs to the universe named alpha. It is the
most advanced universe so far and the one that
discovered the concept of the multiverse.
In alpha earth, Evelyn is a scientist who
found out a way to make one’s consciousness
travel into a different universe. Using the
same process, alpha Waymond transferred his
consciousness into the Waymond of this world.
Evelyn still doesn’t know what he is and why he
has come to her. Alpha Waymond replies that the
entire world is at the risk of being destroyed
by her daughter Joy. In the alpha world,
Joy was the most talented bouncer who could
exist in several universes at a time.
Evelyn pushed her limits and made a malfunction
in the system which gave Joy the power to exist
in every single universe at the same time. She
gained knowledge about trillion versions of
herself and came to the conclusion that nothing
matters. The world is a lie and humans are just
a pack of misery. To end this misery and
gain eternal peace, she created a black hole
called the everything bagel black hole.
She wants to suck the multiverse inside
and end everything to ever exist. The only
person who can stop Joy is Evelyn. Hence,
Joy is going into universes one after another
to kill all versions of her mother.
This version of Evelyn is the saddest one so far.
She hasn’t done anything significant in her life
or in her career, unlike all other versions
of herself who are successful to some level.
Hence, Alpha Waymond believes that
she is the one out of trillions of
Evelyn who will help save the multiverse.
Alpha Joy is evil and is sending several people to
kill Evelyn. Hence, she should immediately learn
to defend herself. In some universes, Evelyn is a
martial art expert. If she jumps into one such
universe, she will be able to learn the skills
instantly which will further help her fight.
Right then, they are attacked by the Joy’s
minions who have found where Alpha Waymond is.
Deirdre also attacks them, having been taken
over by her alpha version. In the middle of the
fight, Evelyn jumps universes for the first time,
looking for a universe where she is a martial
art expert. However, she accidentally reaches
a universe in the future where she and her
husband are discussing their divorce.
Evelyn jumps back to her world and tries
for the second time. Fortunately for her,
this time she reaches the universe where
she is an expert fighter. In this reality,
she chose to stay in China rather than come
to the US with Waymond. She eventually grew
up to be an expert in martial arts and a highly
successful actress. She lives that life for a few
seconds and returns to the original world.
Evelyn can almost not believe that one single
decision made such a harsh difference in her
life. But before she can overthink the mistake,
she is attacked by Deirdre. She beats her
ass this time, having learned everything
that the actress version of herself knew.
When everything calms down, Alpha Waymond asks her
to eat. While she is at it, she again envisions
herself in the world where she is an actress.
In an event, Alpha Waymond comes to meet her.
Without her, he has also become a successful
businessman. They reunite after years but
the spark between them is still present.
Alpha Waymond brings her out of her dreams because
they have to get away before the evil Joy arrives.
What they do not know is that Joy
has taken over Evelyn’s daughter
and is inside the building already.
Alpha Waymond loses connection and returns
to his own world, leaving Evelyn alone. A
few minutes later, Evelyn meets the evil joy,
dressed in her signature funky clothing.
She has the power to manifest and change
anything about all universes. She causes a
policeman to turn into confetti and starts
performing salsa dance with the other.
She also fights a man using adult toys,
leaving Evelyn in utter shock. After defeating
everyone else, she walks toward Evelyn,
ready to kill her as well. Just then, Evelyn makes
a jump to a universe where she can learn more
fighting skills. However, she ends up in a place
where people have hotdogs for fingers. In this
world, she is in a relationship with Deirdre who
loves to watch people eat each other’s fingers.
Because of this mistake, she is about to be
killed but is saved by Alpha Gong. A while later,
all the alphas disappear, leaving Joy
and Waymond confused. Evelyn tries
explaining everything to them but the two
do not believe in her absurd stories.
By now, the evil Joy has taken
many people under her control
and is making them attack the family. Evelyn goes
into different realities to acquire all knowledge
that the different versions of herself know.
She finds herself to be a blind woman, a singer,
a cook, an artist, and a street artist for
a pizza company in different universes.
Using the skills of all the versions, she
is able to defeat everyone in one go.
In the end, she is exhausted and is held by
the alpha Waymond. Back on the alpha planet,
Joy gets to her father and kills him. As
a result, he dies in Evelyn’s arm as well,
leaving only the original Waymond behind.
Following that, Joy comes to Evelyn again,
confident that no one will stop her
this time. Evelyn tries going into
more universes but it makes her sick. Joy
laughs at her and leaves her to die.
In the next scene, Evelyn wakes up as the
actress watching the premier of her new film.
She simultaneously wakes up as a cook in the
movie “Raccaouille” where the rat is a raccoon.
Being in so many realities at once
is too hard for her to take.
Suddenly, everything shuts down and she
goes back to her future self who is in her
office after the meeting at the IRS. They are
preparing for the Chinese new year celebration.
Evelyn runs to Joy and asks her if she is fine.
She soon figures out the person she is talking
to is the evil Joy. The mother and daughter face
each other in different realities, even in the one
where they are born as pinatas. In the process,
Evelyn also goes through the same malfunction
that made Joy evil. She meets every single version
of herself and realizes that nothing matters.
In every life, she is miserable in one way or the
other and the same goes for everyone who is ever
born. Evelyn finally understands why her daughter
wants to end everything and sides with her.
In the following scene, we are shown another
reality where the mother and daughter are rocks
on a cliff. They chat through telepathy and
tell each other that even in a life as a rock,
they are miserable. They decide that there
is no point in the world’s existence,
so they should end it as a whole.
The two are finally in front of the
everything bagel black hole, ready to
sacrifice themselves. At this moment,
Evelyn gets an epiphany. She focuses on herself
who is currently in her laundromat. Deirdre has
come with the police to arrest her for tax fraud
and the chaos she caused at the IRS office today.
She is handcuffed while her husband talks to
Deirdre, trying to convince her to let them go.
He finally convinces her and they get a
week to submit the proper audit of the shop.
He then comes to his wife, assuring her
everything will be fine. This makes Evelyn
realize there are some things in life that
matter; little things that make it worth living,
unlike what she had thought earlier.
In the reality where she is an actress,
she and Waymond meet in an alley after the movie
premiere. There are a lot of things holding them
back from being with each other. But Evelyn keeps
them aside and declares that they should date.
Likewise, in the hotdog hands reality, she and
Deirdre solve their differences and live as a
happy couple. In all trillion universes, Evelyn
finds something that is worth the life they live.
And hence, she hugs Waymond, refusing to go
into the black hole with the evil Joy.
Joy sends an army of people to attack her but
Evelyn makes them understand the revelation
she just had. In the end, they are also
convinced that life is worth living.
However, Joy doesn’t feel the same. She
walks towards the black hole to end herself.
In another reality, Evelyn introduces Joy’s
girlfriend to her father, not ashamed of her
daughter anymore. They mend their relationship
and embrace each other in a last hug.
As a result, the evil Joy also comes to terms with
the reality of life; even if the entire world is
against you, there is always one thing or a person
who makes life worth living. Evelyn, Waymond,
and Gong collectively pull evil Joy out of the
bagel and bring her back to her normal self.
The scene cuts to a week later.
The family is outside the IRS
office to submit the final draft of the audit.
They have accepted Joy’s girlfriend as a part
of their family and Joy couldn’t be happier.
Evelyn and Waymond were about to get a divorce
but the incidents have made their love stronger
than ever. Evelyn listens to him and respects
him as she did years ago. Deirdre gets a
look at the final audit and approves it.
It turns out the family is bad at
doing taxes only because they don’t
understand the big words in the documents.
The movie ends as Evelyn looks at her family
with pride. She is finally happy with how her
life turned out, even after knowing many other
possibilities she could have become.
Thank You.
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