‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’ review – a unique masterpiece that needs to be framed

The alternative universe where a mother and daughter still don’t meet face to face changes the future of the film industry that we all know. The ‘Daniels’, Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, has taken the world by storm as they’ve currently won 83 awards including ‘Best Picture’ at the ‘Critics’ Choice Movie Awards’ a few days ago. The exhilarating movie is led by ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ Michelle Yeoh and ‘The Marvelous Mrs Maisel’ Stephanie Hsu.

The story of Evelyn played by Yeoh, Chinese-American woman, who co-owns a rundown laundromat with her husband Waymond (Ke Huy Quan). Evelyn cannot accept her daughter’s, Joy, sexuality. Preparing for their tax audit we meet their tax officer Deirdre Beaubeidra (Jamie Lee Curtis) who is furious at Evelyn for putting down a karaoke machine purchase for a tax claim deduction. Which then leads to a whirlwind of the alternative universes introducing the different alphas of the main characters.

From a black belt in karate to a traditional Chinese opera singer, the world is apparently limitless in the movie. However, can it be a movie with the antagonist? Joy being her own self-destructor and aims to destroy every alpha version of her family to then end her life. With all of her feelings and pain into a bagel, Evelyn eventually understands her daughter’s pain and tries to reconnect with her.

The costuming to the graphic designs is what makes the movie extraordinarily unique yet the same. It follows the story of a common family dynamic and changes it into so much, it’s absurd but in a good way that makes you want to grab the tissues before the waterworks come through. The title being divided into 3 different parts felt like a rollercoaster of anxiety and created the itchy feeling of wanting more as the 2 hours passed by.