Three-Line Movie Review*
Everything Everywhere All At Once
The only reason I went to see Daniels’ “Everything Everywhere All At Once,” besides loving the title (my life?), was because it stars Michelle Yeo, and I have always loved her face, at least ever since she flew through the air in “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” evoking a gasped holy shit from my friend Bill Martin who sat next to me in another life (verse?) at Mann’s Chinese theater. I should come clean here and confess that I don’t like sci-fi, and I don’t like superheros, nor the word multiverse, and the suffix meta gives me agita, and this movie is really — well — everything, everywhere, all at once, and I actually left about halfway through because I just couldn’t take it. I realize that despite Michelle Yeo’s face and the film’s brilliance — and it is brilliant in its refutation of cynicism even as it skewers modern life and aspirations — it just came at me too hard, too like a birthday party in my childhood, a celebration for everyone, it seemed, but me, after which I’d sit on the floor of my mother’s blue Camaro, my arms over my head, my eyes squeezed shut, too frantic, too meta multi much.
*Back in the good old days, I wrote these three-line movie reviews on my blog. You can check them out, if you’d like. I intend to start writing them again, now that going to the movies is possible.
More 3-Line Movie Reviews from the Archives
Learning to Drive
Love and Mercy
Not a Three Line Movie Review
While We're Young
Ida
Force Majeur
Gone Girl
Saint Vincent
Get on Up
Begin Again
Chef
The Immigrant
Cesar Chavez
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Gloria
Labor Day
Philomena
August: Osage County
Yes, Yes I'm with you Elizabeth! I can't put it as beautifully as you do, so thank you for what you say.
Looks like an interesting movie. I read The Midnight Library by Matt Haig, a similar concept, what if. I think we all do that, wonder what if we had made different choices. I had to laugh at the summary of the movie in IMDB, it says the movie is about an aging Chinese immigrant. We're the same age, me and Michelle. I guess I'm aging. Aren't we all?
Life goes on as always here.