«Everything Everywhere All at Once» by the Daniels is back in theaters from February 2nd with 11 Oscar nominations. An intricate adventure that looks like “a trip on acid”
A modest proposal: accompany certain films with the warning «Not recommended for adults of…». Not to prohibit viewing, but to warn the viewer that that title is made for a particular audience. For instance Everything Everywhere All at Once
right from the title (more or less «Everything everywhere suddenly») should make it clear that, beyond the 11 nomination with which it competes Oscara “pluritasking” spectator, capable of a speed of mental reaction and visual that already after the age of 25 could reveal some flaws.
At first everything seems to take place in the most comfortable normality: Evelyn Wang (Michelle Yeoh) runs a Automatic laundry somewhere in the US with theclumsy husband Waymond (Ke Huy Quan) while taking care of his old father Gong Gong (James Hong) and struggling to accept the lesbianism of his daughter Joy (Stephanie Hsu) who would like to present his girlfriend Becky (Tallie Medel) at her grandfather’s birthday party. But to ruin this already perilous daily grind comes the summons of tax officer Deirdre (Jamie Lee Curtis), who answers the deductions Evelyn would like to file.
And here right in the tax office the woman feels like sucked somewhere else: it is the call of alternate dimensions to the everyday world, those – as a husband also suddenly changed in character explains to her – where Evelyn is no longer one modest merchant of the so-called «Alphaverse» but one brilliant scientist that she discovered how to “temporarily link her consciousness with other versions of herself by accessing all of her others memory».
Already here the mind paleo-cartesian of a thirty-year-old spectator begins to waver: think of «Matrix» and to its two universes, maybe it goes up to «Spider-Man: No Way Home» with his triple multiverse, each however easily — so to speak — identifiable by a different Spider-Man because played by different actors. Here, however, things are immediately very more complicated because it’s always Michelle Yeoh (unforgotten swordswoman of «The Tiger and the Dragon”) which varies «identity» with the lightning speed, from movie star to cook, from scientist to lesbian lover with strange fingers that look like frankfurters. She is also followed by her husband Waymond who occasionally appears below other remains. And it doesn’t end there, because everything hangs over the threat of the mysterious Jobu Tupaki who seems to enjoy confusing the various multiverses to precipitate them in chaos.
While the supporting actors of theAlphaverse they come back every now and then to peep into the alternate dimensions in which Evelyn moves, naturally assuming different and more aggressive identities so as to force our no longer very young heroine to show off her still remarkable qualities of kung-fu championthe aforementioned pseudo-Cartesian spectator would expect the «chaos» created by Tupaki (also with an identity from the Alphaverse) to gradually thinned out. At least that’s how it happened in the films we were used to. And instead here the two directors-screenwriters Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinertnicknamed «the Daniels»they seem to enjoy making everything even more intricate, more confusing, more multiversico.
Released last March a bit alla little girl in the United States and exploded by surprise at box office overcoming i 100 million in cash (despite the pandemic), the film has fascinated younger audiences, accustomed to reasoning with the certainly not Cartesian logic of video games and eager, as one user wrote, to try what it sounds like “a trip on acid”. Now, on the strength of his 11 nominations, he returns to Italian screens (he had come out unnoticed in October) in search of an audience that perhaps will not recognize all the winks (He pays for it too «2001 A Space Odyssey»), but is willing to be stunned by a ultra-kinetic cinema. Provided – it should be remembered – that you don’t have the synapses a little numb from age.
January 29, 2023 (change January 29, 2023 | 22:21)
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