Everything Everywhere All At Once Has Ruined All Other Multiverse Stories For Me

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Everything Everywhere All at Once is a masterpiece. It’s a blistering assault on the senses that is equal parts heartfelt, funny, action-packed, intelligent, nuanced, and unlike anything I’ve ever seen before. After this, multiverse fiction will never be the same again.

Directors Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert have taken the concept of multiple neighbouring universes and expanded upon them with untold levels of imagination. No longer are these realms simply a place for brief visual gags and alternate versions of characters - looking at you, Doctor Strange - but a place where entire aspects of reality are given their own sense of agency with meaningful thematic depth and a place to exist alongside the overarching narrative. It’s a triumph, and I can’t stop thinking about it.

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The film follows Evelyn Wang, a dissatisfied laundromat owner played immaculately by genre legend Michelle Yeoh. She’s a woman who could have ruled the world, but instead ran away from home with her childhood sweetheart before investing in a failed business and starting a family that doesn’t seem to care about her at all. She’s anxious, depressed, unfulfilled, and trying to piece together a future that right now just doesn’t seem worth it.

Evelyn is going through the motions, content to get a divorce and continually isolating herself from others as her own insecurities become too much to bear. Until one fateful day in the tax office when her husband is suddenly possessed by an alternate version of himself from a parallel universe who tells his sceptical wife that she’s in danger and needs to follow his every word. She can turn left to her depressing audit appointment and continue on