Why Everything Everywhere All At Once, the movie by the Daniels, will win Best Picture at the Oscars
This is not a movie review.
For some, life doesn’t make a lot of sense. This is neither a post about my thoughts and feelings on the pandemic. It’s about something else and you may feel that way, too. You are probably reading this from your office, or from your home’s desktop, since now you work remotely, since you are a freelancer, or since you are unemployed.
If you do have a job, perhaps you wish that you had a different career.
Depressed? Anxious?
You just realized that the person who knows more about you is your therapist. Oh, yes, you go to therapy, and you go very often. All of a sudden, you are a grown up and life is just running over you. Everything everywhere, all at once, and you are just sitting there trying to find something about yourself.
It’s February 2023 and at this point we all know Everything Everywhere All At Once is a dramatic absurdist comedy directed by the Daniels: Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert. If you haven’t watched it, then the story is about a Chinese immigrant in the US who owns a laundromat and, as she deals with taxes, an adventure in the multiverse sucks her in. Don’t worry, it’s not a complicated thing to understand as Christopher Nolan’s Tenet. At the end of it, you will realize t’s all about connection, and how each person is a whole different Universe, and how difficult it is for us to communicate, but no matter how physically close we live from each other, it is our duty, if we love each other, to go through that whole adventure to deliver the message. I am here for you.
But enough has been said about the film.
I’m not necessarily interested in analyzing Everything Everywhere All At Once. I feel like the film doesn’t even need to be analyzed. It is way is more important to analyze why this movie, this so called Everything Everywhere All At Once, will win the Oscar’s golden statue for Best Picture, this March 12th.
Let’s talk about generations. It’s interesting how a movie can be a nonsensical garbage for some, while it can become an Anthem for others. But it’s not just “some others”. It’s about a whole largo group of individuals. Think about the film directed by Robert Zemeckis, Back to the Future. It became a myth for a specific generation. Even-though some youngsters deeply enjoy it as well, there is a lot of people who believe that it is an overrated film. I believe that EEAAO will be for Millennials, what Back to the Future has become for Generation X.
At this point, you might think that I am a crazy EEAAO fan. Not quite. I am actually confident that it won’t win more than three statues. Probably two. Best Picture and Editing. There is that wonderful german anti-war film, All Quiet On The Western Front, directed by Edward Berger, which may win take most of the statues home. And the Banshees of Inisherin, by Martin McDonagh…
Okay, let’s not talk about the rest of the nominated films, because there are plenty of great movies this time.
This year, the competition is fierce, but I dare to say that our Best Picture winner is going to be the absurdist take on life, EEAAO, due to the generational transcendence I just mentioned.
If you haven’t watched EEAAO yet, you should definitely give it a chance. You may hate it and that’s awesome. I love to hate some movies, because at least they made me hate them. I tend to avoid films that don’t make me feel anything. EEAAO is also distributed by A24, the distribution and production company that is becoming one of the most rich sources of film quality and identity in the last decade. Every time I get to see their logo before a trailer, I get thrilled. A24 always deliver.
If you already watched it and you liked that bananas movie, that absurd take on reality, then you should definitely seek for a movie directed by the same directors, the Daniels, called Swiss Army Man (2016), with Paul Dano and Daniel Radcliffe. That movie is quite a little more than just an hour and a half fart joke.
Who knows, I may write something about it in the future.
