(Keep reading)Įverything Everywhere All at Once is a work of alternate universe genius. As it turns out, these conflicts reflect a much larger and graver one elsewhere in the multiverse, where another version of Joy morphed into a bloodthirsty, omnipotent being after her universe’s Evelyn pushed her beyond her limits. The film takes place over the course of a single day, during which Evelyn’s struggling laundromat is audited by the IRS, her husband tries to serve her divorce papers, and her estranged father visits from Hong Kong, to whom Joy tries to come out as queer. It’s also a question posed by Evelyn’s father, Gong Gong (James Hong), who comes to a bleaker conclusion. This is an unspoken question that Evelyn Wang (Michelle Yeoh) wonders of her adult daughter, Joy (Stephanie Hsu), in the Daniels’ Oscar-nominated Everything Everywhere All at Once. ![]() When familial familiarity is supplanted by incomprehensible shifts, sometimes an unthinkable question is asked: is this stranger with my child’s face someone I can still love? What’s more, the children we birth in the land we now call home may not make sense to us either. But the journey, for an immigrant family, can lead to the kind of transformation that renders us unrecognizable to those we leave behind. In the world we live in now, a flight between Hong Kong and Los Angeles is just 13 hours long. ![]() And the nominee is: Everything Everywhere All at Once.Įverything Everywhere All at Once Offers a Hopeful Vision for Immigrant Families In the meantime, we’re recommending the books and films you and should read and watch next for each Best Picture contender. (Exhibit A: If they gave Oscars to books, our 2022 nominees.) And while there are few adaptations in this year’s lineup, we’ll still be tuning in on Sunday to celebrate storytelling, judge the Academy’s taste, and perhaps witness some live drama. Sure, we’re a website about books, but that doesn’t mean we can’t get in on the Oscars fun, too.
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