‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’ has many details that fans don’t know, like ‘Waymond’ was a famous child actor but few remember him.
Apart from being in different universes, showing a lot of kung fu and a fair amount of comedy, it has multiple symbolisms between its scenes, did you notice them?
What do the circles in “Everything and everywhere all at once” mean?
From the beginning of ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’ you can see circles everywhere: especially in the windows of the laundries and in the notes made by Inspector Deidre (Jamie Lee Curtis, which can be seen in ‘Halloween’ on ViX+ , ViX’s premium streaming service) in Wang bureaucracy.
Also, in one of Evelyn Wang’s dialogues, the character played by Michelle Yeoh says: “for another year, pretending we know what we’re doing, but really we’re just going around in circles”
Although seemingly unrelated elements, the truth is that they hold a hidden message about the film’s plot.
According to Screen Rant, they represent Evelyn’s dissatisfaction with the life she has created with her husband Waymond and daughter Joy.
In turn, this feeling is what the evil version of Joy (Jobu Tupaki) ends up absorbing as a philosophy of life: she is not satisfied with anything, despite her ability to be “everywhere at once.”
In this sense, the circles of Everything Everywhere All At Once could be seen as the physical representation of one of the main themes that the film deals with: failure, and the different ways in which it can be seen.
What do the bagel and plastic eyes mean in ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’?
Not for nothing “Everything Everywhere All At Once” was one of the winning films of the Golden Globes 2023, because in addition to circles it has other great symbolism.
One of the most important is the bagel that Jobu Tupaki creates to destroy the multiverse, but also to end herself. The other is the plastic eyes that Waymond puts everywhere that Evelyn ends up using in the film’s final fight.
Visually, both symbols are opposites: the bagel is black with a white circle in the middle, while the plastic eyes are white with a black circle in the middle.
Because of their colors they resemble the Chinese philosophy of yin and yang, which states that there are two opposite forces that are opposite, but at the same time complementary and necessary for the balance of the universe.
Similarly, the bagel represents Jobu Tupaki’s nihilistic vision of the universe, in which the value of all existence is denied.
On the other hand, the plastic eyes frame existentialism, a philosophical current that seeks answers to human existence, with which Evelyn agrees at the end of the film.
Did you know these hidden symbols in “Everything Everywhere All At Once”? What did you think of the movie?
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Source: univision
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