The premiere of the Martian film returns to the screen one of the most familiar faces of the US cinema of the 80s.
It seems that in order for us to find the meaninglessness of our existence, at least in cinematographic fictions, we must go to the fragmentary story, to a mosaic (or puzzle) of different stories, moments, realities and identities. The Monty Python did it in ‘The meaning of life’ (Terry Jones, 1983), a film that began with an act of corporate family piracy to a multinational that could well be the Treasury office that will unleash the chaos of Michelle Yeoh’s character in ‘Everything at once everywhere’. The excessive, gratuitous and puzzle film by Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert owes a lot to the Pythons, at least to one of them: Terry Gilliam. The rich, fertile and feverish imaginary of the signer of Brazil is the common link of the alternative vignettes to which the protagonist jumps. Martial arts comics, science fiction worthy of Metal Hurlant magazine’s Moebius, romantic dystopias, watercolor evocations of stills by Wong Kar-wai… take turns in this concentric and amazing journey, ambitious in its staging and generous in his gargantuan feast of genres.
Impossible to define (although its title already does) what ‘Everything at the same time everywhere’ is. There is no need to. It is that vital, family, personal, generational or cosmic nonsense of sterile reading or linear exposition. Each new universe is like each story within a story in ‘The Manuscript Found in Zaragoza’ (Wojciech Has, 1965), with different narrators, points of view and radical changes in tonal perspective. However, it is possible that deep down everything is as simple as that the struggle of a person to be another is always something lost before the shell games of destiny (or destinies). Evelyn Wang continues to be like Eliot (Brendan Fraser) from ‘To hell with the devil’ (Harold Ramis, 2000), someone who is looking for his best version to collide with disaster and end up discovering that saving your day to day is even more heroic than saving the universe, or the multiverse.
For a public eager for unique experiences, all at the same time, everywhere
DATA SHEET
Address: Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert Distribution: Michelle Yeoh, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jonathan Ke Quan, James Hong, Anthony Molinari, Audrey Wasilewski Original title: Everything Everywhere All at Once Country: USA Year: 2022 Release date: 03–06-2022 Gender: fantastic Script: Dan Kwan, Daniel Scheinert Duration: 139 minutes
Synopsis: When an interdimensional rift alters reality, Evelyn (Michelle Yeoh), a Chinese immigrant to the United States, is thrown into a wild adventure where only she can save the world. Lost in the endless worlds of the multiverse, this unexpected heroine must harness her newfound powers to battle the strange and perplexing dangers of the multiverse as the fate of the world hangs in the balance.
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