GameStar writer Alex loves many of Ari Aster and A24’s films. Now he has finally seen “Everything Everywhere at Once” from 2022 – and can only recommend it to everyone.
“If we consider that we are all crazy,” Mark Twain is said to have once said, “life is explained.” This is true for better or for worse and also explains the fact that there are films like “Everything Everywhere All at Once” that are hard to beat in terms of craziness.
“Everything Everywhere All at Once” is a film by the production and film distribution studio A24, which has been around for years – for example with Ari Aster and Robert Eggers films – tries to drive your mind and all reason out of youwhich also works brilliantly.
The studio and its filmmakers are known for using so many vague metaphors that you have to look up the actual plot of the film on the Internet. And the most successful film was: “Everything Everywhere All at Once”. It grossed over $129 million worldwide and won seven Oscars, confirming the suspicion that there really is no shortage of crazy people in this world.
Alexander Krützfeldt has written four books, a screenplay, and two books under other names, which he’s not allowed to talk about publicly, but that’s cool. A secret agent of His Majesty. He also writes for GameStar, for Die Zeit, Zeit Magazin and FAZ. That’s cool and sounds great. He hasn’t been on vacation for years, but that’s okay. Somehow.
The plot is quickly explained (spoiler-free): The main character, the Chinese immigrant Evelyn Wang, runs a laundromat in a US city. When she files her taxes, she becomes involved in an adventure involving… the Multiverse have to deal with. So far, so normal for immigrants in the USA or here.
Evelyn’s daughter is a bit depressed, which is not unusual at her age when you have some kind of pain in your body but don’t yet know that it’s real right one Desperation only begins with age, and her husband Waymond is also a rather passive person and not exactly a jackpot that you want to carry home over your shoulder.
As if the film’s premise wasn’t already absurd enough, the film of course goes one better. He plays with Matrix, Bollywood and at the same time brings the old kung fu film back to life in all its glory that Bruce Lee would really enjoy. The film, one could say, wants to close itself to all attributions and not be read coherently. That’s great, to put it mildly. Otherwise we wouldn’t have had Franz Kafka.
video">
2:51 Everything Everywhere All at Once – You don’t see a trailer like this every day
An unforgettable trip
Personally, I love stories that don’t follow the plot, but rather in excess. It’s like someone with ADHD saying they know a great place to vacation and then Googling who ruled Uruguay in the 1970s. This is no longer a coherent story, but debauchery means joy in life! Dancing all night long. Colorful clothes, in the quivering neon lights of a remote jungle party.
“Everything Everywhere All at Once” is roughly the same. A trip. How Ari Aster’s “Hereditary” was a trip, or “Midsomar.” But unlike these two, and this is perhaps his strength, he doesn’t remain vague at the end. Tells this film to the end. Because while it was funny in “Hereditary” and “Midsomar” that the storm of metaphors and allusions drummed like rain on a tin roof, what was annoying was that the story always remained open and vague where it could have used a certain level of clarity.
“Everything Everywhere All at Once” actually moved me to tears at the end. Because here a completely crazy basis was used in order to ultimately handle the conflict and character development in a mundane, real, tangible and technically clean manner. The film ends very differently than its beginning suggests: completely down to earth. And that’s the great thing about cinema, when you’re finally surprised again – with all these Marvel films.
The normal madness: Jamie Lee Curtis as a clerk in the tax office.
Don’t be afraid of new things
The reason I’m such a big fan of A24 films is because they have the courage to reinvigorate genres like horror films. Not every film is equally good, of course. And I wouldn’t sign every hymn of praise like that, even if my opinion doesn’t particularly count.
But it’s like the authors Samatha Schweblin, Mariana Enríquez and Mónica Ojeda, three writers who are currently revitalizing the Latin American horror novel: a little bit of feminism, a little bit of adventure and experimentation and new voices, and the old practically shines in new splendor . “One Hundred Eyes” by Samatha Schweblin really fascinated me. And I read everything else. So I know a lot too.
Perhaps you have to give these obsessives credit for how serious they are and how much they get done with it. The horror film, for example, was and is dead, in my opinion. Ridiculous sequels and plots that are outrageously poorly described.
But what has never been made from Stephen King novels, a brilliant and innovative horror film, nothing with ghosts, but with the decomposition processes of a family – yes, yes, “Shining” was quite okay – that’s what Ari Aster manages to do in “Hereditary”. . And “Everything Everywhere All at Once” achieves this with the family and love film.
At the core of the crazy multiverse narrative are characters and problems that we can all relate to.
At the end, at the very end, when it becomes clear what the film is about, I really had to cry. And that wasn’t just years ago in front of the television. I was so moved by the meaning he spills on us at the very end, after all the confusion and confusion of his plot, and what that could mean.
For me, for us, for a society that is now full of crazy people. And by that I really mean the bad ones. That we need the positively crazy people to dream us away. So that they don’t let us down. So that they give us hope where there are few hopes.
Because maybe, just maybe, you have to be very crazy these days to be able to endure all of this. The film provides an answer to what is needed. And what he says is perhaps the true value of culture. Why you need it at all: Accepting poor pay and living precariously into adulthood while your school friends overtake you in their Porsche and go on an all-inclusive vacation.
Recently I was sitting with a very good friend, also a writer. “Why,” I ask after the fourth beer, “are we even doing this? We write stories like this for months or even years. In the end it doesn’t sell. In the end we get annoyed. What’s the point?«
Then he looked at me and there was something loving in his eyes: “Because at best we can comfort,” he said. And that, I think, is true. Even more so since I saw Everything Everywhere All at Once. Comfort is what we need. More comfort than ever.
2023-10-30 06:34:23
#absolutely #insane #film #prefer #Marvel #spectacles #put
