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"Before the beginning there was void. Nothing. No flesh. No rock. No air. No heat. No light. No dark. Nothing, save a single, perfect pearl. Within that pearl dreamed a mighty, unfathomable spirit-the One- Anu. Made of shining diamond. Anu was the sum of all things: good and evil, light and dark, physical and mystical, joy and sadness-all reflected across the crystalline facets of its form. And, within its eternal dream-state, Anu considered itself-all of its myriad facets. Seeking a state of total purity and perfection, Anu cast all evil from itself. All dissonance was gone. But what of the cast-off aspect of its being? The dark parts, the sharp, searing aspects of hate and pridefulness? Those could not remain in a state of separation, for all things are drawn to all things. All parts are drawn to the whole. Those discordant parts assembled into the Beast-the Dragon. Tathamet was his name-and he breathed unending death and darkness from his seven devouring heads. The Dragon was solely composed of Anu's cast-off aspects. The end sum of the whole became a singular Evil- the Prime Evil, from which all the vileness would eventually spread throughout existence. Though separate beings, Anu and the Dragon were bound together within the Pearl's shadowed womb. There they warred against each other in an unending clash of light and shadow for ages uncounted. The diamond warrior and the seven-headed dragon proved to be the equal of the other, neither ever gaining the upper hand in their fierce and unending combat-till at last, their energies nearly spent after countless millennia of battle, the two combatants delivered their final blows. The energies unleashed by their impossible fury ignited an explosion of light and matter so vast and terrible that it birthed the very universe all around us. All of the stars above and the darkness that binds them. All that we touch. All that we feel. All that we know. All that is unknown. All of it continues through the night and the day in the ebbing and flowing of the ocean tides and in the destruction of fire and the creation of the seed. Everything of which we are aware, and that of which we are utterly unaware, was created with the deaths of Anu and the Dragon, Tathamet. In the epicenter of reality lies Pandemonium, the scar of the universe's violent birth. At its chaotic center lay the Heart of Creation, a massive jewel unlike any other: the Eye of Anu- the Worldstone. It is the foundation stone of all places and times, a nexus of realities and vast, untold possibility. Anu and Tathamet are no more, yet their distinct essences permeated the nascent universe-and eventually became the bedrock of what we know to be the High Heavens and the Burning Hells. Anu's shining spine spun out into the primordial darkness, where it slowed and cooled. Over countless ages it formed into the Crystal Arch, around which the High Heavens took shape and form. Though Anu was gone, some resonance of it remained in the holy Arch. Spirits bled forth from it-shining angels of light and sound who embodied the virtuous aspects of what the One had been. Yet, despite the grace and beauty of this shining realm, it lacked the perfection of Anu's spirit. Anu had passed into a benevolent place beyond this broken universe- a paradise of which nothing is known and yet represents perhaps the greatest-kept secret of Creation. Longed for, but unimaginable." -THE DAWN, BOOK OF CAIN.
Nassim Haramein have got the bagel kzhead.info/sun/hpR8m5tobn1sdnk/bejne.html
Uff!
A quote the video reminded me of: “You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.” -Albert Camus
Beautiful quote
I love Albert Camus. He was actually the “chef de fil” of the philosophical movement that drives the film. Absurdism
How is that in any way "profound"?
@@StopFear who said it was?
You are everything experiencing everything.
I love how the movie explores both types of nihilism. Jobu Tupaki represents negative nihilism: "nothing matters so why do anything or exist", whilst Evelyn represents positive nihilism: "nothing matters so why not choose what matters to you?". I think it's important to realise that anyone can choose their own path in life, by making a choice you reduce the chaos of our modern world
I'm of the opinion that everything matters as opposed to nothing matters. Instead of life having no meaning, I choose to subscribe to the idea that life has a superposition of infinite meanings, and we pick and choose which applies to us. The idea that meaning is just a fairytale simply doesn't sit well with me, positive or negative.
@@Karasamune I say whatever makes you happy or content or successful - whatever works for you, and that you can believe in, then by all means, do that. We don't really choose our beliefs. We each have a self, it interprets reality, and it arrives at the best set of advantages it can muster. But I would encourage you to wonder about why the most brilliant and the most clever among us are often the most tortured and broken. Why they are the best artists and inventors. No real point here, just something to consider. I've never met anyone who was incredibly satisfied with life who was anything but adequate in the mundane sense.
This reply section is awesome so far. Just different points being shared in an approachable and civil fashion. I like this part of the internet.
@@calowenby1654 Every once in a while that does happen despite massive evidence to the contrary. Cheers.
I don't think Evelyn represents positive nihilism, more that "nothing matters so I'll just keep doing what I'm doing" and that Waymond opens her up to that positive nihilism
When I first saw this movie in theatres, I couldn't help but cry uncontrollably. It felt as if someone had finally understood my inner turmoil and painted it on the canvas of film; The fight to believe in meaning when it feels as if nothing matters at all.
Praying for you because you must be terminally dumb.
Good for you, I guess...
Same, and I loved the way this video connects it to Bo Burnham's Inside, that's the only other film that's made me feel that way. The pandemic made us all so god damn online man.
Dude, same. I didnt realise how it was putting my mind into picture until the third act when you see how it affected everyone, and how I had felt all of those opinions myself. To listen to Evelyn say that there is nothing in the infinite universe of possibilities that she loves more than her daughter was mind-blowing to me because my biggest dream is to be able to say that about anything. To hear Waymond speak of how scary everything and how everyone is lost makes me cry because I feel the same. To see Jobu Topaki is scary because I know that deep down, part of me feels the same. I have watched this movie 3 times already and it still hits me like a truck because for how well it relates to my life, I'm still scared I won't find the same happy ending the movie did.
@@SCharlesDennicon unecessarily snooty reply
this movie is way too philosophical to be compared just to the internet. this film captures the true absurdity and randomness and chaos and terror about our existence in general. where nothing even matters at this point, anything is possible and anything can happen.
Yeah. I saw it more as the everything within a person who is at the same time being pushed inwards by the everything outside the person. And I have lived through that. And if you've been mentally ill or are neurodivergent, truly it feels like the universe is inside you sometimes. I don't know how to explain it. Could even be said that is the complexities of the human brain and human experience in a bagel + the outside world, too.
@@enie6359as a ND I truly get what you mean. Very well worded.
You missed the point of the movie if you still think “nothing even matters”
@@officialthomasjameswell no. if nothing matters, everything matters. that was also a theme tackled in the movie.
I also think this movie covers broader than the internet issue. It is questioning existence and exploring the meaning of life.
i have never seen a movie that made me cry and laugh then cry again within minutes for such a long period of time like Everything Everywhere All At Once.
But man I make entertaining vids as well
Love this movie so much, and your EEAAO reaction video is one of my all time faves!
I raise you The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Then you haven't seen #RRR
People share with me which film are you talking about
I don't think I had a more profound moment in a movie theater then when the laughter ceased in the rocks scene, to give in to a ponderous silence. Those new kinds of aesthetic experiences are what the hyper-textual entropy of our digital daily lives can gift us.
I don't think you are right about this. "Hyper-textual entropy of our digital daily lives can gift us". Can you explain what that means first of all, and what exactly is the movie telling us that is original or something people don't already believe in anyway. I would argue the movie does something different and much less profound. The directors already know that the message of the film is already that which most mainstream people in the western minded world believe, which is that "be nice", "be openminded", "don't overanalyze things", "accepts there are things you cannot change" etc. I think in a way the film could be interpreted as telling the viewer "Accept your lot in life", "Don't try to move up the social ladder." , "Don't try to make a lot of money." "Old people will die anyway, so don't care too much about them, care about making your children happy." Even using Michelle Yeoh's actual footage from her actress life as an alternate view of the main character's reality is a sort of strangely patronizing statement if you think about it since she is actually the real actress who plays the character. It is like a mockery of either the "immigrant experience" or of Chinese American experience. It suggests (without evidence in actual science yet) that whatever life you are experiencing is what you have, so know your place. Rich people are rich and they should not feel bad about the poor people around them, and that the poor people should keep toiling and be happy when they have other experiences even if they don't become rich, or achieve their previous goals.
The stark silence in the theater during that sequence is always incredible
@@settingittowumbo1953 it wasn't just a break for the characters, it was a break for the audience. A moment of peace in the midst of the chaos
@@StopFear Basically everything you said in your criticism just seems like you're projecting your own pessimistic cynicism onto the film. Virtually everyone in this comment section including myself interpreted the film as telling the viewer that if they think they are living their worst life and aren't good at anything, that only means there's even more possibilities and roads for them to take. "Stay in your place" was definitely not the message I got from the movie and I doubt the directors were going for that. The main theme of the movie seems to be that people living the worst lives have the most potential, the most "verse jumping points" as the movie puts it. "What exactly is the movie telling us that people don't know or believe anyway?" Well now you're just asking for the impossible lol, there's not a movie in existence that contains a completely original philisophical idea, nobody is claiming this movie invented anything, we're simply praising the effectiveness in which it conveys already existing ideas about the universe.
what the hell does hyper-textual entropy mean, I've never even heard those words before
It’s weird. I never interpreted it as the internet when I was watching the movie, but I still reached the same conclusion. I thought that at first Evelyn was so wrapped up in what was immediately in front of her that she couldn’t appreciate anything, it was always just something to deal with and move on from. Nothing mattered except that one thing she was dealing with at that moment. Then jobu tobacky takes the opposite approach, seeing everything everywhere in the universe existing all at once, all mattering, and reaches the conclusion that if every little thing matters, then none of it does. Life is just a game of statistics, nothing more, and so what’s the point in anything if everything in existence is there by random chance. Evelyn sees this approach and is almost sucked in when she has that conversation with waymond when he’s a businessman, and he tells her that he is a fighter by trying to just to be kind. This makes her realise that yes, nothing really matters, but that is alright because we are the ones who get to decide what actually matters to us. Nothing matters so we are free to do what we want and decide who we give our attention to
Personally I thought of it more of a metaphor for mental health and suicide. But I like this and love how it can interpreted in different ways. My favorite movie I’ve seen this year so far
it represents both :) thats why its so genius
It's based on absurdism; a philosophical response to nihilism proposed by Albert Camus. Faced with the human urge to search for meaning & the world's seeming meaninglessness, Camus states we have three options- actual suicide, philosophical suicide (a belief in a god or some abstract representation of it), or to revolt against it: accepting the contradiction between our search for meaning & the world's meaninglessness and choosing nonetheless to revel in every moment of existence, good or bad. This movie, like Camus, advocates for that choice.
Joy is represent that she has an idea of suicide. But She can't cause she can acknowledge and be in every universe that it unable to just die. Then she made the bagel and choose to suck it there into nothingness. And her perspective is close to nothing matters just a sad and meaningless life can cause you the suicide idea too.
cool maybne I should watch it then cuz I know if John Stevens like it then it must be good cuz he has very nice taste.
I think that’s because joy is attempting to leave and Evelyn wants her to stay. The symbolism of the bagel being a dark void also adds to that feeling. I felt the same way but this added context just makes the metaphor that much more vibrant
It’s very weird to be a film fan all my life, and to have seen thousands of films in my 40+ years, only to have Everything Everywhere All At Once become my favorite film of all time the very first time I saw it.
Very weird indeed. So many better films out there.
Is that really what a real "film fan" that has seen "thousands" in "40+ years" would say? What are some of your all-time favorites? Preferably in non-english languages
y'all contrarians here in the replies really determined to convince someone online that their personal feelings and opinion on a movie is wrong lmao also based OP, EEAAO is an instant classic
@@MajoraWaffle It's called recency bias. It'll fade quick.
@@N0va Ridiculing the sensibilities of others with smugness, implying intellectual and cultural superiority + Supporting your argument by mentioning the intellectual biases determining the mental life of the other = Multiple layers of irony that should make your ego humble
While I agree that Everything Everywhere All At Once is about the internet and society's existential relationship with it, I also think that if you were to remove the filter of the internet from both the film and our experience, the story's meaning would be the same. This film isn't the first time I've seen the bagel with everything. It's a motif I've seen in other films (Annihilation comes to mind), as well as in my own psyche. For me personally, it reads as the end-result of over-analyzing the meaning/meaninglessness of existence. It's time and space forever getting lost up is own ass, only to be crapped out again. And as in EEAAO, Annihilation, and every other incarnation I've seen it in, both in philosophy, life, and art, it really just means stop overthinking things before you get lost, and get on with the here and now. At least, that's how I read it.
I like the connection to Annihilation- (another movie I also love). I definitely think it's possible to see the bagel without the internet.
Yeah, it's not about the internet at all.
I like this perspective
@@JoeJoe-lq6bd I mean, it is. The metaphor is pretty directly applicable. But that's the thing about metaphor. It's just a template for the audience to lay over what they find directly relevant to them, to find new connections in the patterns of life. But it's not the same thing as allegory, which is just a cipher of symbols that are only to be interpreted one specific way. So the film's version of the multiverse CAN be interpreted as a metaphor for the influence of the internet over our lives, complete with funny animal memes, movie references, and really weird porn. But that doesn't mean it HAS to be interpreted that way, or that this is the only interpretation. J.R.R. Tolkien preferred the notion that his stories were applicable to real world events, not allegories for them. Because applicability lies in the freedom of the reader, while allegory is the purposed domination of the author.
same as the graphic novel 'the Nao of Brown', they also use washing machines as ensos in that book
Growing up in the internet has ingrained in me the love and desire to learn, but also a huge fear of the never-ending possibilities. Knowing that no matter what you do, you'll never be able to see it all (despite the internet literally allowing you to do exactly that) just horrifies me; the wasted potential scares me, so this video was exactly something I needed to hear today. Thank you so much.
Wow, you’re just like me. I try to do as much as I can with what God had gifted me. I’d hate to waste my potential. But you’re right when you say we can see it all
You won't see it all, but humanity can. That's all that matters.
I read this generationally when facing the idea of choices; Evelyn is reflecting on the choices she has made and feels trapped by them, while Joy has so many choices ahead of her and feels overwhelmed by them. Their disconnect drives the generational conflict in their family and builds the tension in the plot perfectly, being resolved when they find some common understanding of each other in the present.
The nihilistic outlook of the daughter was something I resonated with strongly as it was something I really struggled with in my teens.
I am 24, Took years and still somewhat exists..dont know if it ever leaves
It never really leaves. You just learn to deal (or don't).
This.
As a teen, I kind of wonder how does that feel. Would you mind to explain that to me?
@@mewhen1l3mon98 personally for me I just felt so lost and alone. With few friends at the time and a lack of understanding and sense of self I really did question the point of life. I’m a person which needs goals and aspersions, things to strive for. But like Joy when faced with the overwhelm of life I just gave up "There is no point so why should i care" is a phrase I would often rattle off in my head. Its like choosing not to commit or try in life was better than the torment and discomfort of trying to really live life and find out what was important to me and what I wanted to commit to. It was only once I finished British secondary that after thinking about the question for years I realised "there's no point, but thats ok" it was a weird sudden realisation and since then its just been developing a sense of self and purpose. sorry if this was a bit rambly i have just woken up 😅 if you have any questions I will do my best to answer but I am a work in progress so yeah hopefully i dont disappoint.
i feel like its truly a testament to just how chronically online i am that i didnt even think the things that happened in the movie were THAT absurd and random while watching. like it wasnt until i finished it and went on to watch reaction and review videos and other content like these that it settled in that yea maybe some stuff were on the more unusual side. its genuinely crazy how desensitized ive become from basically living on the internet for years now that a lot of stuff doesnt faze me anymore
Very sorry for you.
I know what you mean. What all does faze you nowadays?
Well said.
same, i think its because I have a few moments in my life where I could picture out scenarios in my head that are unimaginable that I made the same conclusion with this comment.
Having watched the movie like 4 hours ago, I consider myself to live a very similar life to what you just described (although I only use mainly KZhead), and I still felt like most of the stuff in the movie was very out of place (in a good way, if that makes sense), but maybe it's just that you watch crazier shit than me
I like how the movie's hypothesis for the technique to jump to other universes is doing something very unusual one would never do. I think this perfectly illustrate the ''magic happens outside of your comfort zone'' concept. Doing what we don't usually do can make us shift to another paradygm kind of thing.
“Understand what DOESN’T matter to you” that was powerful. Thank you.
This has been haunting me since I read "The Library of Babel" 30 years ago. If you have access to everything with no effort at all everything loses it's meaning. Even Heaven would relatively quickly turn into Hell, how many millennia would it take for us to fall into a state of catatonic ennui?
I had the same conclusion when I went into creative mode in Minecraft
Heaven and Hell are just biblical terms... they don't actually exist.
@@suteernachoudhury2845 yes but most people become faithful because they don't want to die, they want to go to Heaven. My point is that "going to Heaven" is no prize, it would be just another form of eternal suffering. _Any_ form of immortality where you don't have the option to _end_ your existence sooner or later would become a torment.
@@theboss3721 exactly! The fun part is striving to gather the stuff you need to build an amazing mansion/castle/whatever, otherwise it gets boring fast.
Well, that's the issue with thinking of eternity as endless duration. The Library of Babel is a reduced infinity of random symbolic variations, where meaning arises purely from the finite meaning-making capacities of the "reader." In all classical religious and philosophical thought, though, eternity has been understood as not only truly infinite (transcending spacetime) but properly intelligible, hence inexhaustibly meaningful.
I saw this movie 2 times in a week. Instantly became my favourite of all time. My sister in law saw it, she said "it's good, but i don't understand whats fantastic about it" After some talking i reallised that the movie hits harder when you identify with the themes... If you really felt, in some point of your life, the existencialist void, the senseless of existence, and the urge to end it all just to get out of all that, then the movie will touch you right in the core. So probably if you are still in your 20's and never had the experience of existencial void, then it's just a jackie chan styled comedy.
I'm not so sure, I think you may underestimate to some extent, how often and in how many different ways and this 'feeling' can present itself and crop up in one's living experience, and what affects this can have on an individual, I think for one, it's something we are all collectively experiencing to varying degrees perhaps depending on how connected to the internet you feel, an unseen and hard to recognise force, once you shine a light on it, or begin to think about it, it changes, many pits of analysis paralysis just prevent further understanding of this on an individual level. I'm only 25, but I have been having these experiences since roughly 13, no doubt accelerated by drug experimentation for better or worse, but i've just stumbled across this channel, and across this video about a film i've yet to watch, and i'm extremely comforted that it's not simply me going crazy at times, and instead a very real phenomenon with very real world effects and implications. Not entirely sure this is related but it's as if time moves differently on the internet, and involvement in many sub cultures, understanding of in jokes, memes, over the years have meant that it has become as much as my own character, no longer being able to keep up with the pace of it now, and so now I feel quite genuinely lost.
Yeah I agree that the connection of the movie comes from having those experiences in real life and connecting to it through those experiences, but you don't have to be old to understand that feeling of existential dread and emptiness. I'm 18, and I connected to this movie a lot more strongly than my mom. I know a lot of people my age are feeling a communal sense of dread about life and our future, with so many things in the world going wrong. That's why my age so strongly related to Bo Burnham's Inside, and this movie about generational trauma, the internet, and nihilism. Young generations carry a lot more fear for our world than older generations give us credit for.
I agreed with you until the last sentence. I think us younger generations have had those existential crisis and viewing the world as vain and empty more than you have because of how rapid and fast paced the world has become and how we are exposed every day to every little detail of every corner of this world on the tip of our fingers. you try to adapt and accept what is new, only to find out that it became old news and irrelevant and things have changed once again, and how pressuring that can be. I think at your time you'd realize how much things changed every 10 years or so, now its like every year, heck every month even depending on what your focusing on and more so post-covid and with the global inflation that is happening
I am 17 years old and I know exactly what you are talking about. Thomas makes a really good point, the kids are speeding up and no one knows what to do about it.
I'm 16 and I cried more than I should have watching that movie...the rocks scene was my favorite, everything was so peaceful. I never realized how life was so busy and loud, and I never had time to sit down and just "be here" Not stuck in the past not paranoid of the future. No worries, no goals, no worries, nothing matters, Its perfect. I just want to be a rock lmao. I won't move or speak or need to eat, but still, I would feel alive and maybe even "happy". Be a rock 🗿
I have never really been able to point out the right words to describe what feelings this movie gave me, and I really tried so hard since this movie is probably one of the fav of my life if not THE movie of my life. But this video points out exactly the right words. I experienced exactly what is described : - First, a fascination of the infinite possibilities discovered by growing with the Internet since my childhood - Then, around 20 years old, an immense feeling of nothing matters that could give me an infinite energy of life or the total opposite, a strong depression and feeling of nothingness. - Finally, it's been a year (I'm 25 now) that i'm doing an ultra focus on what is in front of me, on the reality I'm experiencing, and on what trully matters to ME. And it feels exactly like the end of the movie. Comforting, peaceful, not perfect or ideal but REAL and authentic. And on top of that, I am still deeply fascinated by the infinite possibilities of life, that I'm still discovering through the internet. But this time, I just feel like I can pick one of those possibilities, one that would fit to who I am, and fully appreciate it without thinking about other possibilities. Until I feel like I want to explore another one, which I do without asking myself any question. Chose your possibilities and the one that matters to you, appreciate the ones that life puts in front of you and the ones you did not chose.
I went through the same process
I never really noticed how much being raised on (by?) the internet has effected me until today. I feel like my 'clay pot' is leaking I suppose. I can barely shut my mind off to do something as simple as read a book or do my assignments, because I'm used to being so stimulated all the time. My mind is constantly racing with no breaks in between.
My attention span's only been getting better these past two months, which is funny because as a little kid, I could stare at the same thing for six hours straight. A good prescription after years of bad ones+a lot of journeying through forgotten memories and parts of myself got me to where I am. It's probably different for everyone, but what helps for me is not being in the same place too long. I go outside on walks or sit in my living room when at all possible. Irl socialization and making Internet use itself less stimulating (aka having few tabs open, keeping track of my time on certain things, finding new things to do online, avoiding short form content, etc) is also very useful. I'd also do a lot of internal thinking and reflecting and seek professional help. The right medication often makes a big difference, even though depending on where you live, that can be challenging. It's a very horrible problem to face, as not many people understand it at all and trying to solve it yourself when your brain is already in no mood for problem solving is insanely hard. Hopefully in the future, more mental healthcare focuses on attention span improvement. In the meantime, stay strong. It's a horrifying thing, but when you finally get your first few moments of internal peace after years of hanging on, it'll all be worth it in the end. Godspeed, my fellow human.
Jesus this just connected so many things in my brain that I've been thinking about lately in a way that I feel stupid for not realizing til now. I loved everything everywhere all at once but somehow didn't ever consciously understand that it was a metaphor for constant social media & internet overload til watching this. Lately I've felt like any time I spend too long on my phone I come away with this feeling of nothingness that's so pervasive and empty and solitary that I easily start to fall down that disconnected, nihilistic rabbit hole you're describing--but I start to feel a little better when I remind myself of how many other people are also feeling this way, and that some are turning that feeling into art in hopes to maybe help others (and themselves) dig there way out of it. Fuck man. Way to have your finger on the pulse with these videos, and consistently finding new and interesting ways to talk about movies. Cheers
We all feel this way sometimes. For me, just stepping outside helps so much. The sky doesn’t care about anything, the birds don’t know about my problems.. that’s strangely comforting
I think the internet metaphor definitely has credence because on twitter, one of the directors Daniel Kwan responded to a comment mentioning that they loved it but it would be quite hard to show the movie to their family due to the sexual stuff. Kwan responded saying that they thought about making it PG-13, but that the current younger generations are exposed to everything on the internet as children now and thought it should be included. (Full quote of Kwan's tweet below) "Yeah we had convos early on about whether or not the film could be PG13, but then we remembered the movie was a metaphor for the generation gap between us (who grew up on the internet, exposed to everything as children) and our parents. The sex stuff suddenly felt necessary."
This probably explains why this movie resonated so hard with me but fell flat with others. I struggle so hard with the skills to be present irl that the internet is where it is easy to express myself and find what I am looking for. It starts to make the real world feel empty and unimportant just for you to be whiplashed back to the pressures of life that you've been ignoring. Being able to balance this dichotomy is your brain is hard to grapple with sometimes and that final message of "it's okay, nothing matters" in the movie really reminds me that life doesn't have to feel suffocating to me and that (at least in my situation. Hearts out to y'all in a physically restraining situation) I'm simply letting it suffocate me.
Human nature definitely seems like we are inclined to search and make sense of the mysteries of life so the internet is a perfect place for finding the answers to those mysteries but it ultimately creates more rabbit holes for those universes of confusion of the reason why things are the way they are. I get easily overwhelmed with things so it probably isn't the best to use the internet too often without truly questioning what purpose is it serving me. The internet is definitely a tool that you need to learn how to control or it can control your desires and urges.
Inside and everything everywhere all at once are two of my favorite pieces of art in recent years. Kudos to you for correlating them in such a clever way. Sublime stuff.
The part about acknowledging all the different realities but still understanding that ultimately your own reality is what matters was a real throwback to the little price and the bush of roses
Brilliantly articulated and relevant interpretation of the film! Associating EEAAO with Bo Burnham’s Inside makes so much sense now that I think about it.
Loved loved loved this video. I never would have thought to make links between Everything Everywhere All At Once and the Internet but it makes so much sense. I think this movie resonated with so many people this year because it is so frantic and imaginative, and it leaves us with so many questions about our lives in the end. It made me laugh the hardest in a cinema in a long time and it was also so touching. It’s my favorite movie of the year. This essay was incredible and the addition of Bo Burnham’s Inside to the mix was absolutely perfect.
Me: this movie reminded me of my entire life, the choices I’ve made, the regrets, the heart breaks, the missed opportunities and the ones I took, made me feel at peace with where I am in life and pulled me out of my depression. Thomas: this reminded me of how I feel when I browse the internet
Even though I’m still a young teen, I’ve still felt the feeling of nothing mattered, and that the universe was just a black hole waiting for us all to die. This movie hit hard for me, seeing all of the family dynamics, the pain of joys mom not seeing her for who she is. The way that the directors were able to make so many people relate to this amazing movie is incredible.
I've seen many people's reactions and takes on this movie and so far you are the only one to notice Waymond's role and it's importance. Thank you for pointing it out.
I recommend checking out the video about Waymond by the channel Pop Culture Detective
You have perfectly articulated for me the culture of the internet growing today. What people call terminally online, the dangers of haveing it all at your fingertips. The growth of the blending of the online social life and social life in reality. Jobu Tupaki I think is ther perfect personification of a person that is terminally online, cynicism to the max.
This is the most insightful, relatable and necessary interpretation of this film I have seen so far. Ever since watching this film I have been unable to understand why it has such a profound effect on me, and I think you just put it into words. Thank you so much!
This video honestly made me cry a bit, mostly because you are the first person to articulate that feeling of overwhelm as well as you did. For me, I think that my sort of shift was the first lockdown with covid, the sudden shift of 'oh my god, everyone is dealing with this and living their own individual lives.' I'm really happy I found this video. Thank you so much.
Thomas, this was simply brilliant. You have a true gift for articulating complex ideas that we all humans share, especially through our artistic mediums. Thank you for this.
I consider this to be one of the most beautifully crafted and conveyed movies of all time. To fit so much into such a simple story complexion is seemingly easy but also impossibly difficult. To truly put it, this movie is Everything everywhere all at once and I will forever be grateful for the experience of a millennium. To those who may not have seen it or haven't watched it for all of it's glory, I must say it's not for everyone. But I garuntee it will leave everyone speechless by the time the credits role. Cheers Daniel's you guys have peaked modern filmmaking🙏🏽
💯 This film will be discussed and referenced for decades. It's quietly powerful, and I am amazed at how many people openly wept when watching it in theatres (and on reaction videos!) Part of that power is the ability to cut through our cynicism like butter - then hold a mirror up to our faces. I feel bad for people who didn't like/hated the movie - the ones who want the *incredible* experience many of us had, but I suspect that some people don't have the ability to confront that mirror...👏👏👀🪨
@@arcticgoddess exactly. They see all but they are deadly scared of, and refuse It.
I feel like such a kindred spirit with your writing. Every time I think of a topic or idea that's grabbing me for an essay I look and see you have a similar one. I'm glad there's someone to make me feel less alone in this worldview. Thanks for the work dude!
I am soo late to this but imo This movie actually depicted perfectly the depression and being lost feeling that i had. Joy not being understood until the end of the movie when her mom finally understands her and i broke down knowing that i never had that level of comfort and i never will from my mom. My mom who literally gave birth to my depression and loneliness from the beginning. And the scenes, the splitting frames, the mirror shattering was perfect. I have never felt this much emotion from any other movie ever since inside out. I watched this movie months ago and i still always break down whenever i think it. It felt chaotic and messy but its so fucking beautiful.
This is the best description of Everything Everywhere All At Once's tone. It's tonal whiplash definitely reflects internet culture
Check out the video by Like Stories of Old, it's an extremely good compliment to this video
@@IdealisticDog I did, great video, thanks anyway!
Just a small note: "Dall-E 2" is Open AI's image generator, not Google's. "Imagen" is the one by Google, and right, not avail for public.
This is possibly one of the best videos that I almost in a surreal way most resonate within the deepest parts of myself, it's beautiful! ❤️
You've literally placed the words and explained why, to everything that I've been feeling lately. It's no wonder that this movie resonated within me so heavily.
Adored this video. I've seen it a couple times, and saw this film through the lens of combating existentialism, but through the lens of the internet it takes a more visceral, grounded meaning. Fantastic job, man. Keep doing what you do!
It's so interesting how many lenses this movie can be viewed through :D
*combating nihilism
everyone interested in in-depth video essays on movies and cinema should be subscribed to this channel by now. One of the best creators in the genre atm. thx thomas!
This was a great essay, thank you so much. I had never looked at this film as an allegory for the internet before, but as soon as you mentioned it, it made so much sense. Just makes me love this special film even more!
This was so beautiful. Thank you for this. I've been in love with this movie since I first saw it, and I've been hesitant to watch/read much about it online, instead preferring to talk to people I know personally. Ironically, I think this helped me understand a bit about why. The movie is special to me and I didn't want every single possible opinion about it, I wanted to share the experience with a few select branches that would appreciate it the way I do. You gave me a little bit of new perspective here, and I appreciate that. 💙
I have never felt as many different emotions, all at the same time, as when I watched Everything Everywhere all at once. I usually dont cry or laugh out loud during a movie, this was one of the few exceptions. My face was already hurting halfway through from laughing so much and during the climax I was shaking with tears. I have NEVER experienced a movie like this. And I certainly didn't think it would hit AS hard as it did the first time. Waymonds way of fighting is still stuck in my head and reminded me of one of my favorite philosophies: Albert Camus' Absurdism. Because if nothing matters, you can decide for yourself what matters
“In another life I would’ve liked to do just laundry with you” destroyed me
This was the best thing I’ve seen on KZhead all year. Thank you for this.
Great video! That film spoke to me like no other piece had before, and your thoughts brought even more new meaning to my perspective.
thank you so much for this video! I've been struggling a lot with the pressure of thinking that everything needs to matter to me, and that I need to just consume consume consume all content related to anything I'm remotely interested in, scared that otherwise it would reflect badly on me if I hadn't consumed this or that piece of content. scared of others judgement and unstable self identity i guess haha. but it's been exhausting me and i've been feeling very overwhelmed. it's like you have to be 110% freaking out in excitement or breaking down in tears all the time because of something that's happening on the internet, and I don't know if it's sustainable to be going through such intense emotional whiplash 24/7. it's definitely fun to enjoy the content you consume, and i do feel the genuine excitement and sadness when things happen, but it takes up a lot of energy and on the internet theres no such thing as a break. but yes your analysis on EEAAO has been really really eye opening for me, i will take some of these lessons to heart, thank you!
You just boosted my appreciation for this movie. I loved the messages they were able to bring up in this movie.
What a brilliant analysis of this film. Puts so much into perspective and grounds all these feelings I’m having after just watching the movie. Thank you!
Great video essay, thanks for making it. Small correction: DALL-E 2 is by a company called OpenAI and is in limited invite-only beta access. Google’s recently-announced text-to-image AI model is called Imagen, and is currently unavailable to the public.
Hi, Andy! Thanks for the correction, you're totally right. (For some reason I keep thinking OpenAI is a Google project.) Longtime Waxy fan btw glad to have you here :)
@@ThomasFlight Oh wow, thanks so much! Love your channel! ❤️❤️
There’re so so much happening to me these last few years. I feel like I can see and feel it all at once. the coffee smell, Ai, wars, cars, the sound of pains, loves, hates, ants... it’s just too much and than I watched this movie last month when it came out and I think it kinda help me to calm for bit
This movie really spoke to me. As ive gotten older, ive been gradually introduced to more aspects of life and its quickly overwhelming my mind and emotions. So when i was watching this, towards the end when it all starts coming together, i began to cry uncontrollably, harder than i ever had at a movie. Genuinely a work of art and my favorite movie ive gotten to experience in theatres.
Dude what a fantastic video. I loved this film and felt intensely moved by its message, but I was just thinking about it as a metaphor for the nihilism vs. optimism battle that takes place in the mind of anyone who reads often about modern science, astronomy, and how insignificant we are in the grand scheme of the universe. I didn't even CLOCK this entire other parallel of the internet going on here too, though I think I related to it without quite knowing, just as I did with Bo Burnham's "Inside", same as you. What a wonderful exploration of the effects of unparalleled access to all knowledge and happenings on a person whose mind was only evolved to grasp a tiny fraction of it all. An exploration that is utterly untrodden until these last couple of years. Thanks for this video! A great expression of an angle of this film that I had no idea about!
This is one of your best videos, it goes beyond just film technique (which is always incredible!) and ventured into actual describing our modern experience. Thank you putting words to this film and connecting it to Our experience, I always enjoy revisiting it, it’s message, and its many meanings/applications!
Well, this is a therapy session that I didn't know I needed. Thank you.
You presented one of the most profound and unique views of the internet, as filtered through the astounding EEAAO, as I've encountered... and in an impressively understandable way. A sincere thanks.
I need an entire track of you being the internets door man. That was fire, Great video
All of the different things people have taken from this film are so interesting. Truly a masterpiece.
I can say seeing the major transformation of the internet as a super tech savvy guy myself born in 1998 I use the internet as a tool but am aware of how my peers are enveloped and overwhelmed by it. But going to many extremes and seeing how software and website codes work and going to the depths of tor browsers, anonymous social media and copycat websites, I respect the vastness of it and it’s calm. Know you’ll never be able to contemplate it fully but in the end it’s just a bunch of info stored on millions of computers all over the world that we made and built and now also got ai throwing their two cents into the mix.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a video essay perfectly capture the feelings and vibe exactly the same as the film which just so happens to be my favourite film of all time. I am truly amazed
I just discovered your channel. Thanks for this. This was the most interesting and in depth everything everywhere analysis I have seen so far. Keep ‘‘em coming!
This was a beautiful video about a fantastic movie. Thank you for putting words to how I felt about it so eloquently.
This is the video I've been needing for a while now. It's a scary subject matter... Great video, keep it up! Should I thank you or the internet for this video? 😅 PS. Even the shaving ad is tailored for my needs, as I was literally complaining about bad razors yesterday.
This video is just so beautiful. I keep coming back to it. It just resonates in my soul. This movies message is so important right now. And to be able to fully embrace that message this video helps immensely. Thank you so much for making this.
Finally. This is the review and analysis that I've been looking for.
Love your take on the internet and i do sometimes feels like it's too much than what we can handle and yep, it takes a strong individual to understand and step back.
Thank you for both commenting on this extremely important issue that impacts every person with a smart phone, and recommending this awesome movie!
Amazing film and I think this might be my favourite video of yours, the editing and direction as well as that intro. Great stuff!
wow... i usually watch a few video essays from time to time because i find it to be really enjoyable to see other people's perspectives on the films i liked, but this is just on a whole other level!!! the editing is amazing, you lay out everything perfectly from the content and what you're trying to say. this made me have a deeper appreciation of the movie and also contemplate with my life as i am like what you've mentioned "a child of the internet". so amazing, deffo one of my fav video essays now. thank you for such a great vid!! now i have to study for my math finals tomorrow
There's something about the transition from a conclusion about the realities of the attention economy into an add for a shaving subscription service that is more jarring than anything in Everything Everywhere All At Once
Yea, he should have text on screen as soon as it starts lol
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A stellar video! Curiously and ironically, I felt a slight relief that someone out there, in the swirling void of The Internet, has felt the same way about the movie and captured the same thoughts and fears that I had. Equally ironically, I know that I will give the video a like, leave a comment, and then scroll further without ever talking to this person with whom I felt this fleeting existential connection. Funny, that.
This film is an experience and a rollercoaster of emotion. It was beautifully put together.
It’s legit one of the best videos I’ve seen in years on this platform Even the razor advert at the end felt beautifully absurd
The more I reflect on EEAAO, the more I am sure that it is the best movie I've ever seen; I've thought about it everyday since I saw it over a month ago and you have just revealed to me yet another aspect of the film that I hadn't yet considered
What were your favorite films before seeing this? Because I can't for the life of me understand how this can be the best movie anyone's seen unless they don't watch a lot of movies.
@@N0va Probably virtue signalling since the cast is "diverse" Same reason why Parasite got praised to high heavens, to appear more "accepting"
@@nelisezpasce I could see that honestly. However I still think Parasite is a way better contribution to Cinema than this. I have a slight feeling most people won't remember EEAAO in a few years .
@@nelisezpasce or maybe they just like it? Not everything is about virtue signalling and diversity.
Some things are constants in the multiverse. There will always be an Evelyn and there will always be people seeking out youtube comments praising movies they don't understand so they can be killjoys
Great video! I'm grateful the movie wasn't more explicit about the connection to the internet. I connected on a very personal level with the movie through a different experience of my own, and don't think I would've if the movie had been a less veiled allegory.
THANK YOU for making this video. I watched the movie yesterday for the first time and left it feeling oddly reassured and I didn’t know why. I was grappling with figuring out how the multiverse worked but this breakdown really made the feeling I left with more tangible.
You are quite the wordsmith- this is a beautiful tribute to the art that came out of the pandemic. Glad I stumbled upon this...
The movie had a huge emotional impact on me. I know I like nihilism and existentialism, I know I like thinking about multiverses and infinite possibilities. It's like a cinematic version of Rick and Morty. But I hadn't connected it to Inside, or realized how the movie is really about living "on" the internet, and that really hits home. You make some great points and observations. I need to watch the movie, and this video, again. If I can just choose to ignore a few other things...
This was an amazing analysis, especially the parallels to bo burnham. I had chills sometimes. Thank you
This movie and your video was incredibly therapeutic for me. Iv been struggling the past 3 years almost like I was stuck in the mud, feeling like I was losing my sense of self. I could no longer picture myself getting old or achieving my dreams. For the first time in a while I finally feel like I have control again. Never has a movie made me feel so hopeful.
Thomas: I so appreciate your sharp and well constructed commentary. Keep going
It seems like you are talking about the internet rather than the actual moive
I’ve never cried so hard to a movie, then I laughed my ass off, then topped that first cry, then repeat, for this movie to be rated everything but a 20/10 is a crime. This movie is the movie of this Era, perfectly explaining why you should care if nothing matters. I, like many contemplated my existence, this movie didn’t make me understand it made me better understand how I want to live my life. I love our earth, even if it’s in the tiniest part of the universe, I love not what crime or sin that exist here, but the kindness it can cultivate. I fight like waymond(corny as taht sounds). I don’t need a meaning, I just wnat to love and be kind. As I love this earth, I love myself and strive to do better. This movie I love this movie. It represents mankind at its best
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Crying at a movie is so fucking pathetic. You think it's profound because it says "nothing matters"? Every edgy teen thinks this. You're like a teen thinking you connect so deeply with a stupid basic song. This has all been done before, like in hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy.
Loving and being kind IS the meaning your are searching for. The movie does not encourage the audience to feel that nothing matters.
Still an incredible video, Thomas. The last third is so, so impactful and accurate.
That was a very thought provoking analysis of a fascinating film I originally drew some different conclusions about. I'm another of those people who grew up with a very early internet, and this daily constant connection for me was so overt I didn't even originally consider it. Your analysis gives the film even more layers, I think I need to do watch it again now!
Interesting, I didn’t read the movie like that at all, I had a more emotional/existential feeling after I saw it, I had to watch it two times to really take it all in
everytime I think about this movie,i will remember how much fun and how much adrenaline rush I gotten from the creativity from this .thx for the good and interesting video.
What a phenomenal essay! I almost watched the movie so as to be able to indulge in the rabbit-hole of all essays it has inspired but this was something totally unexpected and so beautiful. The internet! Of course, it is about the internet! What a read! Love this kind of take where I am tempted to revisit the masterpiece and see what else I missed. Your channel is definitely in the little bucket of things I DO care about, amidst all the everything that's everywhere.
I’ve seen a lot of movies but this is the ONLY one that made me bawl like a baby
as someone who didnt understand the movie at first, this just blew my mind. it makes all the sense. so interesting and brilliant, both the movie and this vid :)
heavy man. time will tell eh? feeling this episode. bravo, another level of connection. thanks.
Thank you, for making quality content like this. Back in the days, you would have been considered as a philosopher.
Brilliant video, Thomas! It made me think about postmodernism, and how the internet is almost like a manifestation of postmodernism. And whereas before this idea was something that the older generations could voluntarily muse over (if they were even aware of it), the younger generations that have grown up with the internet are forced to engage with this postmodern relativism; and perhaps too early, before they've had a chance to even try and form a foundational narrative of their own. Like trying to build a house on sand.
kzhead.info/sun/aNx-mZypnmRsaZ8/bejne.html So glad he made this vid 😁👌
I think something that has changed my relationship with the internet in the last year is instead of saying "constantly online" saying "terminally online." Sobers you up a little bit.
Props dude this is the best video about this movie I have seen, you made me think and I learned things and you have original ideas, this is a good video.
Dear Thomas, thank you very much for this great Video!
I had never had a movie make me cry so hard before. I had to pause the movie because my sinuses clogged at the end. Even after watching it a second and third time, I still grew misty-eyed. There was something so earnest about this movie's take on nihilism. It always felt like movies dealing with it before were always so focused on the concept of "the infinite" that it became really easy to try and objectively take away what the movie wanted you to and leave it at that. This movie acknowledges all of that and still keeps love and heartache at the center of its message, and it's unreasonably effective at it too.