Everything Everywhere All At Once was about appreciating what you have in life and the people around you and not giving into hopelessness because you can’t attain some romanticized perfect life. It’s not about ignoring the horrible things going on in the world for the sake of your own peace of mind.
She was obsessed with trying to pursue all these different skills and obsessed over all of the opportunities she made throughout her life and what she lost by not making certain choices. She overloads her daughter by trying to make her “everything” which drives her into a pit of nihilism and drives them apart. She only saves the day by realizing that she would have missed out on just as much that is good in her life by making other choices and by giving up trying to be “everything” to just love and accept her daughter–and by extension her life.
The message was essentially to appreciate the choices you’ve made and how they shaped the life you live, to appreciate the people around you, and to not obsess over missed opportunities and the pursuit of an impossible “perfect.”
Everything Everywhere All At Once was about appreciating what you have in life and the people around you and not giving into hopelessness because you can’t attain some romanticized perfect life. It’s not about ignoring the horrible things going on in the world for the sake of your own peace of mind.
My take from it is that any life can be enjoyable. Joyce was the doomer who just brought everyone down around her.
She was obsessed with trying to pursue all these different skills and obsessed over all of the opportunities she made throughout her life and what she lost by not making certain choices. She overloads her daughter by trying to make her “everything” which drives her into a pit of nihilism and drives them apart. She only saves the day by realizing that she would have missed out on just as much that is good in her life by making other choices and by giving up trying to be “everything” to just love and accept her daughter–and by extension her life.
The message was essentially to appreciate the choices you’ve made and how they shaped the life you live, to appreciate the people around you, and to not obsess over missed opportunities and the pursuit of an impossible “perfect.”