dba Freestar (“Freestar”) for the purposes of placing certain advertising on the site, and Freestar will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes. She also reminded the ladies in the audience not to let anyone ever tell them that they’re past their primes! Everything Everywhere All at Once didn’t just break that final barrier; it shattered it by also featuring the first Asian woman to win Best Actress. Given the complex nature of the cinematography (and the frequently chaotic nature of the imagery), the actual fine detail on display can vary somewhat from scene to scene, and even from shot to shot. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience.

When overwhelmed with more than we are really equipped to deal with, we are prone to ignore and neglect the more important aspects of our lives, overcome by anxiety to solve everything all at once, leading to a fractured sense of self and desiring to somewhere else, to be someone else. Evelyn is particularly worried about how her father (James Hong) will react, and isn’t willing to be honest with him about it.As any good Douglas Adams fan can tell you, improbability can be infinite, and untangling all of those improbabilities is what makes Everything so fun to watch, and even more fun to rewatch. With so many multiverse traveling options awaiting you, how you experience the breakthrough feature is entirely your choice.

The Music Visual is a sort of a music video for the song This Is a Life, featuring an appropriate backdrop.The contrast range is good, though the black levels aren’t the deepest in the low-light shots, but that appears to be how they were photographed. frame, either pillarboxed or letterboxed as needed, so that will cause issues for anyone using a Constant Image Height setup. The Academy may have been willing to finally grant a bit of respectability to genre efforts, but the voting members still weren’t willing to consider them to be “actor’s films. Those details are generally just a bit more refined than on the Blu-ray, but it’s often difficult to tell.

In centering their plot around the day in the life of a dissatisfied Evelyn, they balance several genres, wildly creative visuals and deeply complex ideas into a harmoniously poignant, heart-warming portrait of one person's existential crisis. Everything Everywhere All at Once provides that kind of representation for Asian audiences (and for Asian actors as well), but the remarkable thing is that it does so while also proving that diverse audiences can indeed identify with any character regardless of ethnicity, gender, or sexuality. It’s a worthwhile documentary that definitely proves that the film was a labor of love for everyone involved, even if a better title would have been Almost Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Everything Everywhere All at Once*(*But Were Afraid to Ask).

Yet it would still be a mistake to dismiss the significance of the levels of cultural representation in Everything Everywhere All at Once. Michelle Yeoh, Stephanie Hsu, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ke Huy Quan, James Hong, Tallie Medel, Jenny Slate, Harry Shum Jr. The English subtitles for the Mandarin and Cantonese dialogue are burned into the film itself, sometimes creatively so. Directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, collectively known as Daniels, the film is a hilarious and big-hearted sci-fi action adventure about an exhausted Chinese American woman (Michelle Yeoh) who can't seem to finish her taxes.

Although the bonus material could be a bit meatier, the overall package is nonetheless highly-recommended. Representation matters, but so does our own ability to identify with anyone regardless of any superficial differences. Stephanie Hsu was also nominated for Supporting Actress, losing to another actress from her own film. The triple-layered UHD100 disc sits comfortably opposite a Region A locked, BD50 disc inside a black, eco-vortex case with a glossy slipcover. Lionsgate’s 4K Ultra HD release of Everything Everywhere All at Once is a two-disc set that includes a Blu-ray with a 1080p copy of the film, as well as a slipcover that duplicates the artwork on the insert.They’re inevitably forced to jump from thought to thought while the film jumps from multiverse to multiverse, but it’s still a fascinating commentary track for anyone who wants to dig deeper into the thought processes of the Daniels, with all that entails. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used except with the prior written permission of The Digital Bits, Inc. An obsessive traveler, Britta loves long road trips to the South West and has a soft spot in her heart for canyons, rivers, and forests. Europe's busiest forums, with independent news and expert reviews, for TVs, Home Cinema, Hi-Fi, Movies, Gaming, Tech and more. The stylized cinematography also affects the palette a bit, mostly limited to earth tones, tans and warm yellows.