#evelyn wang
You want to know what would have happened? “What if”?
EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE (2022)
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I know you have a lot of things on your mind, but nothing could possibly matter more than thisconversation we’re having right now concerning the fate of every single world of our infinite multiverse!
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Of all the places I could be, why would I want to be here with you? Yes. You’re right. It doesn’t make sense!
Maybe it’s like you said. Maybe there is something out there, some new discovery that will make us feel like even smaller pieces of shit. Something that explains why you still went looking for me, through all of this noise. And why, no matter what, I still want to be here with you. I will always, alwayswant to be here with you.
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Sounds of laughter shades of life are ringing
Through my open ears inciting and inviting me
Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns
It calls me on and on across the universe
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Speaking of Everything Everywhere All At Once: I always think of how the Alpha!Wangs were under the impression that Jobu Tupaki had set out to destroy the whole multiverse, when she was really looking for an Evelyn who could understand her
Which is a lot like how some immigrant families catastrophize the moment their children become their own people. Some of us are made to feel that we will ruin EVERYTHING if we aren’t straight/don’t choose a “secure” career/don’t anything that’s supposed to align with our parents ideals. Many of us maintain relationships with our parents founded on unsaid and uncomfortable misunderstandings- and we yearn so badly for a situation where we don’t have to reach out across the gap.
So it means EVERYTHING that it is Evelyn that fights to connect with her daughter, rather than Joy having to clamor for her mother’s approval.
“I am your daughter. Your daughter is me. Every single version of Joy is Jobu Tupaki. You can’t separate us.”
I got to thinking about the heavy implications behind this assertion.
i’m not sure if anyone has pointed this out before, but the laundry and taxes line in eeaao actually translates more accurately to “if there is a next life, i would still choose to do taxes and open a laundromat with you” (instead of just “i would’ve really liked”), and the distinction is so important because it emphasises the gravity of the each minuscule choice we make, and how it is the significance of these choices that makes our seemingly insignificant lives have meaning. choosing to do laundry and taxes with her conveys a sense of certainty and assuredness that he would still actively make that decision in another life, as opposed to “i would’ve liked” which implies that he is merely a product of his circumstances with no agency over them instead of a result of his individual autonomy. it also reinforces waymond’s own philosophies about optimism as a choice we must constantly make and hold steadfast to despite despite despite. the act of choosing begets sacrifice, but choosing love, choosing kindness, choosing to believe that the darkness is transient and surmountable is the most important thing we could do in a world where succumbing to despair and hopelessness is so easy, and i think the way this film navigates this subject of choice is so beautiful
the skyline falls as i try to make sense of it all
i thought i’d uncovered your secrets
but turns out there’s more
you adored me before
oh my good looking boy
