![]() (See also: Pixar’s Turning Red, Encanto, and The Mitchells vs. Maybe.Įverything Everywhere All at Once, explained by a quantum physicistĮverything Everywhere falls into a suddenly popular subgenre of film I call the “millennial parental apology fantasy,” alongside a host of other movies, most of them animated. As such, Jobu meeting protagonist Evelyn will hopefully allow both to find some way to move forward together and forget the past. Yet these are offenses, the film argues, that could be overcome with a sincere apology and attempt to do better. She’s way too critical, and she’s deeply uncomfortable with Joy’s long-term relationship with another woman. She isn’t abusive to her Joy, but she isn’t a good mom by any means. The movie takes place across many, many universes, however, and our protagonist and point-of-view character is a different Evelyn, one who isn’t a brilliant scientist but, instead, a frustrated Chinese immigrant who owns a laundromat in the Los Angeles area and is facing a tax audit. Turning your child into a science experiment to further your own ambitions is a deeply, horrifically abusive thing to do, and Jobu’s spreading of that pain outward from herself is an evocative depiction of how cycles of abuse perpetuate themselves. It’s a metaphor for parental abuse that isn’t even a metaphor. Jobu used to be from a place the film refers to as the “Alpha Universe.” She was a girl named Joy (or, in the film’s parlance, “Alpha Joy”), and her mother, Alpha Evelyn (Michelle Yeoh), broke Alpha Joy’s brain in pursuit of the endless possibilities inherent in the multiverse. The other characters within the film wonder what Jobu (played wonderfully by Stephanie Hsu) is searching for, but the answer will likely suggest itself to the audience from the moment we hear the character’s origin story. ![]() ![]() ![]() Unimpressed with what she’s seen, she has constructed an enormous bagel that is seemingly capable of destroying everything, everywhere, all at once. Jobu Tupaki, the main villain of the film Everything Everywhere All at Once, has seen the vast and infinite multiverse. 022016PBHHA Everything, Everything /channels/1258574- 022016YZCOE Everything, Everything (2017) /channels/1258574- 022016LVGOZ Streaming Everything, Everything vimeo.Spoilers for Everything Everywhere All at Once follow. ![]()
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