... as a Chinese person living in Australia with my laundromat owning mother...
Is this what white guys feel when they see a Ryan Gosling film? It just, idk, spoke to me. Having a gen X Chinese immigrant parent who does invoices in the living room coffee table... Helping translate for them since I was a kid...
Not telling my family about seeing a white girl because my grandmother always wanted me to find a nice Chinese spouse...
The film has a je nais se quois that made me simultaneously nostalgic and... Sad? Idk.
If you’re Asian and first or second generation in an Anglo sphere nation, this movie hits a lot different.
Edit: plus if you’re queer as well.
overrated
I've never heard anyone talk about this movie outside of the internet
Box office $108 million
lol
It had a lot of interesting Chinese-American culture aspects. I also think there are a lot of different ways to interpret the plot.
I liked Everything Everywhere All at Once a lot.
The derision seems to be along shallow comparisons to Rick and Morty or Marvel.
In reality, the strongest parallel in recent media is to Matt Hardy's "Broken" gimmick . But even that isn't quite right.
I really don't see the paralell to Matt Hardy's broken gimmick. The closest paralell is Dr Strange.
I only saw the first Dr. Strange movie. Haven't seen any other movies he's in or read the comics. So I can't comment on that specific Marvel character.
As for Broken Matt, I'm kinda making a joke, but I think there are parallels:
- Absurdism thematically/aesthetically.
- Matt can tap into other versions of people, as seen in the clip above. This is similar to Evelyn's ability in the film or what alphaverse people do etc.
- Following off of the above, Matt refers to body's merely as "vessels" which hold a spirit. This is arguably how body's are treated in EEAAO.
- Matt is broken. His mind has been shattered by the mystical knowledge he's acquired causing him to act in strange ways and giving him his powers. This is similar to Joy who was broken through transcendental knowledge to become Jobu Tapaki. Just as she tries to break Evelyn in the film to make Evelyn the same as her, Matt tries to break his brother, Jeff Hardy. Unlike Jobu Tapaki, Matt succeeds reforging Jeff as Brother Nero.
- Theme around family. Matt's feud with Jeff in the first arc of the Broken Saga focuses around their strained family dynamic. After Matt breaks Jeff, one focus of the new arc is around the weird family Matt Hardy has around him at the Hardy compound.
- The Hardy Compound fills a similar role to the laundromat. This is where Matt confronts Jeff in the final deletion, where they have their biggest confrontation with Decay and where Matt and Jeff make amends. Similarly the laundromat is where Evelyn and Joy first come into conflict during the film, where the final showdown with the IRS occurs, and where Evelyn and Joy come to ultimate amends.
Maybe I'll write more at some point fleshing these ideas out.
it always weirds me out that people actually care about the oscars
IMO, this year's Oscars was inoffensive. Normally that wouldn't be an accomplishment, but the last couple years have been :yikes:
i watched it on a flight. it was good! way better than keanu reeve's dracula accent anyway.
I fucking loved it. Watched it again last night at the cinema with some friends and it was just as fun and emotional as the first time.
I don't understand why people loved Barbarian so much. That one confuses me.
I don’t understand why people loved Barbarian so much. That one confuses me.
Because it's a fun film. It doesn't pretend to be anything groundbreaking but it still kept me on the edge of the seat the whole time because I wasn't expecting half of the shit that happened in the film. It's just a well done horror flick.
Barbarian is fantastic. Good horror is a metaphor - and barbarian is all about (not) listening to women. It's fun, ridiculous, but ultimately a comment on male hubris.
I thought the fight choreography was really well done and refreshing change of pace in a movie landscape where marvel shit is considered 'good'.
Otherwise the message was confused and meh, but the sheer number of styles on display was great. It's like watching Amazing World of Gumball, or Smiling Friends. The message is meh, but the demonstrable dedication to variety and craft is unassailable and I will take that over boring garbage with a meh message any day of the week.
I haven't seen any of the nominees for best picture in like five years :mario:
