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“Everything everywhere at the same time” won almost all the major Oscars in the early hours of this Sunday. He was a candidate for 11 statuettes. It won Best Picture, Direction, Actress, Original Screenplay, Editing, Supporting Actress, and Supporting Actor. How did a movie about a woman between parallel universes that includes sausage-fingered hands, a dry cleaner, and lots of kung fu become a favorite this awards season and get Hollywood talking about empathy and representation?
The Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert film, known as “Daniels,” would not be an obvious candidate to curry favor with the Academy. The story is that of Evelyn Wang, a Chinese immigrant to the United States, the matriarch in charge of a laundry, who needs to pay her taxes -and, incidentally, organize a Chinese New Year party- when she finds herself dragged into the mission to save the world. Evelyn has to learn to jump between universes to access different versions of herself to carry out said mission. Each “leap” brings a new universe and with it a new layer of references that have delighted moviegoers around the world. There is the melancholy and romanticism of Wong Kar Wai’s cinema, the culinary frenzy of “Ratatouille”, the futurism of Stanley Kubrick, martial arts films, kung-fu.
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Source: Observadora
