‘Everything, Everywhere at Once’ ending explained: What you need to know

All everywhere at once it is said to be a big winner at the upcoming 2023 Academy Awards based on the multiverse drama’s performance at recent award shows such as the Critics’ Choice Awards. Movie stars michelle yes as Evelyn Wang, a Chinese-American mother running her own laundry business and must travel through time and space to save the multiverse. It’s an incredibly complex film from start to finish, with an ending that may have left many viewers baffled. Now, like the daniel kwan and Daniel ScheinertThe film he directed arrives at the Oscars with a total of 11 nominations, including Best Picture, hollywood life has the full breakdown of everything that happened at the end of All everywhere at once.

What happened at the end of “Everything, Everywhere at Once”?

In All everywhere at onceEvelyn gets a visit from her husband Waymond (Ke Huy Quan) from an alternate universe, known as the “Alfaverse”. She warns Evelyn that she must connect with versions of herself in the parallel universe to save the multiverse. While jumping through time and space, Evelyn meets her IRS inspector, Deidre (Jamie Lee Curtis), and realizes that the big bad in all of this is Jobu Tupaki, the Alphaverse version of his daughter Joy (Stephanie Hsu). Evelyn has a troubled relationship with her daughter, who is gay and doesn’t feel accepted by the family. Evelyn also deals with major marital problems with Waymond, who wants a divorce.

Evelyn then discovers that Jobu Tupaki wants to destroy the multiverse and created a black hole “Everything Bagel” to do so. Jobu almost recruits Evelyn to her cause, until one of Waymond’s alternate versions convinces her that she can win with kindness and love. This inspires Evelyn to use what she learned from the multiverse jump to figure out what she is hurting those around her and help them. Upon reaching her daughter, Evelyn and Joy have an emotional conversation in which they reconcile, and Evelyn tells Joy that he will always want to be with her.

With Evelyn and Joy’s relationship healed, their normal lives are restored and the battle of the multiverse is finally over. Evelyn and Waymond reconcile their marriage, and the close-knit family is ready to deal with their IRS issues. Also, Evelyn finally introduces Joy’s girlfriend Becky (Tallie Mandellisten) to his father Gong Gong (james hong), showing that he truly accepts Joy. In the final scene, Evelyn and her family are talking to the IRS, when she is briefly attracted to her alternate selves from the multiverse, but she remains in her own body in her home universe.

What’s the message behind the ending of “Everything, Everywhere at Once”?

complex like All everywhere at once yes, the main message behind the film is really about the emotional bonds between family. In the end, it’s love, kindness, and acceptance that help Evelyn reconcile with her family, saving the multiverse from destruction. In an interview with Radio Timesdirectors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert explained that the bonds between the characters are the most important aspect of the film.

“The viewer wants to be in control and feel smarter than the movie. And this movie was made to reconfigure all of those things, and basically, as an audience member, you have to completely let yourself go and get carried away with the movie, or you’re going to have a very unpleasant ride a lot of the time. the film. if you’re trying to process it all,” Kwan said. “And I think for people who don’t like this movie, most of the time it’s because they’ve never been able to fully let go.”

Scheinert added, “I think it was a lot of fun. Once we started showing people rough cuts, they said at some point they had to give up logic and get carried away with emotion. And so the question became, at what point do we want them to do that? Because you don’t want them to give up too soon. But it’s such an exciting thing to do for an audience when that’s not the norm, when the norm is just the opposite.”

In an interview with the edge, the Daniels explained how their film is a story about “generational love.” Scheinert said, “We tried to create an empathic story about how difficult it is for our parents’ generation to understand our generation. We try not to oversimplify this idea, making an ode to how beautiful it is when someone who has grown up in a completely different way takes the courageous journey of trying to understand and support someone so different than themselves.

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