How Everything Everywhere All At Once captures the zeitgeist

THE Oscars take place this weekend (Mar 12, 8 pm PCT) and here’s predicting that Everything Everywhere All At Once (EEAAO) will nab all the major awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor and Actress – with only the Best Actress category set to be a close fight between Michelle Yeoh and Cate Blanchett (for starring in that misguidedly anti-Asian film, Tar). 

Once the winners get on stage, they’re bound to talk about the triumph of Asian representation again, as they have been at every other award ceremony. But EEAAO is so very much more than the sum of its skin tones. It is, by dint of care and attention, one of the most culturally astute films in recent memory, addressing just about every single demand that the younger generation has been making of its entertainment.

When writer-directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert gave the film its broad all-encompassing title, they surely knew all the things that title would come to mean.