One of the things I love most about @A24's @allatoncemovie is that it centers an older woman of colour and all the lives she could have had feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-me… #EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce
Michelle Yeoh is Evelyn, a Chinese-American woman, who is called on to jump between universes–”’verse jump” in the film’s vernacular–to accumulate skills from the alternative lives all the other Evelyns are living to save the multiverse from a “great evil”
White women are allowed sliding doors in mainstream films, e.g. Gwyneth Paltrow who was 26 years old when she starred in Sliding Doors in 1998. Michelle Yeoh is 59. To ponder “what if” and take stock of your life at 26 is not the same as when you are 59. #EverythingEverywhere
To see an Asian woman in her 50s ponder her other selves and the lives she could have had, is subversive. During a time when pandemic bigotry and violence in the U.S. is targeting Asians, especially women and elders, a film that centres an Asian woman in her 50s is subversive.
Once Evelyn gets a taste of options–the What If’s–available to her alter egos in other universes, we understand why women are denied a three-dimensional life, why their imagination is flattened out of daring to want any more than what they have.
#EverythingEverywhere
#EverythingEverywhere
Because we would want more, we would want different, and how would our universe handle that, huh?! feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-me… #EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce
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