Thread by @monaeltahawy

Michelle Yeoh is brilliant. She long has been. She has deservedly been nominated for an Oscar for her role in #EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce

No Asian woman has won Best Actress Oscar. Ponder on that.

She is exquisitely brilliant in this film!
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How many films do you know that centre an Asian woman in her 50s?

As Michelle Yeoh puts it, “... an aging Asian immigrant woman. When was the last time you saw that, right?” npr.org/2022/04/08/109… #MichelleYeoh #EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce

Women of colour–older ones at that– are rarely allowed options and yet here is Evelyn with multiple universes, unbeknownst to anyone, including herself.

#EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce

White women are allowed sliding doors in mainstream films, wherein Gwyneth Paltrow can have one life if she gets on a London Underground train, and another if she stays on the platform. Gwyneth Paltrow was 26 years old when she starred in Sliding Doors in 1998.

Michelle Yeoh was 59 when #EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce came out.

To ponder “what if” and take stock of your life at 26 is not the same as when you are 59.

To see an Asian woman in her 50s ponder her other selves & lives she could've had, is subversive feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-me…

“I felt that this was such a perfect opportunity to give a voice to the v ordinary mothers & housewives who are out there, you know, doing the most mundane things & get so taken for granted...And then let her discover that, oh, my God, she is a superhero” npr.org/2022/04/08/109…

But 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
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Because we would want more, we would want different, and how would our universe handle that, huh?!

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Every time Evelyn sees her alternates in other universes and then beats the fuck out of someone in our universe, I feel vindicated.

#MichelleYeoh
#EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce

I know she’s doing it to save the multiverse from evil, but who wouldn’t want to beat the fuck out of everyone for all the lost opportunities and regrets that women are socialized into thinking are life?

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#EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce

And so I hope #MichelleYeoh wins an Oscar to remind us as she did at the #GoldenGlobes2023 "As time went by—I turned 60 last year—and I think all of you women understand this:As the days, years, numbers get bigger, the opportunities get smaller as well..."

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