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Genre: Film & Animation
Date of upload: Jul 5, 2022 ^^
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I love how the movie explores both types of nihilism. Jobu Tupaki represents negative nihilism: "nothing matters so why do anything or exist", whilst Evelyn represents positive nihilism: "nothing matters so why not choose what matters to you?".
I think it's important to realise that anyone can choose their own path in life, by making a choice you reduce the chaos of our modern world
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Itās weird. I never interpreted it as the internet when I was watching the movie, but I still reached the same conclusion. I thought that at first Evelyn was so wrapped up in what was immediately in front of her that she couldnāt appreciate anything, it was always just something to deal with and move on from. Nothing mattered except that one thing she was dealing with at that moment. Then jobu tobacky takes the opposite approach, seeing everything everywhere in the universe existing all at once, all mattering, and reaches the conclusion that if every little thing matters, then none of it does. Life is just a game of statistics, nothing more, and so whatās the point in anything if everything in existence is there by random chance. Evelyn sees this approach and is almost sucked in when she has that conversation with waymond when heās a businessman, and he tells her that he is a fighter by trying to just to be kind. This makes her realise that yes, nothing really matters, but that is alright because we are the ones who get to decide what actually matters to us. Nothing matters so we are free to do what we want and decide who we give our attention to
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While I agree that Everything Everywhere All At Once is about the internet and society's existential relationship with it, I also think that if you were to remove the filter of the internet from both the film and our experience, the story's meaning would be the same. This film isn't the first time I've seen the bagel with everything. It's a motif I've seen in other films (Annihilation comes to mind), as well as in my own psyche. For me personally, it reads as the end-result of over-analyzing the meaning/meaninglessness of existence. It's time and space forever getting lost up is own ass, only to be crapped out again. And as in EEAAO, Annihilation, and every other incarnation I've seen it in, both in philosophy, life, and art, it really just means stop overthinking things before you get lost, and get on with the here and now. At least, that's how I read it.
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Growing up in the internet has ingrained in me the love and desire to learn, but also a huge fear of the never-ending possibilities. Knowing that no matter what you do, you'll never be able to see it all (despite the internet literally allowing you to do exactly that) just horrifies me; the wasted potential scares me, so this video was exactly something I needed to hear today. Thank you so much.
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I read this generationally when facing the idea of choices; Evelyn is reflecting on the choices she has made and feels trapped by them, while Joy has so many choices ahead of her and feels overwhelmed by them. Their disconnect drives the generational conflict in their family and builds the tension in the plot perfectly, being resolved when they find some common understanding of each other in the present.
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i feel like its truly a testament to just how chronically online i am that i didnt even think the things that happened in the movie were THAT absurd and random while watching. like it wasnt until i finished it and went on to watch reaction and review videos and other content like these that it settled in that yea maybe some stuff were on the more unusual side. its genuinely crazy how desensitized ive become from basically living on the internet for years now that a lot of stuff doesnt faze me anymore
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I like how the movie's hypothesis for the technique to jump to other universes is doing something very unusual one would never do. I think this perfectly illustrate the ''magic happens outside of your comfort zone'' concept. Doing what we don't usually do can make us shift to another paradygm kind of thing.
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I never really noticed how much being raised on (by?) the internet has effected me until today. I feel like my 'clay pot' is leaking I suppose. I can barely shut my mind off to do something as simple as read a book or do my assignments, because I'm used to being so stimulated all the time. My mind is constantly racing with no breaks in between.
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This has been haunting me since I read "The Library of Babel" 30 years ago. If you have access to everything with no effort at all everything loses it's meaning. Even Heaven would relatively quickly turn into Hell, how many millennia would it take for us to fall into a state of catatonic ennui?
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I saw this movie 2 times in a week. Instantly became my favourite of all time.
My sister in law saw it, she said "it's good, but i don't understand whats fantastic about it"
After some talking i reallised that the movie hits harder when you identify with the themes...
If you really felt, in some point of your life, the existencialist void, the senseless of existence, and the urge to end it all just to get out of all that, then the movie will touch you right in the core.
So probably if you are still in your 20's and never had the experience of existencial void, then it's just a jackie chan styled comedy.
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I have never really been able to point out the right words to describe what feelings this movie gave me, and I really tried so hard since this movie is probably one of the fav of my life if not THE movie of my life.
But this video points out exactly the right words. I experienced exactly what is described :
- First, a fascination of the infinite possibilities discovered by growing with the Internet since my childhood
- Then, around 20 years old, an immense feeling of nothing matters that could give me an infinite energy of life or the total opposite, a strong depression and feeling of nothingness.
- Finally, it's been a year (I'm 25 now) that i'm doing an ultra focus on what is in front of me, on the reality I'm experiencing, and on what trully matters to ME. And it feels exactly like the end of the movie. Comforting, peaceful, not perfect or ideal but REAL and authentic.
And on top of that, I am still deeply fascinated by the infinite possibilities of life, that I'm still discovering through the internet. But this time, I just feel like I can pick one of those possibilities, one that would fit to who I am, and fully appreciate it without thinking about other possibilities. Until I feel like I want to explore another one, which I do without asking myself any question.
Chose your possibilities and the one that matters to you, appreciate the ones that life puts in front of you and the ones you did not chose.
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@ThomasFlight
1 year ago
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