Everything Everywhere All At Once is an A24 production, directed by Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, that is currently creating a stir around the globe. The film was released in theatres on March 25, 2022, in the United States and is currently heading to OTT and will be available to stream from June 7.
The movie revolves around the Wang family, but when an interdimensional rupture shatters reality, Evelyn Wang, an unlikely hero and our protagonist, must use her newfound abilities to battle strange and puzzling threats of the multiverse while the world’s fate hangs in the balance. The plot indeed is a lot to take in. In case you have watched the movie and are still confused about the climax, we have you covered! Read on to find out the explanation of the film’s ending and some more of our interpretations.
The Everything Bagel and The Power of Love
As Evelyn Wang (played by the brilliant Michelle Yeoh) understands verse jumping more and more, realizing that she needs to have the same powers as Jobu Tupaki if she wants to win the fight. However, once Evelyn gets those powers, it is revealed that Jobu had no intention of fighting her. Instead, Jobu was hoping that her mother would be able to find meaning in her life. Jobu believes that when you’re never in the moment for more than a few seconds at a time, nothing matters anymore. She put every bit of reality she could find on a bagel, creating a black hole-like object that she hopes can end her life and suffering.
At first, Evelyn agrees with Jobu that nothing matters in their current situation, but that’s not to say nothing matters at all. It means that nothing matters when one has the power to jump between realities. One of the central realities Evelyn continued to jump to was the one in which she became an international movie star and martial arts master. In this timeline, she never married Waymond, but he showed up at one of her movie premieres.
They end up talking outside, and Waymond tells her he’s not just an annoying idiot who gets in the way and can’t seem to do anything right. Waymond loves Evelyn, and it doesn’t matter to him what they’re doing as long as they do it together. He wants everyone to be happy; therefore, everything he does is for the same reason. This revelation causes Evelyn to realize that something does matter. Everyone has something that means the world to them. For her, it is her family.
Everything Everywhere All At Once – What Really Matters in The End
Instead of directly fighting off Jobu’s followers, Evelyn helps them find happiness. She also saves Jobu from the black hole bagel by causing her to realize that she loves her mother despite their differences. During this exchange, Evelyn tries to make things right by telling her father about Joy’s girlfriend, but it only causes Joy to lash out even more. They argue, and eventually, Joy comes to realize that family matters. Even though Joy fights with her parents and doesn’t feel she can live up to her mother’s expectations, her mother still loves her. This is why Jobu searched for her in every reality hoping she would have the answer she was looking for.
At a more macro level, the film tells us that every decision you make matters. Be it big or small, each decision you make impacts your life. The main version of Evelyn dropped almost all of her hobbies and was the biggest failure out of all the Evelyns, but it was those failures that allowed her to be the one to embody the knowledge and skills of every other Evelyn variant and stop Jobu. Without all these failures, she would not have been able to save the multiverse and her daughter. Therefore, everything we do, including our failures, matters.
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