Michelle Yeoh In Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022) Dir. Daniel Scheinert, Daniel Kwan

Michelle Yeoh in Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) dir. Daniel Scheinert, Daniel Kwan

ANTHONY BRIDGERTON and KATE SHARMA in BRIDGERTON 2.07 “Harmony”

Stills from Harper's Bazaar clip for the 50th anniversary of Polo Shirt by Ralph Lauren

May 2022

imo the multiverse in EEAAO is such a perfect metaphor for some very specific types of asian american immigrant trauma that hit so close to home… on the one hand, evelyn is leaping into all these universes, even the absurd ones, and thinking… these are all people i could have been, lives i could have lived, i could have Been Someone but instead i’m only just evelyn. she’s an exceptional person with so many talents and passions back home, and then she came over to the states to be taken for granted and cut down by everyone around her into a stereotype and a nobody. but even as the film is recognizing all the abandoned dreams of immigrant mothers, at the same time, for Jobu tupaki, each universe isn’t something new she could have been, it’s something she HAD to be, even if she didn’t want to. her mother pushed her past her limit and she was forced to be every single version of herself at the same time… people she didn’t want to be, things she’s not cut out for, to the point where she wants to blow it all up and be nothing at all. it really nails imo a pretty common 2nd gen experience of feeling like you have to be perfect at everything and live out all your parents dreams for them for so long that eventually you snap and look back on everything you used to be and think… that was fucking bullshit. that was pointless, none of this fucking matters. and then the only thing that can save you from the nihilism is your mother telling you “all those absurd things you used to be don’t matter to me, all i need you to be is you” 

DANIELS!!!!!!! (X)

it’s a very serious accomplishment, professor