Everything Everywhere All at Once ending explained

The multiverse escalates in the best film of 2022. Directed by the director duo Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, the sci-fi spectacle Everything Everywhere All at Once overwhelms with action goddess Michelle Yeoh, creative ideas, wacky alternative realities and emotional power at the same time – and was helped to do so won seven trophies at the 2023 Oscars.

At the end of almost two and a half hours of multi-sensory overload, Everything Everywhere All at Once leaves us exhausted. Are you still puzzling over the meaning of wobbly eyes and need the ending explained? Then we have a practical overview for you with the most important explanations. Warning, massive spoilers!

In this text you will find the following explanations:

The multiverse explained in Everything Everywhere All at Once

In Everything Everywhere All at Once, Chinese immigrant Evelyn (Michelle Yeoh) just before the collapse. Her laundromat is struggling, her husband Waymond (Ke Huy Quan) is already planning a divorce, her father is a stumbling block and then she has an appointment with the federal tax authorities. But in the end, it’s her difficult relationship with her lesbian daughter Joy (Stephanie Hsu) that gets her the whole multiverse gone haywire leaves.

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The Evelyn we meet at the beginning of the film is just one of an infinite number. In fact, she’s actually the lousiest version of herself in the entire multiverse. What is that exactly? Every decision we make creates a new reality. Infinites of these alternate universes exist in parallel. The main realities of the multiverse in the film are:

In order to save the multiverse from a great danger, Evelyn must use the technology of the Verse Jumpings retrieve the memories and, most importantly, abilities of their alternate selves. In order to do that, however, she has to create an overwhelming new stimulus before each jump – and that makes for some of the most outlandish and funniest scenes in the film.

Who is Jobu Tupaki?

The greatest threat to the multiverse is Jobu Tupaki. She is Joy from the Alpha Universe, who was used as a guinea pig by her mother, Evelyn. Joy had to jump through the multiverse so many times until her Mind shattered by ultimate sensory overload is.

She experiences all parallel existing universes at the same time and thereby gains god-like powers. Jobu Tupaki, however, realizes that his own Life in the chaos of infinite universes has no meaning has. She creates a black hole, the Everything Bagel, that could wipe out all life in the multiverse, including her own.

Everything Everywhere All at Once ending explained

There is only one way for Evelyn to stop Jobu (and really understand her daughter). She must experience everything herself, everywhere and at the same time. Evelyn must become as powerful as Jobu Tupaki and travels through the multiverse to combine as many abilities as possible. She also learns to show more compassion, understanding and love to those around her. In the end, Evelyn wins because she is her opponent not fought with violencebut puts them out of action with friendly gestures.

As the overpowering Multiverse Evelyn, she symbolically sticks herself before the final fight a googly eye on the forehead. Evelyn used to be annoyed that her husband stuck wobblers on everything to spread joy. Only at the end does she understand the meaning behind it. The wobbly eye or her third eye doesn’t just stand there symbolic of her new perspective and transformation into a kinder person. The eye (a white circle with a black interior) is the positive counterpart of Jobu’s everything bagel (a black ring with a white interior), which represents desolation and depression.

The struggle for the fate of the multiverse is not an epic battle, but boils down to a simple emotional conflict between mother and daughter at the end of the film. Suddenly, the multiverse and the apocalyptic bagel no longer matter. At the party in her laundromat, Evelyn learns that her worst reality is the only true one to accept reality. Evelyn no longer gets lost looking back at the different paths that her life could have taken, but now looks ahead.

Evelyn recognizes her love for her husband, finally dares to tell her father about her daughter’s homosexuality and even reconciles with her tax auditor. The important moment, however, is a conversation with her daughter Joy, who is overcome by the feeling that she cannot live up to her mother’s high expectations. In the end, mother and daughter take a step towards each other for the first time and the healing of the most important relationship in her life can start.

The meaning of Everything Everywhere All at Once (one of many)

Using the concept of the multiverse, the film shows us in a playful and very quirky way, what it feels like to live in today’s chaos. It’s about the Fomo era (Fear of missing out), in which we are overwhelmed and overwhelmed by the media day after day. We have Joy here as a representative. As the daughter of an immigrant, she is burdened with enormous expectations. She also belongs to a generation of young people to whom everything is available at all times and who be all at the same time can and want. This can be an opportunity or lead directly to a life crisis.

Thinking more generally, Everything Everywhere All at Once also tells of a universal and almost devastating view of our existence. In the context of the greater whole, the universe and even the multiverse, our lives are comparatively insignificant. To not in existential anxiety and depression to expire, Joy and Evelyn must have one meaning in a seemingly meaningless world find an emotional anchor that doesn’t let chaos wash them away. And in the end, it only takes one person who believes in you to give you exactly that purpose in life.

Of course, there are many other themes and possible interpretations. Everything Everywhere All at Once is a film that lives up to its title. He negotiates numerous topics (including the cycle of generational conflicts) and puts together a complex masterpiece that you new viewing angles every time disclosed.

Everything Everywhere All At Once: A multiverse smasher – not from Marvel

With Everything Everywhere All At Once, the directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert bring us one of the absolute cinema highlights of 2022. In the FILMSTARTS podcast Screen Love there is great enthusiasm – and the top rating is even pulled out!

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