Perspective: “Everything Everywhere All at Once” is a deeply Asian American film
This raucous romp of a movie offers a surprisingly profound meditation on what we might, at a time when our nation is facing various forms of racial reckoning, call it Asian-pessimism. Here, I’m playing off the school of thought known as, which holds that Black lives are endlessly inflected and informed by anti-Black animosity and experiences of pain and loss.
It’s not only that the multiverse acts as a metaphor for the immigrant Asian American experience, or a convenient parable for the dislocations and personality splits suffered by hyphenated citizens. It also becomes a rather heady vehicle for confronting and negotiating Asian-pessimism.
Joy/Joba brings with her the “everything bagel,” a consuming black ring and hole that that threatens to suck up everything and everyone into its void. It sums up the key insight of Asian-pessimism: that “nothing matters” in the face of pain and exclusion.
Yet the conclusion of “Everything Everywhere” suggests that the solution to Asian-pessimism is neither reactive violence nor exactly hope, but something in between. Despite the delicious pleasure of watching Yeoh revive her kick-ass “
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