Movies, Multiverse, and Meta Thoughts

Last night, my boyfriend and I watched Everything Everywhere All at Once for the first time. After it swept the Oscars, it only felt appropriate to make it our weekly watch.

The film was, of course, incredible. It was a little more fantastical than I was expecting, but I loved it. The vibes reminded us of Scott Pilgrim Rules the World and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It was creative, thoughtful, and drove some interesting conversations about the multiverse.

As an acting major, I spent a great part of my education studying the human condition. Why do humans act the way we do? What drives people to make specific choices, enough to write an entire work of film or theatre about it? Analyzing Greek theatre, the works of William Shakespeare, to Tennessee Williams, to Jeremy O. Harris, introduced me to a broad world of specific characters, each with a unique coloring that shades the way in which they view the world. Our pasts, our relationships, and our innate & developed sense of self embellish the beautiful, complex, people we are. Then the actions the playwright creates illustrates the framework of that character. And the little nuances of a character are, in great part, the responsibility of the actor to bring to life.

One of my acting professors took a liking to me because of our conversations about quantum physics. We talked about how as actors, and people, we make choices that inform the new pathways of possibilities in our lives. Of course this is such a grand concept, it's hard to articulate in just one blog post-- there is simply too much extraordinary that exists in our universe (and the infinite others). Hell, a whole Oscar-winning moving was made about it, and I'm sitting here still thinking about it!

All to say, I've been experiencing some serious introspection the last 20 or so hours since watching the film. I find it magical the way things happen, both challenges and successes, and the way they lead us to unexplainable outcomes or relationships. Connecting this all to the yogi in me, it is reassuring to know that there's a decisiveness to everything that happens in life. Even while some hardships don't make sense, are cruel and unfair, or sometimes downright stupid, I sense a greater, perhaps more divine, purpose for the way things happen. We are here, right now. If we think about all the little decisions we make in life, year to year, day to day, and moment to moment-- it almost makes everything feel like a little miracle. And what a special way to see life that is!