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Film · A24 · 2022

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Everything Everywhere All at Once

63Watch it awake.

The noise is enormous. The quiet claim is that a marriage and a daughter are the life, not the failure. Worth an evening.

The review

Evelyn is told that every other version of her became someone, and that this version, the one with the laundromat and the husband and the daughter who is hurting, is the waste. The film's good ending is that she chooses the waste. Kindness, in the last movement, is not a vibe. It is a decision to stop fighting the people in the room.

It is also exhausting on purpose, and the purpose is half a trick. Adults can take it. A teenager who already thinks ordinary life is the failure does not need two hours of multiverse before the correction. Tell them the correction first, in a kitchen.

Journal

Keep Everything Everywhere All at Once in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

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The glance

Piety and Republic and Temperance are the thin ones.

Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

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The eight

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Industry
Taxes, laundry, a small business. The work is not a metaphor. It is the plot.
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Household
A marriage that has gone dull and is not therefore false. A daughter who is not a disappointment.
4
Piety
No church. A kindness that functions as one, late, and without a creed.
7
Courage
She walks into the absurdity for her family, not for a crown.
4
Republic
The IRS is the state in the story, and it is a person at a desk, which is fair and small.
4
Temperance
The gag reel is an appetite. The film does eventually tell it to sit.
7
Truth
The lie is that a bigger life would have been the real one. She refuses the lie.
8
Stewardship
What she keeps is the ordinary life. That is the stewardship, and it is the point.

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Film · Prime Video · 2005

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

63Watch it awake.

The punishments are the old book. The factory is colder than the 1971 film. Read it that way.

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Charlie is still the child who has a family and almost nothing else, and the ticket is still a test the other children fail in public. Willy is stranger here, and the flashbacks make his oddness a wound rather than a mystery. That is a choice. It explains him. It also risks teaching that genius is a loneliness the world should indulge. The book did not ask for that much sympathy.

Watch it if the house already knows the story and can say which child is which. The gum, the television, the greed, the spoiled demanding: those four are the lesson, and they are still true. Do not come away wishing to live in the factory. Come away glad Charlie had a grandfather who would go with him and a family to bring the prize home to.

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