Everything Everywhere All at Once

Whenever I approach a film with an interesting, different concept, an inevitable anxiousness grips me for there is a fine line between originality and imaginative, crazy rubbish. I feel a great sense of dread in saying that I think Everything Everywhere All at Once falls into the latter category. There is no doubt that it is original, but there is also no doubt that it is perhaps the furthest we can stray from reality. My first misgivings about the film is with its philosophical meaning. The film explores nihilism and absurdism(that there is no meaning in life) by making it a character motivation(can we even call jobu Tupaki a human character?). It resolves everything neatly by arriving at the sagely solution that kindness and humanity is the way to go. The philosophy in this movie however appears overwrought and dumbed down. The themes of Nihilism and absurdism are never fully fleshed out - we do not closely see the life experiences or factors which motivated the characters to adopt this nihilistic attitude. In this respect the film lags behind other superior philosophy movies(namely The Truman Show or Groundhog day). While the first 40 minutes or so are agreeably fast paced and interesting, the film offers a sensory and factual overload afterwards that dulls its vigour by focusing a great deal on this philosophical theme, rather than continuing the enjoyable adventure mood. Everything everywhere all at once is convoluted, absurd, and intellectually astounding(in a negative sense). It seemed as if the film was hiding the poor logic and reason linking its various scenes behind the term "absurdist". Of course, I do realise my opinion run contrary to most of the general public and critic population, and I do not intend to pontificate my opinion, rather to record down what I felt of the film. Filmgoers should see this film because it's high ratings mean they are more likely to enjoy it than I did, but I must say, Everythign Everywhere all At Once is, in my opinion at least, a disappointing collection of preposterous situations bordering on claptrap.