Oscars winning movie 'Everything Everywhere All At Once' addresses several mental health intricacies through a multiverse ride

"Everything Everywhere All at Once" bagged seven awards at the 95th Academy Awards this year. It won the award for the best picture along with awards for actors Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan and Jamie Lee Curtis.

Malaysian actor Michelle Yeoh created history by clinching the Oscar for best actress for portraying the role of Evelyn Wang in Everything Everywhere All at Once. Not only did she become the first Asian to win the Oscar, she became the first Malaysian and second woman of color to achieve this extraordinary feat.

Everything Everywhere All at Once is a multiverse ride that naturally talks about mental health. From ADHD to depression, the movie shows mental health complications through a very different and most probably first of its kind multiverse ride.

The movie talks about generation gaps that build generational trauma.

"Writing "Everything Everywhere All at Once" was a foolish prayer to a cold, indifferent universe. It was a dream about reconciling all of the contradictions, making sense of the largest questions, and imbuing meaning onto the dumbest, most profane parts of humanity. We wanted to stretch ourselves in every direction to bridge the generational gap that often crumbles into generational trauma. It was an attempt to create the narrative equivalent of the Theory of Everything. A Big Data approach to myth-making. A post-genre deconstruction of traditional narrative. A maximalist's manifesto for surviving in the noise of modern life. And holy shit, these two clowns named Daniel were not up for the challenge," Daneil Kwan tweeted in April, after the release of the movie.

"If you aren’t aware, Evelyn, the main character, has undiagnosed ADHD..."

A Medium user writes, "this movie, obviously, when you look at it now, was made by someone with ADHD."

Sally Turbitt writes both the times she watched the movie twice. "Both times I was glued to my cinema seat, crying and full of jangly feelings — seeing my ADHD brain and aspects of my life — my experiences and feelings of failure, self-realisation and family, playing out in glorious, riotous colours and sounds on the screen," writes Sally.

Sally has combined inattentive and hyperactive ADHD. "Since diagnosis, my understanding of myself has increased hugely, but so have the enormous, overwhelming feelings I’ve lived with my entire life. And this film has helped me crystallise those feelings, and knowledge into something that I am able to articulate," she writes.

The story of Evelyn Wang, Waymond and their daughter Joy revolves around the chaos of life pulling each of the characters in multiple directions all at once; hence the depiction of the multiverse.

While we all have seen multiverse movies, Everything Everywhere All at Once depicts the intricacies of individualism, existentialism, chaos and absurdity perfectly.

"Daneil Kwan wrote several children’s books while plotting Everything Everywhere All at Once to give his brain a break from the script, a coping method that he says helps him with his ADHD," the Vanity Fair reported.

"I try to stick to one thing. It’s not how—I have ADHD and this is not how it works. These children’s books I came out with [are due to] the fact that it was taking so long to write this movie. This movie was such a massive impossible puzzle that I felt like I was drowning a lot of times and so I would just write children's books on the side for fun. I didn’t actually know they would get made but I thought like one day, one day when I retire, I’ll be able to make these. So I’m gonna retire!," he told the media.

Everything Everywhere All at Once is a glorious Rorschach Test, writes one Quora user.

"When I saw the movie, this is how I summarized it: “A gay daughter, tormented for her sexuality, is looking to make peace with her conservative mother before she commits suicide.” For me, the bagel was a path to total destruction so she could end her torment," the user writes in a post.

"My (Asian, cuz it matters) friend summarized it like this: “It’s a story about a struggling family that cannot reconcile their old ways with new ways. An Asian man cannot overcome his wife’s stoic nature but finally wins her over in the end.” For him, the bagel was an analogy of how nothing having a cosmic purpose doesn’t mean that things cannot matter to us," the post adds.

"It has layers and it has a kaleidoscope of different perspectives on what the story was really about. As a gay man estranged from his conservative family, I saw the suicide story. My Asian friend saw the struggle to bridge his Americanness with his parents’ Chineseness," the post, which has more than 31k views so far, concludes.

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