And so it is done — congratulations to the Daniels’ Everything Everywhere All At Once, the silly little weird genre anarchy film that took the conventions of narrative filmmaking and blew them up, smashing a few glass ceilings in the process. Anyone with a camera can take a couple of weird videos together and call it a “genre anarchy” film, but it takes a real and rare kind of talent to do one that actually has a heart at its core.
Also: I also think it’s worthy of note that three years ago the first Asian film to win best picture, was with Parasite, a film that basically excelled at every filmmaking technique there was in the book and elevated them all to create a tour de force of a film; and now four years later for another Asian-led film that takes all those filmmaking conventions and blows them all up in cinema anarchy to win best picture again. Only brings to mind how Asian artistry and filmmaking really has always been excellent.
