8: How Everything Everywhere All at Once Rejects Nihilism & Encourages Empathy and Kindness

Reese Grey Analyzes

Jul 24 2022 • 18 mins

I left the theater after seeing Everything Everywhere All at Once with the phrase “nothing matters” echoing in my brain— and I felt at peace about it.

Mundane and common issues such as taxes and laundry are brightened up by the movies sci-fi themes while diving head first into exploring a multiverse, which isn’t actually as fantastical as it seems. We all can’t help but entertain our imaginations and wonder “what if?”. It’s a cruel reality that we don’t get to choose where in the world we are born, what family we are born into, or what opportunities we are handed. But what we can choose, is how to play the divine cards that the world has dealt us. The film explores the idea that if we were given the opportunity to change our life’s path through the multiverse, would we truly choose to escape? Or would we instead be left with a greater appreciation of our present lives that we didn’t have before?

What We Discuss:
- Struggling with mental health issues due to generational trauma.
- Questioning the notion of nihilism. Does “nothing matter?”
- Is it possible to be optimistically nihilistic?
- How “Hard Truths” do more to harm than help.

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