Every Minute of Everything Everywhere All At Once19 Aug

Minute 101 - We Put A Couple Of Rocks On A Bagel!

Two rocks. One clifftop. No music, no voices, no movement — just white and black text appearing over them in a universe where life never formed. Joy tells Evelyn that most universes are like this, actually. Evelyn says it's nice. Then Joy starts talking about how we spent most of our history certain the Earth was the center of everything, torturing and killing people who said otherwise, until we found out we orbit one sun out of trillions.After the montage of sixty-nine universes nearly broke us last week, this minute is the movie building in its own intermission — and we are deeply grateful for it. We get into how the Daniels genuinely feared audiences would be bored here, shot backup time-lapse footage of the sun moving behind the rocks as insurance, then cut it for being too energetic. We talk about the missing punctuation in the text and why it makes the whole thing feel like texting rather than dialogue. Kynan reads from William Steig's Sylvester and the Magic Pebble — a children's book Daniel Kwan has confirmed as a direct reference, about a donkey who turns himself into a pink rock and then slowly stops trying to be anything else — which is a genuinely upsetting thing to encounter in a picture book. And we sit with Evelyn's apology, which arrives shockingly early, and what she might really be apologizing for.Also: Michelle Yeoh is the reason there are no voices in this scene. It was her idea. Rocks speaking English would violate the rules of the universe.

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Episoder(103)

Minute 100 - We Put The Ultimate Montage On A Bagel!

Thirty-eight seconds. Sixty-nine universes. Everything everywhere all at once.This is the montage. Evelyn screams and it ripples outward through the bubble map like a red nebula infecting every univer...

12 Aug 1h 25min

Minute 99 - We Put A Crash Out On A Bagel!

Foxy Waymond pushes Evelyn away, and the all-is-lost montage begins. Raccaccoonie is taken away in an animal control cage, hands fixed to the bars, as Chad screams and strains against the coworkers ho...

5 Aug 1h 8min

Minute 98 - We Put A Knife To The Heart On A Bagel!

Evelyn pulls Waymond close at the party while Deirdre's forty-eight hour eviction notice fades in and out of the background. Across universes at the same time: she rips the hat off Chad at the teppany...

29 Jul 54min

Minute 97 - We Put A Party Crasher On A Bagel!

Foxy Waymond gently pushes Evelyn's hands back down and says, if you don't mean it, please don't give me any false hope. Evelyn's laughter bleeds in from across the universe before we even cut. At Gon...

22 Jul 1h 11min

Minute 96 - We Put False Hope On A Bagel!

Foxy Waymond asks what if you had come with me all those years ago — and then we're at the New Year's party in full swing. Evelyn comes back to life in the Alpha Verse, stares at her hands, and the mu...

15 Jul 1h 1min

Minute 95 - We Put Gong Gong's Party On A Bagel!

The bagel pulses, and every version of Evelyn feels it at once. We watch them in rapid succession staring directly into the camera — from the IRS, from Hong Kong, from a robotics factory with a red ey...

8 Jul 1h 8min

Minute 94 - We Put The Sanctum Sanctorum On A Bagel!

Jobu finishes telling Evelyn that right is a tiny box invented by people who are afraid, and the film cuts to a memory: Joy introducing Becky to Gong Gong, the same scene from the start of the movie, ...

1 Jul 54min