I must be getting old. I was planning to go to the cinema today to see "The
Royal Hotel", but I changed my mind because it was too cold. That's the first
time the weather has ever kept me away from a film. I don't want to make a
habit of it. It's going to be shown again on Monday, so I have a second chance
to prove I'm not a wimp. Actually it's being shown every day, but most days
it's being shown dubbed into German. I have to wait until Monday to get
another chance to see it with the original English dialogue.
So I used my evening at home to watch "Everything everywhere all at once",
which I haven't watched for 18 months. It's an incredible film, one of my
top films of 2022. I put it in third place. Maybe it should have been first. If I get a chance
I'll watch all of the top three films to make up my mind. I shan't change the
list now, what's done is done. The only changes I ever make to old posts is to
correct spelling mistakes. But I'll tell you in a new post if I change my
mind.
One thing I can tell you is that it won the Oscar for Best Film last year,
along with six other Oscars. This amazed me, not because it's a great film,
but because the highbrow film critics agree that it's a great film. It's a
rarity for one of my favourite films to be showered with Oscars. It's also
unusual for a science fiction film to be picked as Best Film at the Academy
Awards. Has it ever happened before? Let me check. *long pause* Yes,
"The Shape of Water"
won the Best Film Oscar in 2017, but I think that it was the only other science fiction film
until now. Please leave a comment and let me know if I've missed anything.
I like "Everything everywhere all at once", but do I really understand it?
What I mean is, I can sit and describe the plot, but I don't know the
underlying meaning of the film. I don't know what the director is trying to
say. I need to look for a review by one of the highbrow critics that I'm
always criticising. One of them might have something valid to say. If I find
something that I agree with, I'll let you know in my next review. Until then,
I'll leave you with a few photos of the laundromat owner Evelyn Wang.
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