This baffling Oscar-winning movie gave me some surprising insights as a Christian parent
By
Ali Campbell2023-03-27T09:42:00
As a parent of two teenager daughters navigating school life, relationships, GCSEs and A Levels and University visits I’m often in a state of bewilderment about what is happening, where I am supposed to be and what I’m supposed to be doing?! Maybe you can relate?
At the centre of Everything, Everywhere is a relationship between a mother and daughter. In an adventure that seems to be a cross between The Matrix, Marvel’s “What If” series and Matt Haig’s novel, The Midnight Library. The main character, Evelyn, is trying to hold it together running a launderette, navigating life with a husband she doesn’t appear to respect or love and a daughter she is struggling to understand. Then, she is suddenly plunged in to multiple alternative worlds to the one we inhabit - one minute a master of kung fu, the next a chef, a singer, a cartoon character, a person with sausages for fingers … yes, sausages for fingers, oh and a rock. Life as a rock.