"In another life, I would have really liked just doing laundry and taxes with you." Such a simple line, but it shows that CEO Waymond realises what he finds to be truly important in life... Namely, his Family and Loved Ones.

Waymond is first seen in the little mirror because he represents what’s missing from Jobu Tobaki’s universe; kindness and love. He is the bagel’s hole.

I can't believe this movie has its version of Ratatouille with a raccoon, a universe with hotdogs for fingers and Jamie Lee Curtis as a wrestler, and it actually works. It's brilliant.

From what I've heard, a team of 7 people did ALL of the effects, and in adobe premier pro. This movie is insane and completely shatters most modern cinema.

To clarify: Evelyn absolutely does become a nihilist at the end of the film, it’s just a positive nihilism to contrast Jobu’s negative nihilism. It’s a really great display of the duality of the entire philosophy.

Adding to the great line, “In another life, I would have really liked just doing laundry and taxes with you,” it eventually cuts to Waymond humming and sweeping the laundromat. Essentially, it confirms that he TRULY IS just happy doing laundry and taxes with Evelyn. So, so cool and beautifully executed.

Waymond's speech about him seeing the good in things being not naivete, but "strategic and necessary" and a survival tool made me feel so seen.
Incredible movie.

I lost it in the theater at the rock scene. Just started straight up weeping when Evelyn-Boulder followed Joy-Boulder down the cliff. My heart couldn't handle it.

So I have a friend who is almost physically incapable of shutting up during movies. It’s hard to watch anything with her, even though I know it’s not an act of malice where she wants to be annoying— she just always has a lot to say about every little thing and can’t help herself!

Anyway, one day I watched this movie, and of course I LOVED it. Some time later, me and the friend I mentioned were trying to figure out what to do while we were hanging out. So I said, “hey, we should watch EEAAO! I think you’ll really like it.”

She said “oh, yeah, sure, we can watch it again!”

To which I was like, “wait, what do you mean again?” And she responded, “I mean, I was there with you when we first watched it together, remember?”

And, yeah, that’s when I remembered that she was, indeed, sitting right next to me while we watched it that first time. That’s when it clicked for both of us: she was SO ENRAPTURED by the movie when we first watched it that she didn’t say a word the entire time, and I FORGOT SHE WAS THERE.

So yeah, TLDR, you know a movie is good when it manages to get your friend who never stops talking during movies to shut up and pay attention. As prestigious an award as “my dad watched the whole thing without falling asleep halfway through.”

The amount of heart in this film is crazy . The fact you can go to buttplugs and raccoons and a heartfelt performance in the span of 10 minutes makes it so one of a kind.

its wonderful how we go from "nothing matters, life sucks" to "nothing matters, so lets enjoy life". incredible

Stephanie Hsu was just amazing here, she sells both Jobu and Joy so well.

Her emotions feel so raw and real, and that whole final confrontation in the parking lot is just acting perfection from everyone involved.

Hsu manages to somehow mix "omnipotent chaos Goddess" with "scared depressed girl, who still needs her mom" in a believable way.

I was absolutely floored.

"All the power in the multiverse and Joy still wanted her mom" is such a great statement and I had never thought about it that way before. Started crying a bit when you said that lol

I luckily showed up to this movie knowing nothing about it. Never seen a trailer. Not a single spoiler. All I was recommended was to watch it because it was an a24 movie. I only wish that more people could experience it the way I did. Never has a movie impacted me so much. The undertones with struggling with suicidal tendencies, the struggle it is just to live every day. Just looking for someone to reach out too.
I even cried watching this video.

One of the best movies of all time

Waymond imploring everyone to just be kind FLOORS me every single time. Nothing so simple should pack such an emotional gut punch!

Legit not joking, I was trying to search for this a minute ago wondering why such a movie with a perfect title for your video has not been made yet. And it came out immediately. Dream come true

What always hits me is that Jobu falls into the begel, a representation of depressive nihilism, the despair event horizon,
Something you're not meant to be able to come back from,
After falling she reaches out and is pulled back from it. Anybody with serious depression can feel like they've fallen too far and that they can't recover but here we're shown that accepting the help others offer can pull you free from that place
Also something I've never seen mentioned: People point out how Evelyn placing the googly eye, the opposite of the begal, on her forehead is a sign of her enlightment of optimistic nihilism, and that all the followers of Jobu put the begel on their forehead, the begel being their enlightment. But Jobu's hair being the begel shows that the begel ISN'T her englightment, it's above her head not on it, and a sign that while she may talk about accepting the begel she actually hasn't, which is why she's looking for a version of Evelyn that can relate to her

The "laundry and taxes" line will, I think, go down as one of the best lines ever written and uttered in a movie. It is so simple and yet so profound and says everything about what true love is. The second I heard it I knew that was how I feel about my fiancee, and even before she got to see it, it was a line I quoted to her (without spoiling the context). When she finally saw the movie too, she understood immediately and it's since become a go to for us to express our love.

Another cool thing about the movie: Evelyn’s maiden name is Quan (全) which means “complete” or connotes the entire sum of the parts of a whole in Chinese.

I’m not kidding when I say this movie changed my life. My roommates and I have watched it as a group twice, and we literally all bawl during the last fifteen minutes. This movie is the most optimistic nihilism I have ever seen, and it makes me weep. This video has me weeping. If you haven’t seen this movie, please watch it, it’s WHY we make movies in the first place. It’s art.