Sometimes, there are no answers to life's biggest questions. While the long hours of light and warmth of summer bring most of us out of our seasonal pondering of life’s biggest questions, I have found myself treading in those existential waters after watching Everything Everywhere All at Once. While Everything Everywhere focuses on the meaning of life through a flamboyant visual and audio style, most existential films tend to focus on the silence that comes with the question, “What does it all mean?” Existentialism in film is cinema at its mightiest and holiest. It breaks down one of the most fundamental questions of life that are uniquely human. These films are typically quiet and introspective as the characters are faced with problems that have no solution. Filmmakers lean toward the parts of human life that are profound and find ways to bring them life. Existential films usually connect to the church and religion to bring to life the feeling of emptiness and lack of meaning, and they attempt to explain that sometimes there is nothing we can do but accept things as they are. Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Tuesday, 14 June, 2022