Everything Everywhere All At Once with Paul McDonald and Will Branner
Coming up on the Men at the Movies podcast, I sit down with Will Branner to discuss the movie Everything Everywhere All at Once. Great stories have layers of complexities, and are new each time we watch it. We explore the power of language, and the danger of miscommunication. We can use kindness and love as powerful catalysts to solve the dilemmas we face. Get ready to get sucked into a bagel, and lets discover God’s truth in this movie.
Quotes
Great stories have layers of complexities.
Kindness is the catalyst that solves the dilemma of the film.
I wonder how many of us are unable to progress to the next level because we are holding on to the past, to looking good.
You never know when your best work is going to happen.
There are no small parts, just small actors.
Don’t be scared to look ugly, to make a mess.
In a world where nothing matters, my decisions and choices become the utmost importance and we die under the weight.
All that matters is togetherness, love, connection.
Themes
Mother/daughter relationships-the joy and pain of the relationship is reflected
Language is very important. When you can’t speak your ideas clearly, you remain divided.
People who are in pain, but missed by those closest to him.
We don’t really see the people around us.
Embrace who you are, not try to become who you aren’t.
Giving up who we used to be (or want to be) in order to become who we are. Taking care of our side of the street.
When we trust the one who is leading us, nothing really matters and we are free.
Kindness as a powerful weapon.
Resources
Team StarKid YouTube channel: @starkid
Dawg Paw Productions
Amazon: Dawg Paw Shorts Vol. 1
Will Branner IG: @lordbranner
Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey
“Now I have had most of the life I am going to have, and I can see what it has been. I can remember those early years when it seemed to me I was completely adrift, and times when, looking back at earlier times, it seemed I had been wandering in the dark woods of error. But now it looks to me as though I was following a path that was laid out for me, unbroken, and maybe even as straight as possible, from one end to the other, and I have this feeling, which never leaves me anymore, that I have been led.” - from Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry
“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go to that, because what the world needs is peopel who have come alive.” - Howard Thurman
“Sometimes to find the light, we must first touch the darkness.” - from The Rings of Power
“By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” - John 13:35 (NIV)
Questions
When have you struggled to make your ideas, thoughts, or feelings clear to another person? How did that feel? How did you overcome the miscommunication?
How is being a parent both joy and pain? Spouse? Child? Friend?
Where do you find yourself trying to be who you once were? How does it feel when you can no longer be that person?
If you are being led throughout your life, how would your perspective change?
What would it look like to fight with love and kindness?
How have you learned to fight? How does the world teach us to fight? How does Jesus?
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Audio quotes performed by Britt Mooney, Paul McDonald, and Tim Willard, taken from Epic (written by John Eldredge) and Song of Albion (written by Stephen Lawhead).
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