So here's the thing,
About seven years ago, filmmaking duo the Daniels released their first film, Swiss Army Man. And there was a lot that I really liked in the film - it was a fascinating exploration of friendship, loneliness, love, and regret, anchored by a fantastic central performance by Daniel Radcliffe. But there was a lot in the film that I genuinely hated - after all, Daniel Radcliffe was playing a corpse that farts all the time and has an erection that works as a compass. The almost non-stop juvenile fascination with toilet humour made the film feel as though it was made by young teenagers rather than two adult men. So while there was a lot of potential in that film, if you had told me that the second film from that duo would be frontrunner for the Best Picture Oscar, I think my brain might have broken at that idea.
[Thoughts on Everything Everywhere All At Once, and all nine other Best Picture nominees - The Fabelmans, The Banshees of Inisherin, Top Gun: Maverick, Avatar: The Way of Water, Elvis, Triangle of Sadness, Tár, Women Talking, and All Quiet on the Western Front - after the jump]
