Is Everything Everywhere all at once a Murdock’s heroine's journey?
Lets walk through Murdock's heroine's journey diagram and see if we can apply any of it to everything everywhere all at once. Separation from the feminine: As we saw when we analyzed quicksand, we can see separation from the feminine as separation from the mother, which definitely applies to Everything Everywhere all at once. In a way, the defining struggle of the movie was the disconnect between Joy and her mother Evelyn. In the original universe, Joy and Evelyn fight over how to introduce Joy’s girlfriend to Eveyln’s dad. Underlying this, is Joy’s belief that her mom thinks she’s a screw up. Joy’s alpha-verse self, also known as Jobu Tupaki, expresses this belief in a scene where she tells her original universe Evelyn that when one puts everything on a bagel it becomes nothingness. In this metaphor, Evelyn’s expectations of Joy/Jobu are the “everything” being put on a bagel. This leads to the bagel, or Joy/Jobu, collapsing in on itself and turning into a quasi-black hole. Sep...