Episode 42: ADHD is being Everything Everywhere All At Once (with Jordan Bastian)

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Jordan Bastian, film and artistic genius, joins Steph as we tackle the chaotic wonder that is Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022), by eccentrically amazing duo Daniels. Does the film not just depict undiagnosed adult ADHD, but embody what it’s like to live with it? Does it hold up as an indie form of the wave of immigrant American intergenerational trauma films (e.g. Turning Red)? And is it okay to laugh at Hot Dog fingers?

 

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CW: Trauma, intergenerational trauma, body shaming, brief mention of suicide.

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REFERENCES:

• How ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ Helps to Heal Generational Trauma - The New York Times (nytimes.com)
• Everything Everywhere All at Once review – nothing nowhere over a long period of time | Film | The Guardian
• Everything Everywhere All At Once Ending Explained (collider.com)
• ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ Review: It’s Messy, and Glorious - The New York Times (nytimes.com)
• Everything Everywhere All At Once Movie Review: If Insanity Was An Insanely Beautiful Film; The Real Multiverse Of Madness (koimoi.com)
• Everything Everywhere All At Once's Real Meaning Explained (screenrant.com)
• The Essential Explanation of EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE - Colossus (filmcolossus.com)
• Everything Everywhere: What Does the Everything Bagel Mean? | Den of Geek
• Everything Everywhere All At Once review: Multiverse sci-fi adventure | New Scientist
• The Daniels on the ADHD theory of "Everything Everywhere All at Once," paper cuts and butts | Salon.com
• Everything Everywhere All At Once Takes Viewers on a Journey Inside the Multiverses of a Neurodivergent Mind - Respect Ability
• I am everything, everywhere, all at once | by Sally Turbitt | Medium
• Everything Everywhere All At Once: An Interview With Directing Duo Daniels : Short Wave : NPR
• Reel Thoughts: On feeling nothing after watching ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ and performative representation Reel Thoughts: Good acting can’t fix ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once' (dailynorthwestern.com)

 

NOTE: This podcast is not designed to be therapeutic, prescriptive or constitute a formal diagnosis for any listener, nor the characters discussed. The host is not representative of all psychologists and opinions stated are her own personal opinion, based on her own learnings and training (and minimal lived experience). Host and co-hosts do not have the final say and can only comment based on their own perspectives, so please let us know if you dispute any of these opinions – we are keen for feedback!

 

Music Michael Watson

Artwork: Bronte Poynts

Editor: Nicholas Fornasier