Jobu Tupaki Was Right (Everything Everywhere All At Once Essay/Analysis)

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Jobu Tupaki Was Right (Everything Everywhere All At Once)

What would have happened if Jobu was successful in her mission to go inside the everything bagel? Is it possible that she could have been right? Was The Bagel a portal to the next dimension? Would you leave everything behind to go to the next level? Let's unpack this in my latest video essay about EEAAO.

[WenChiLittleOwl]

This the only commentary (I’ve watched on YouTube so far) that really touches a deeper meaning of the film. I truly felt that the Daniels are trying to deliver some sincere spiritual messages behind the mask of sci-fi/Kong fu/comedy/drama, something more than the obvious theme of family relations, self-discovery and growing empathy typical of inner work… “Nothing really matters” has another layer of meaning: “NO Things (are) matter”. Once you have experienced all things all at once in the multiverse, it only makes sense to log out of the program of “matters” and get back to the source of “no matters”. Jobu’s role is more like “conversation with God”, or even the “Creator” herself. Thank you so much for making this video. Very enlightening indeed!

[nubocerbo]

I understand the Optimistic Nihilism angle but to me the message was more Absurdist in nature. I agree that Jobu Tubaki didn't want to die but she wanted to cease existing in her current state because she came to a logical endpoint and had no reason to continue. In the end when her mother expressed kindness and love to her it reinstated a reason to continue existing despite knowing every possible endpoint of her existence.

Also this implies that that version of her mother was the only one to love her that way which is kinda sad.

[hcxpl]

I don't believe in any kind of metaphysics or live beyond the one we have, but I do think you are in some way right that Jobu was right, just not due to a higher plane.
My problem with the higher plane idea is exactly that the whole point of a Multiverse, of Everything, Everywhere, All at Once, is that she has seen all that the universe has to offer, all that could possibly be and couldn't find any meaning bc it was all arbitrary. Alpha Raymond, who we start to percieve as a d*ck by the end of the movie attributes the acts of Jobu to "neglecting any sense of objective reality" when that's exactly the point: The Absurd; there's no way to concilliate all of our experience on some kind of transcendental meaning, and the journey she goes through the movie is to see beyond what is or could be, what it has, and more about what she can make of it, see the parts that make sense to her and revel in them.
Sometimes one can want to be a rock, stop thinking or feeling, and the Bagel represents the ultimate death of self. But as both Jobu and her mother learn at the end, not as a definitive answer but sort of a challenge, is to live live authentically, not depending on some sort of "objective" sense of meaning and just trying to actually live and connect, to appreaciate this unique opportunity to experience reality, to exist, to be alive.

[ShangaelThunda]

"We're just bags of meat, water and electricity, floating on a rock in space, traveling a thousand miles per hour to God knows where."

After watching this video like five times, that line still stands out to me every time lol.

[ShangaelThunda]

Jobu kind of reminds me of Bathurst from the movie Infinite. Another antagonist that I absolutely love.

[PSNTheSunsRay]

This movie was basically about the parents choices affecting their kid who was subject too JobuTubaki

[slimgrim]

you know, im still wondering how the hell jobu is still somewhat sane. the multiverse is literally INFINITE, so having an inumerable amount of sensery input from being connected to every version of herself simultaneously should have instantly broken her mind, at best driving her insane and at worst completely brain dead.
its like the 'total perspective vortex" from hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, which destroys a persons mind by forcing them to perceive all of existance.

also p.s. i kinda prefer to call it the "Everything Torus" instead of the everything bagel, since it sounds a bit cooler, and thats the geometrical name for the object.

[ShangaelThunda]

She literally was on the verge of Ascending beyond this realm of existence, and creating her own realm. She was on the verge of becoming the god of her own realm. And instead, she was tricked into staying here, like some average mundane human. Just another being with a wasted existence. All that potential stuck here with the rabble. All because the writers are average mundane humans with no ability to see further than simple human love. Love & Hope are the biggest traps of this reality. It's mind-bogglingly infuriating to watch the Matrix win again & again.

[JaronIknershow]

What do ya'll think? Is Jobu really the bad guy?

[chamorvenigo]

Optimistic Nihilism? If this movie is a full course meal on Nihilsm, then you are just tasting the appetizer.

[kurm]

Nigga the point of this movie is when things just don’t matter in your life theres atleast theres something to love and cherish at the end.

[ShangaelThunda]

The movie got it wrong. Jobu got it right. She was on the verge of exiting the Matrix, and maybe even destroying it in the process, but her human attachments, specifically her mother, stopped her from completing the mission. A mission that only she could complete. She was the One, now she's just another slave, trapped in a meaningless existence amongst the rest of the human cattle. She was a Goddess. A nigh infinite being that could've potentially made it all the way out of this Holographic cess pool. Now she's Such a sad ending. I was hoping there would FINALLY be a character to actually go through with it instead of being defeated or deterred by their attachments to their false lives, AGAIN. It happens every time there's a story like this. We never get to see Yulaw become the One, Smith destroy the Matrix, Sasuke kill Naruto & become the Shadow Hokage, Killmonger destroy the global elitist hierarchy, Karli Morgantheu defeat the world's governments, or Jobu break the Multiverse. There's always some trash piece of plot that stops them from going all the way and keeps EVERYTHING EXACTLY as it is, with no real changes or solutions to solve the very real problems presented by the supposed antagonist(s). The writers always do them dirty in the end, as if their entire agenda was objectively wrong or pointless, when they're the only beings in the story, with the vantage point required to know what needs to be done and the willpower to do it. It's absolutely tragic.