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‘Everything Everywhere’s Dan Kwan & Jonathan Wang On Meeting Moment Of “Mental Health Crisis” With “A Shotgun Blast Of Joy And Absurdity And Creativity” – Oscars Backstage

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In an appearance backstage at the Academy Awards following seven wins for Everything Everywhere All At Once — the most in a year for any title since 2013’s Gravity — filmmaker Dan Kwan and producer Jonathan Wang spoke about their drive to use the explosively joyful feature to address some of the more dark and difficult aspects of life.

The question was directed to the pic’s writer, director and producer Kwan, with reference to mention he’d made on stage earlier in the night of his struggles with insecurities and mental health issues. “I think we’re in a mental health crisis right now,” observed the creative. “Especially the younger generation, they don’t have much to look forward to.

When you talk to students these days, there’s a bleakness that kind of is all-pervasive.” Kwan went on to say that while he himself had “a lot of dark times” in his own youth, “one of the best superpowers” he’s had in dealing with his personal challenges is the ability “to talk” about his experiences through his art. “I think the radical transformative power of joy and absurdity and chasing your bliss is something that I want to bring to people who are like me when I was that age,” said the filmmaker. “This movie is a shotgun blast of joy and absurdity and creativity.

And I really hope that the next generation can watch a movie like ours and just be like, ‘Oh.’ Because there is another way to look at the bleakness, and another way to face it head on.” Producer Wang subsequently spoke about the responsibility that filmmakers and members of the media share, in terms of acknowledging the power that comes with their platform, and the kind of impact their work has on others. “I think that…all [of us] in this room, we do a job that drives eyes

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