Don't Treat Your Neighbor As You Would Like To Be Transcribed

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The idea of treating your neighbor as you would like to be treated has been such a big part of human morality. But now when the community and neighbors are literally in the billions, there's no way for that rule to actually hold true any more. i don't know how deep we want to go down, like the road ofike morality, or just like, turning this into a morality tal bytheaus. I was raised very religious, you know, evangelical, almost fundamentalist christian, and so now i'm amperiolurgic too. Like objective morality is very scary to me.

Every time we make an important decision, it’s hard not to wonder how things would have turned out had we chosen differently. The set of all those hypothetical lives is a kind of “multiverse” — not one predicted by quantum mechanics or cosmology, but a space of possibilities that is ripe for contemplation. In their new movie Everything Everywhere All At Once, Daniels (the collective moniker for writer/directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert) use this idea to tell the story of Evelyn (Michelle Yeoh), who is the “worst” of all her avatars in the multiverse. We talk about philosophy, filmmaking, and how we should all strive to be kind amidst the chaos.

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Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert are writers and directors collectively known as Daniels. They met and formed a collaboration while in film school at Emerson College. They have directed a number of music videos for artists such as DJ Snake and Tenacious D. Their first feature film was Swiss Army Man, starring Daniel Radcliffe.

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