Monster

Boys told they have a pig’s brain transplanted into their heads, which explains a) their poor behaviour and b) their effeminacy/homosexuality. Those are the monsters.

It’s got a wonderful ending, when you are supposed to think, I believe, that the two boys have died and have woken up in some kind of paradise version of our world – but you can’t be certain. It might just be a happy ending.

Everything Everywhere All at Once

For the third time. But for the first two I was asleep for most of it, so didn’t really have a clue. I remembered it as mad and incomprehensible, but from watching it ‘properly’ saw that it’s actually a pretty straightforward martial arts multiverse story – inasmuch as martial arts multiverse stories can be so.

But – and this is probably true of most martial arts multiverse stories, certainly of adventure stories (tLotR big-time) – it’s really about something much more homely and (dread word, my first casual usage) relatable. It’s a kind of dream sequence in which our protagonist works through her relationships with her husband and daughter. That’s it really, and it’s brilliant.

How they are related

Monsters are beings from magical adventure stories, so in that sense both films address perennial, real-world, family questions through an extension into the unreal magic/sci-fi.