"Everybody Wants It All" is a video-chat-style short film directed by Tony Katai starring Mars Argo. It was filmed in October 2013 for a private art event in Detroit,[1] and later uploaded to Katai's Vimeo account on February 19th, 2015. It was then reposted to his YouTube channel on November 8th, 2016.
Background[]
After the video's November 2016 release on YouTube, Argo asked Katai to take it down. Upon not receiving a response, she decided to provide a strike for the video to be taken down along with "Amanita", in an effort to cut association with Poppy and Titanic Sinclair. However, many fans and Katai himself have re-uploaded the two videos since.
When reversed, a hidden message in the video can be heard:[2]
If you want it all, you cannot be distracted by the illusion you've created. Only when the mind is silent, you can see clear enough to enjoy your life and forget about your desires. Your desires are irrelevant.
If you want it all, you cannot be distracted by the illusion you've created. Only when the mind is silent, you can see clear enough to enjoy your life and forget about your desires. Your desires are irrelevant.
Synopsis[]
The clip focuses on Argo, who is talking to an unknown person through a webcam. At one point, she puts a gun to her own head, shortly before coughing up dark blood. The video is edited to appear in low quality, with occasional lag and quality changes.
Gallery[]
Transcript[]
[Mars Argo]
Are you there? Hey, can you hear me? There you are. I'm really happy that we get to have these talks. I feel like, I don't really have anyone else to talk to, I mean, my cat, my goldfish. And my goldfish isn't really feeling that well right now, it's all that lady's fault. Well, I was thinking today, when I was looking at the goldfish that, I don't know. I guess I was just thinking about a lot of things. I don't know if any of them really make any sense, I mean, what's the point of all this anyway, right? This is kinda fun! It's funny, right? Playing games. Gum, gun, gum, gun. It's all a big joke, right? Sometimes... sometimes, I just throw up blood. It wasn't your fault, it wasn't anybody's fault, I just wanted it all. Everybody just wants it all, right? Everybody just wants it all.
[Tony Katai, reversed]
You cannot be distracted by the illusion you've created. If you want it all, you cannot be distracted by the illusion you've created.
Only when the mind is silent, you can see clear enough to enjoy your life and forget about your desires.
Your desires are irrelevant.
Trivia[]
- The gun used in the video may also be the gun used for "Facebook" and "Guns Should Be Illegal".
- The music that plays during the first ten seconds was originally theorized to be the unreleased Johnny K remix of "Beauty Is Empty", but Katai himself later clarified that it's an instrumental produced by himself which has nothing to do with the aforementioned song.
References[]
- ↑ "On November 8, 2016, a friend of Mr. Mixter's uploaded a video entitled "Everybody Wants It All"... (cont.)". TMZ. Archived from the original. Retrieved June 2, 2022.
- ↑ staffy (January 6, 2020). "everybody wants it message reversed". YouTube. Retrieved June 2, 2022.