It took me 30 minutes to find the exact way to describe the incredible madness I went through in those 141 minutes. So I'm going to try and there must be over a million interpretations to this story, so don't come to me if mine doesn't match yours.
Have you ever thought about what life would be like in an alternate reality? What if more of us live our best or worst selves? Even interesting, what if we could teleport? Would that make us happy or is the now and the love we have right here enough to not delve into the multiverse?
Directors: Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert
Writers: Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert
Stars: Michelle Yeoh, Stephanie Hsu, Jamie Lee Curtis
Writer-director duo Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert address all of these questions in their second film, creating a product so absurd it looks stupid but ends up being the smartest. But the journey to prove intelligence is so crazy that intelligent is not the word that comes to mind until the end. In their first film where farts were a legitimate superpower (Swiss Army Man, starring Paul Dano and Daniel Radcliffe), the filmmakers poked fun at the Everything Everywhere All At Once concept, and in their second they take it forward.
Of course, there is a multiverse and you travel through it. Channels and gates to travel through the multiverse, dents and cracks created and the result of the cracks caused and strange ways to repair them. But at its core, Dan and Daniel shape a story about bonds, love and adulation. In Evelyn, they shape a woman who not only belongs to an oppressed immigrant community among whites, but also has oppressed the inner self of her that she wants to fly. She is a woman who wants the best for her family, but she is also conservative about her daughter being gay. She has tried to be a writer, teacher, singer and many things, but possibly failed.
So when a woman who also has an overly optimistic husband with a scarcity-prone life is given the opportunity to live from the alternate universes herself, what does she learn? The script she finds solace in is chaos and absurdity, never really straying from its core, even when it seems like she does. It's about Evelyn understanding that nowhere in this gigantic space is a version of her living without problems. Her writing even pits her against her own daughter and further extends to the fact that it is love that conquers even the multiverse.
There is a universe in which people have hot dogs for fingers, or one in which people are legitimate dolls or crayon sketches. There is even one where they are stones and they talk to each other. Dan and Daniel seem to have gone to the strangest corners of their hearts and minds to tell the simplest story in the most complex way without turning it into a circus.
There are several Easter eggs and homages throughout the film. The funniest and cutest is Ratatouille. Decode a little more for yourself and let me know in the comments. Make sure you listen to the music carefully too. Also, let's not ignore it, the climax action sequence feels a little stretched.
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