“Everything everywhere at the same time”: the other movie about the multiverse | CRITICISM

Touted as the counterpart to Dr. Strange 2, as the movie that has played the multiverse the best this year, to “Everything everywhere at the same time” That description was too short. Although the film directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert uses the idea of ​​parallel worlds as a connecting thread between the different stories it tells, it stands out above all in its unpredictability, which reaches amusingly absurd limits, but with a masterful background that ends with half a movie theater crying over a rock.

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And it is that unlike other films that insist on explaining to their audience the complex world of the multiverse, here the trips are made through a simple device that connects to consciousness through headphones, and allows you to navigate through countless alternative versions of one. same.

In general, the explanation of the device is vague and leaves a daze that makes you empathize with the confusion of the protagonist, who is initially more interested in paying her taxes than being a superhero. But little by little, and through her humor, we will see her in the different versions of her as a professional chef, an expert in martial arts, a famous opera singer and even in the midst of a lesbian love conflict in a world of humans with finger fingers. sausages.

But exploring different realities imagining absurd worlds is not his greatest merit. This is the dedication to think of a coherent enough background for each character to generate empathy with the viewer. The intention of the film is that we connect emotionally even with the most outrageous situations, and it succeeds.

Despite the large number of plot twists and stories coexisting, the film manages to boil it all down to one question: What would happen if you were able to travel to other universes? Contrary to the fanaticism and excitement surrounding this issue, the response is disappointing. This is because of the three parts that the film has, the first two reach a philosophical conclusion that leaves a nihilistic restlessness, an emotional emptiness that almost all of us have felt before the infinity of the universe.

If the last part did not exist, the film would probably send more than one to therapy, since the resolution takes every minimal part of what happened to just make sense of the whole. This can be read from different perspectives: a message of romantic love, another of salvation between the mother-daughter relationship, or even the meaning of human existence. It does not leave the viewer indifferent.

Although due to its ambition to try to cover all these issues, the film is messy, and it also does not allow rationalizing everything that happens because the sequences are piled one on top of the other; “Everything everywhere at the same time” is more enjoyable if we turn off logic and enjoy the laughter, suspense, bewilderment and tears that Hollywood’s most original sci-fi multiverse to date has in store for us.

Qualification

★★★★✰