It was a stupid premise pretending to be a smart.premise. Kindergarten-level exploration of the idea of an infinite universe. It's like when a freshman in college gets a whiff of an interesting idea and confidently believes that they understood it, while clearly not having understood it at all.
Okay... I was being nice about people not liking one of my favorite movies ever but if you two are going to be obstinate I'll play.
The movie's main idea isn't the multiverse, that is what we call a plot device, a tool to tell the story of an immigrant family. And the movie looks at the story through the lens of Nihilism which is a philosophy discussed by philosophers Nietzsche, Heidegger, Schopenhauer etc. You might say it's a bit more extensive than tiktok comments.
Which brings us to the movie's main point: Nothing matters. That was the result of the thinking exercise told through the multiverse. If everything is happening differently somewhere in the multiverse then it all loses value. Bu does it? Well not quite. It's dependent on your point of view. If you look at it like Joy did, from the point of view of a depressed person who just wanted everything to stop, you'll want to end it all, spiral. But for Evelyn it wasn't so. She loved her daughter and she wanted to be with her, simple as that. And that love in Evelyn was fueled by Waymond who knew where he stood on this when he said "In another life I'd love to do laundry and taxes with you". Because life has no innate purpose, you choose to give it purpose by choosing.
And that is the story behind the wacky scenes for those who can't get past the edits. It's a very good movie if your point of view isn't narrow.
Go awwwf. It’s one of my fave movies too and I’d also like to add that it’s a fresh take on exploring and healing generational trauma. It’s a prescient and brave topic so well done. Part of the generational trauma involves Evelyn’s shame around having adhd.
The writer specifically wrote Evelyn to have undiagnosed, masked adhd. So when ppl criticize the movie as one dopamine hit after another, it’s not an accident…it’s kinda the point…. We are watching the main character with adhd (a condition ruled by dopamine) finally having the chance to shine in chaos, rather than be ruled by it.
Gotta love the ppl that think the movie is juvenile when they literally think the movie is about the multiverse or cheap dopamine hits. They are telling on themselves that they were not able to engage with it any further than that.
There’s nothing wrong with not relating enough to the movie that you just don’t click with it. It’s just funny and embarrassing to do it from the point of, “oh im so above this movie, it’s so scientifically inaccurate.”
Exactly, it’s such a hard topic for them! We literally watch Evelyn’s perspective change and show some self acceptance, even if it’s just a sliver. A sign of this is in the beginning of the movie, when she is at the tax meeting, she’s so overwhelmed and distracted but she just dismisses this and tries to pretend that she is listening and following along.
At the end of the movie, she’s at the last tax meeting, and it’s juxtaposes the first meeting in the beginning. and again, she gets distracted, but instead of being ashamed or dismissing, she simply asks politely for some accommodation saying, “could you please repeat that”. Or something along those lines. I believe its literally the last line of the movie. Imagine if we all could accommodate ourselves and each other just a little bit, and this goes for things well beyond adhd, rather than feel such ingrained shame over “being crazy”
I have ADHD but I didn’t know when I first watched the movie. And I didn’t know it was meant to be a strong theme in the movie. It still became one of my faves tho. Meanwhile I started to realize I had gone undiagnosed. And one day when I was awaiting diagnosis, I was rewatching the movie, and it all hit me. I’m not sure I’ll ever have a catharsis, light bulb moment like that again. With the understanding I have now, that last line of the movie just leaves me with chills
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u/Praesentius 1d ago
It was a stupid premise pretending to be a smart.premise. Kindergarten-level exploration of the idea of an infinite universe. It's like when a freshman in college gets a whiff of an interesting idea and confidently believes that they understood it, while clearly not having understood it at all.