"Fuck Multiverse", the sugar-coated hills of life

Do people's interest in ordinary entertainment—such as listening to music, watching movies, and reading novels—diminished with age? I didn't do in-depth research, I just guessed based on experience, but generally it should not be wrong, right?

Why talk about this? In fact, I want to recommend the movie "Everything Everywhere All at Once" to everyone, especially the young people who are not the consumers of popular entertainment, but their older generation; if the scope is further expanded In a nutshell, it is the parents of teenagers, not the young parents of toddlers or children, nor the older parents of adults.

The reason why I say this is purely my interpretation of the core of the film, focusing on the entanglement and hesitation of teenage parents over the way their children are educated. This kind of embarrassing feeling of going back and forth and trying on the road is difficult for non-experienced people to understand. Even the parents of teenagers in the Chinese world should be more concerned. After all, creatures such as tiger mothers and tiger fathers are special products of Chinese culture. Therefore, "Mom's Multiverse" must be filmed by Chinese people, and the background must be set in a Chinese immigrant family, so as to amplify the choice and conflict effect of parents' letting go or not.

Because of the job, to play such an old-fashioned didactic proposition well, it is not surprising to add some kongqiang elements and wrap it as sugar coating. So those happy jokes that spoof other movies are just seasonings to test whether you have seen enough movies, and are purely for laughter to relieve boredom. In the absence of stimulants, the film is guaranteed to be sleepy and staid. But for those who don't know sour, you have done some of your homework.

Some people like to complicate simple things in filmmaking, and they also figure out how to sneak through the Chencang without revealing any traces. This unnatural deepening feeling is very deliberate in my opinion ( I am definitely not talking about Nolan ). In contrast, the saccharification method that Guan Jiwei deliberately used when he directed this film, in other words, "deliberately", but it turned the negative into a positive effect, which is more smooth. This is what I appreciate.

Although this film can be regarded as a "cang film" on the surface, it still provides an answer while laughing. Coincidentally, I've just finished reading two books, Beautiful Boy and Tweak, written by a father and son - David Sheff, Nic Sheff, respectively. The huge gap between the two generations is narrated from the first-person perspective of each other. In David's eyes, Nic, who has been intelligent since childhood, has become a poisonous insect under his self-confessed enlightened and intelligent upbringing, and is a waste of wood that has been reduced to a mean street, a prison, and even the brink of death. The most unbearable thing is that this sinking is beyond redemption for more than ten years. When the son complains over and over again, "Don't control my life, even if I die, it's none of your business", what should a father do? Does your heart hurt? No wonder it hurts! But continue to tube or not? Should you let go? To what extent? The most terrifying thing is that emotions are slowly eroded and worn away, but it seems that there is no other way than to go to the final desperate situation where there is nothing greater than the death of the heart.

I first read my father David's book (the book was also adapted into a movie of the same name in 2018, I haven't seen it yet), and then read my son Nic's book, which means that both myths have been witnessed once, and they are more real and cruel compared to each other. David is the one who struggles with emotional frustration and the dilemma of letting go for many years, while Nic fully understands the rebellious mood of the son of man - especially the teenage child - eager to be independent. The point is, as a parent, what do you do?

After reading the two books, I felt a thousand emotions, and I shed tears of sympathy for the father and son, just like the "Mom's Multiverse" that rose with stamina. The book and the movie are seamlessly connected, and I really choose to repeat the material for myself to review the father-son relationship... I say repeat, because I am currently in the same awkward period. Just like the two stones of mother and daughter on the edge of the cliff in the prehistoric universe, do you jump and I jump too? This is not a remake of the Titanic love drama, but what is the difference in the nature of love? As mentioned above, there are explanations in the film, which are a little comforting.

In the end, I think it's a pity that the plot of the movie after it started to get serious, dragged on for too long and let the coolness evaporate. When something goes serious, it's usually the beginning of the end, isn't it? Ted Lasso I'm talking about you!

Today's babble is over, here's the Beatles' "Taxman" to pay tribute to the old IRS auntie in the film: Jamie Lee Curtis. Sincerely, the so-called death and tax are the only two constant things in the world. It is wonderful to use the tax as a metaphor for life.