For me it started off promising because it seemed like it was taking the multiverse “seriously” (in some sense; not in the sense of making logical or physical sense, not in the sense of being non-humorous, but in the sense of the multiverse being Real for the characters). I thought it was poetically pregnant how the older woman was powerful because of all her unfollowed dreams.
The nihilism could hypothetically have been interesting, and could have worked with the trauma or whatever, but IMO it didn’t end up coherent / archetypally real / resonant. (I also thought the movie was very flawed in other ways that significantly detracted from it for me, e.g. most of the humor fell flat to me and the structure became very repetitive, like they made a spreadsheet of 4 alternate universes, 4 plot points, and then filled out every combination of alt + situation.)
For me it started off promising because it seemed like it was taking the multiverse “seriously” (in some sense; not in the sense of making logical or physical sense, not in the sense of being non-humorous, but in the sense of the multiverse being Real for the characters). I thought it was poetically pregnant how the older woman was powerful because of all her unfollowed dreams.
The nihilism could hypothetically have been interesting, and could have worked with the trauma or whatever, but IMO it didn’t end up coherent / archetypally real / resonant. (I also thought the movie was very flawed in other ways that significantly detracted from it for me, e.g. most of the humor fell flat to me and the structure became very repetitive, like they made a spreadsheet of 4 alternate universes, 4 plot points, and then filled out every combination of alt + situation.)