Is the movie Instant Conquer the Universe good to watch?

"The Instant Universe" is a movie that I think is very good in recent times. I have watched it four or five times and I have a lot of feelings about it. This movie had a great reputation when it was first released in North America. exploded, expanding from 15 theaters to more than 2,000; a high IMDB score of 8.7, ranking 46th on the IMDBTOP 250; some media have even included starring Michelle Yeoh in the discussion for next year's Oscar winner... Yes, Today we are going to talk about what is so good about the "Ephemeral Universe" that has been discussed recently? The protagonist of the story is Evelyn (Michelle Yeoh), a middle-aged Chinese woman who runs a coin-operated laundromat in the United States. Her life perfectly illustrates what it means to be a mess - her elderly father came to the United States from China. She has to take care of everything in a strange environment; her young daughter is in a rebellious stage, but she cannot disclose her identity as a lesbian, fearing that her conservative grandfather will not be able to accept it; her husband who has been with her for many years is a submissive man, and is still planning to have sex with her Divorce... Faced with nagging customers, declaration forms from the tax authorities, the upcoming Chinese New Year, and various trivial matters inside and outside the family, Evelin is always on the verge of collapse.

If you look carefully, isn’t this the normal life of many mothers and wives? Day after day has no end, and life has become an endless worry. Until one day, the usually timid husband suddenly seemed like a different person. He told her in the elevator, "I am not your husband, but another him in the parallel universe." At this time, a mysterious force was crossing Evelyn is being hunted across the multiverse, and he's here to help her escape. It sounds too silly, and the plot in the first half of the story is indeed extremely nonsensical - through a head-mounted device, Evelin in this universe can briefly overlap with herself in other universes, and borrow each other's abilities and abilities. Skill. In different universes, Evelin has different identities. Or an action star with great kung fu skills, or a working man holding a pizza on the street, or a member of some weird universe with fingers as soft and long as hot dogs. Even in a universe where no life was born, this version of Evelyn is just a rock. The concept of "multiverse" has been a hot topic that various films have wanted to take a share of in recent years, especially in today's Marvel Universe, where many new films revolve around this setting.

At first glance, "The Instant Universe" looks like a low-budget bad movie that is gaining popularity. Not only that, but in the first half of the story, the large number of wild and unconstrained plots really make people think that this is just a fantasy. It's just a farce. But if "The Instant Universe" were just like this, it would naturally not be able to become the movie of the year. Soon we discovered that the mysterious villain who traveled across different parallel universes to hunt down Evelin was none other than her daughter Joy (of course the Joy of another universe). This battle concerns countless universes. The battle of life and death is essentially a mother-daughter war. At this point, friends can also see that the core of "The Instant Universe" is actually the fate of women and family relationships.

Looking back, let’s take a look at those “Evelyns” with different destinies. They are different from the Evelyns who fell into the world. Maybe they didn’t elope with their husbands to come to the United States, maybe they didn’t. Falling out with her father, maybe not starting a family at all, her life would be completely different. After seeing her own living conditions in different universes, Evelin realized, "I once had so many possibilities," but in the current universe, she lived as the most "incompetent" one. In the various flashy fights in the first half of the film, the arrival of a certain "other self" seems to reflect the exhaustion of this Evelin. Her father, who fled when she was young, still faces her husband's indifference and daughter in middle age. of rebellion. Joey, who keeps chasing Evelin in the universe, is actually another incarnation of Evelin herself. A line in the film points out this relationship, "It was you (Evelin) who shaped her." She worked hard to maintain the family, but she ignored her daughter's feelings. She called her daughter's girlfriend a friend, put her feelings behind family trivial matters, and used the majesty of a parent to forcefully regulate her daughter's words and deeds.

Unknowingly, didn't she become like the father she fled from back then? Therefore, the fantastic time-travel adventure story in "The Instant Universe" is actually the understanding and war between mother and daughter, and it is also the road to women's self-liberation and mutual help. From this perspective, Evelin's efforts to "rescue" her daughter in the second half of the film have a deeper connotation. It is also because Evelin still remains true to herself after experiencing thousands of possible lives. Choose to be Joey's mother. This kind of commitment and tolerance moved many viewers and even made them cry. A conversation between mother and daughter at the end of the film was noticed by many viewers. Joey told his mother Evelyn - "You can be anyone and go anywhere. You can go to a world with a better daughter. We are here Time together means nothing” but Evelyn replied: But I will cherish all the time I have with you. She finally chose to use love and leave home to try to resolve the gap and obstacles between mother and daughter again. She wanted to be a different person from the father in her traditional East Asian family, so that her daughter would not be like in another universe. That way you choose to fall into the abyss and escape. It's a very East Asian ending to a story that shows the plight of women trapped in their daily lives, turning once-glorious teenagers into middle-aged women with their heads down on bills. At the same time, the film also shows their tenacity and persistence, their tenacity to not give in even if they are being hunted by the entire universe, and their persistence to save their daughter even if they fall off a cliff. How mothers and daughters understand each other and how to "save" each other is the core of the story of "The Instant Universe". It is not an exaggeration to say that such a work, which is full of imaginative forms and accurately teases out family relationships in East Asia, has received a lot of attention and praise.

There are imaginative multiverse settings, gorgeous visual effects shells, B-level fun and even heavy taste, and the simplest and most honest emotional core. It is like allowing us to see our own lives, learn to understand and reconcile, and touch the emotional weakness of countless people today. Such a crazy and delicate movie has the potential to break out of the industry. I wonder how you would rate it?