"Instantaneous Universe" swept the Oscar, Michelle Yeoh won the film, why do many people say it's not good?

At this year's Oscars, the most dazzling actress is Michelle Yeoh.

With her wonderful performance in the movie "Instantaneous Universe", she became the first Chinese female star to win the Oscar.

"Instantaneous Universe" can be said to have swept the Oscars this time, winning 7 awards in one fell swoop, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Editing, and Best Original Screenplay.

According to such an Oscar-winning film, the reputation should be excellent, such as "Listening Girl", which won the Oscar for Best Picture in 2022, with a Douban score of 8.6, the 2020 Oscar Best Picture "Parasite", with a Douban score of 8.8, and the best film "Green Book" in 2019, with a Douban score of 8.9.

However, "Instantaneous Universe", which swept this year's Oscars in one fell swoop, had a Douban score of only 7.6 points, which was recognized and honored by the industry while also met with a lot of objections. Many people said that the movie is not good, the plot is confusing, but also vulgar and bad fun, stereotypes of the Asian community are full of it, and finally return to the family standard, the twenty-first century, and a reconciliation ending with "love saves everything".

So what exactly is this controversial film about? Why is it so popular by the Oscar, and at the same time so many people have criticized it?

To be honest, the family life part at the beginning of the film is indeed suffocating, but the more you go to the back, the more imaginary it is, the fast-paced and sensual editing, the colorful switching of the multiverse life, the novel scenes, the big brain hole, people can't help but marvel: Wow, this is okay?

Let's take a look at the director of this movie, Guan Jiayong, who directed the third season of "The Group", a very brain-burning and crazy drama; Daniel Schnatter, who directed "The Death of Dick Lang", is full of many godstick plots, and the cause of death of the protagonist is even more jaw-dropping.

The two directors co-directed a movie "Swiss Army Knife Man" in 2016, some people say that this is a black fairy tale walking with corpses, in short, it is difficult to say, it has been nominated for the Independent Spirit Award and the Gotham Independent Film Award, and the reputation is quite good.

As soon as Guan Jiayong and Daniel Schnater, these two ghost directors joined forces, they had countless brain holes, and it is not surprising what kind of wonders appeared in the film.

1. It really interprets what is called "whimsy" - God plot, God brain hole, God clip

The most dazzling purpose of "Instantaneous Universe" is its "brain opening", but this brain hole is first based on the reality of forced death.

Evelyn in the main universe runs a laundry, dealing with trivial and complicated affairs on a daily basis, and also has a headache about filing taxes. The daughter is in the midst of a rebellious adolescence, has a girlfriend, Evelyn's old father flew in from China, and she has to rush to the IRS to file taxes.

In the elevator room, Evelyn's husband Webmond's expression suddenly changed, contrary to the previous warm and cowardly, and became unusually decisive and capable. He brought a pair of headphones for Evelyn and adjusted the mobile phone software, and Evelyn suddenly relived the first half of her life.

This Webmond, who claims to be from the Alpha Universe, travels in time to find Evelyn to save the universe. The Alpha universe has discovered the high technology of shuttling back and forth between different parallel universes, mainly by doing some strange events with a low probability of occurrence in Chiri, and then pressing the button on the headset to complete the jump between different universes.

Evelyn's daughter Joey is gifted and very suitable for cosmic shuttle, Evelyn specially trained her, resulting in brain overload, and as a result, after Joey traversed various universes, she became a big devil that can exist in various universes at the same time, creating bagels that can devour the entire universe, posing a huge threat to the entire universe.

Evelyn is the most failed and accomplished of all the universes, which instead becomes her advantage in traveling through the universe. She is very good at jumping between universes and finally proves that Alfa Vermond's vision is right with her strength.

After going through all kinds of lives in the universe, Evelyn still chooses to stay in this universe and be with her daughter Joey. Unlike Joey in the Alpha Universe, after gaining the ability to instantly complete the universe, Evelyn did not become a female devil, but found a way to empathize, understand everyone, and resolve conflicts.

A major feature of the film is the "God Brain Hole", and the brain hole shown in the film is really breathtaking. The way people move between different universes is so weird, left and right shoes are reversed, lipstick is eaten, "I love you" to enemies, and even bursting tanks, all kinds and weird.

Michelle Yeoh switches back and forth between different universes, and various universes are also a spectacle, in addition to the universe of the Eight Classics, there are actually puppet universes, stone universes, comic universes, and even universes where fingers are hot dogs, which is simply a reality.

Evelyn fought five hundred rounds with the daughter of the Great Devil, switching from one universe to another, losing in this universe, and continuing to fight in another universe.

In the empty and silent stone universe, a silent dialogue between the two stones unfolded, there was no sound at all, the silence was as good as ever, and the dialogue content was played on the big screen, but this paragraph was extremely impactful, which is also a unique scene in film history.

In addition to the "God Brain Hole" is amazing and amazing, there is also a sneaky "God Clip". Evelyn travels through the universe and quickly switches between different universes, which is a great test of editing skills.

Editor: Paul Rogers is really benevolent, the pace of the editing is fast and not mixed, dazzling but not messy, in an instant, flowing in the universe with different styles, the rapid splicing of the picture, the story lines of the characters in different cosmic lines are clear and distinctive, each with its own merits.

So many branches in the universe, both can each have its own branch, but also can be harmoniously unified in the main universe, which is a very test of the skill of editing, fortunately, Paul lives up to his mission, with a ghostly technique, showing the colorful and colorful multiverse and the unity of all things, with the beat of the soundtrack, the faster and faster screen switching speed pushes the plot to a climax, and at the same time pushes the protagonist Evelyn to her highlight moment.

2. Traverse the universe, even if it is a stone, and accompany you to fall off the cliff - Evelyn's psychological healing

The entire structural framework of "Instantaneous Universe" can be seen as a process of psychological healing.

At the beginning of the film, Evelyn's life is a mess, the laundry is cumbersome, the tax filing problem is big, the rebellious daughter takes her girlfriend home, Evelyn has never been able to accept it in her heart, and an elderly father has come from China, adding to the hectic.

At the end of the film, Evelyn has traveled the universe and felt countless of her own lives in the parallel universe, she can go anywhere, live any kind of life, whether it is a glamorous kung fu star or a singer of her dreams, but she still chooses to return to this reality, with this imperfect daughter Joey, gentle and firm.

From beginning to end, Evelyn completes her psychological healing, not only straightening out her bad life, but also saving her daughter who is heading into nothingness.

How does this healing process happen? After Evelyn obtained the magical power of the whole universe, she can use her own skills in any universe as she wishes, and when she is caught in the melee, she puts her toy eyes to her eyebrows, and she can see the hearts of everyone on the other side.

She no longer fights with brute force, but turns a hundred steels into finger softness, reaches the hearts of enemies when fighting, solves their heart knots and solves their problems, menacing thugs, one by one, everyone is cured.

Evelyn's unexpected magical powers make her have full empathy ability, everyone is no longer an enemy, but a person who is trapped in the world and suffers, and Evelyn has become a "Guanyin Bodhisattva" who rescues suffering and rescues suffering, and every time she fights, she can spill holy water, solve each other's stubborn diseases, and water a depleted heart.

Joey insists on leaving, insisting on jumping into her hollow bagels, Evelyn no longer controls, no longer obstructs, but follows in every universe, Joey is going to go to her bagel that destroys everything, Evelyn follows to the bagel, Joey's stone falls off the cliff, Evelyn's stone also falls with her down the cliff.

I give you the freedom you want, you can make any choice, even if it is to destroy yourself, but I also have the freedom to love you, and I will be firmly by your side, even if you want to fall into the abyss.

With this communication, empathy and tender and steadfast love, Evelyn saved her daughter. She not only completed her own psychological healing and straightened out her bad life, but also pulled Joey back from the edge of nothingness and completed the redemption of her daughter.

3. Love saves everything? It's not that simple—a philosophical discussion between being and nothingness

The story of "Instant Universe" focuses on the mother-daughter relationship of families, especially Asian families, but the pattern is not small, covering the whole universe in breadth and exploring the philosophical depth of existence and nothingness in depth.

There is a short comment on Douban that is as high as 10,000 likes, "I wish someday I could see a movie where love isn't the ultimate save". I hope one day I can see a movie that is not "love is the ultimate salvation."

But I think this movie is not as simple as "love saves everything".

Joey of the alpha universe, after experiencing life in countless parallel universes, got an intuitive feeling and conclusion, nothing matters, everything doesn't matter.

Therefore, people who have traveled through thousands of worlds and seen countless landscapes, every moment and every universe she is pulling her attention, but everything is no longer new to her, no longer meaningful. Like a leaf, she broke away from concrete reality and fell into the abyss of nothingness.

Alfa Joy became a big devil, crazy, violent, killing, it was all for her, because everything didn't matter. But she still has an obsession, looking for a unique Evelyn in thousands of universes, in fact, she is expecting a Evelyn who can pull her.

This Evelyn in the main universe has also gained the ability to instantaneously travel to the entire universe, she can reach every universe that Joey reaches and feel the kind of nothingness that Joey feels. There is also such a universe, a desolate earth, no life, all stones, human beings think that they are the center of the world, do not know that we are just small and stupid existences.

Evelyn gained the same ability as Joey, and after feeling Joey's feeling of nothingness, she gave a different answer. She finds a different path and still chooses to return to her main universe and be the mother of the imperfect Joey.

Evelyn found a way to solve the void from the feeling of nothingness that came to life after traversing the whole universe, that is, in the thousands of universes, I still choose this specific life, choose to be with my daughter as a mother.

Human beings are small and stupid, life has no meaning, but when we make a choice, we give meaning to life, living a living life, loving someone concretely, even if this life is not perfect, we ourselves and our loved ones are not perfect, but this is enough for us to jump out of nothingness a path to existence.

4, the movie that swept the Oscar, why do many people say it is not good?

"Instantaneous Universe" is an innovative work, which has a unique construction in visual presentation and narrative mode, which is different from the traditional film narrative method, which will inevitably challenge the acceptance of the public.

The plot of brain-opening peculiarities and nonsensical and urine will undoubtedly make some audiences feel uncomfortable and will affect the audience's acceptance.

This kind of challenge and rebellion against traditional film narrative must have certain limitations, and it is inevitable that some audiences will be disappointed.

Originally, a movie was made, it was destined to be difficult to adjust, it was difficult to satisfy all audiences, and it made bold innovations and explorations in the narrative form, and it was normal for the audience to have limited acceptance for a while.

On the other hand, watching movies is a very personal experience, everyone's tastes are different, everyone's personal experience and viewing expectations have their own merits, which can't stand that some people like its whimsy, some people think it's a magic horse thing, some people are amazed, deeply inspired, and some people think it is "stereotypical" Asian, a big circle is just clichés such as family reconciliation.

But it is undoubtedly an innovative work, both an innovative expression of narrative form and visual presentation, and a very serious exploration of philosophical issues such as existence and nothingness. From this aspect alone, this is a work of sincerity, and under the surface of the raucous comedy, there is still deep philosophical thinking.