"Instantaneous Universe" is definitely the hottest film at this year's Oscars, nominated for 11 awards and 7 awards, including Best Director, Best Actress (Michelle Yeoh), Best Supporting Actor (Kwan Jiwei), Best Supporting Actress (Jamie Lee Curtis), Best Original Screenplay, and Best Editing.
This is the first time that Michelle Yeoh, who is Asian, has won an Oscar and the first Asian to win this award. Not only that, "Instantaneous Universe" has allowed Michelle Yeoh to win dozens of big and small Best Actress trophies (there are too many large and small awards, it is difficult to count).
According to incomplete statistics, "Instantaneous Universe" has accumulated 343 awards and 691 nominations in the 2022-2023 awards season, successfully surpassing "The Lord of the Rings 3" to become the most awarded film.
Winning so many awards, on the one hand, proves that the quality of the film has been recognized by many people, on the other hand, personal speculation may also have some relationship with the main creative group of the film! But "Instantaneous Universe" is indeed a movie worth watching, and it also provides a new way to play the theme of the multiverse.
When it comes to the multiverse, the first thing that comes to mind is super-British movies, specifically Marvel and DC. The multiverse has appeared in the comics of Marvel and DC, and subsequently appeared in movies and series.
We see a lot of film and television works related to the multiverse, such as "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse", "Spider-Man 3", "Doctor Strange 2", as well as the previous X-Men series, DC's series and so on.
But in the embodiment and application of the multiverse, these works are almost identical, either people from different universes gather together to do something, or people from another universe come to help people in the main universe.
To put it bluntly, it is to serve various reboots of the superhero theme, through the concept of the multiverse to facilitate the direct appearance of a certain setting character before to offset some bugs, and at the same time attract the emotional card to make money. Specifically, you can refer to the recent "Spider-Man 3" and the return of deceased characters in the future MCU.
This time, "Instantaneous Universe" is similar to the conventional setting in the setting of the multiverse, and the biggest difference is in the application. The film tells the story of Michelle Yeoh as Evelyn, whose family and career are in a bad mess, and she also has to prevent her daughter from cheating.
At this moment, the husband suddenly turns into an agent-like figure, claiming that only Evelyn, who is useless, can save the world.
This made Evelyn feel that the heavens were about to descend on the people of Sri Lanka in a confusion, and just when Evelyn was struggling to live and save the world, she found that the person who destroyed the world turned out to be her daughter in other multiverses, and the road to saving the world turned out to be the road to reconciliation between herself and her daughter.
The multiverse in the film does not let many Evelyns appear at the same time, but allows Evelyn in the main universe (that is, the worthless Evelyn) to feel herself in all the multiverses, and can borrow their abilities and the objects around them.
Michelle Yeoh, who was originally a martial arts actress, and such a setting also created a gorgeous fight scene in the film, and Evelyn's endless "weapons" appeared, causing a group of "villains" to fall to the ground and submit.
In fact, the film is not as magical as it is, don't set your expectations too high when watching. But it is undeniable that the creativity and setting of this film are still very interesting, playing new tricks on the multiverse, while telling a story about family ethics under this multiverse shell.