EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE
EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE. Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, directors, script. Jason Kisvarday, production design.[1] Languages: English, Mandarin, Cantonese. USA: A24 et al. (production & distribution), 2022. 2 hours, 12 minutes. See IMDb-Pro for complexities of production and distribution.[2]
In 1975, in The Female Man, Joanna Russ offered a thought experiment where four genetically identical women are raised in societies and cultures on closely parallel time lines, but societies that differ significantly on gender issues. EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE does something similar, but in the Metaverse of many different parallel universes, differing more or less in terms of "distance" (in at least a figurative sense) from one another. Russ pretty much just dismisses the issue of how her characters get from time-line to time-line (universe to universe). EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE has some technobabble on the issue, but, significant here, gives its non-answer visually: transition is associated with and mediated by devices that look like ordinary smartphone headset and other futuristically-tweaked-in-appearance devices.
RDE, finishing, 21Aug22