the cast of Everything everywhere at once Strikes a pose at the 95th Academy Awards. (Los Angeles, March 12, 2023) Getty Images:
Awarding 7 awards to a film based on the theory of parallel universes, Oscar 2023 crowns the idea of a slightly geeky world, often misguided but constantly in search of better versions of itself.
A year ago, the “Oscar” ceremony was talked about because of a slap. male violence, no matter what the intentions, took precedence over the rest. A year later, the slap was still present in Jimmy Kimmel’s speech, which he linked to 2022. However, the comparison stops there.
In the video, Everything everywhere at oncethe teaser
The 2023 “Oscar” is a completely different proposition from the previous seasons. The change from denominations was felt. the possibilities were huge, going in many different directions, considering both the most prestigious of Hollywood filmmakers (Steven Spielberg) and the most powerful blockbuster of recent years (Top Gun:), as well as a surprise film released by an independent studio, the success of which surprised everyone, Everything everywhere at once . For several days, the bets of American specialized websites and media were going in the direction of the victory of this latest film, whose nominations were very large. it was found in eleven nominations, suggesting that it had a particular favorite. , even if these statistics were not verified for proven success. Result: indeed this movie is the big winner of the year.
Comic Book Compost
Despite its title, which could be a pastiche of a bad song by the English band Radiohead, Everything everywhere at once refers to two fundamental elements that mean that there has been a radical change in the way we perceive the world now. The first is that the scripts that now dominate fiction come from a land called “comics.” The prevailing idea of parallel universes at the center of the film was spread by American comics; several scientists from the late 19th century outlined the possibility of parallel worlds, then Winston Churchill cautiously resumed their use. in his memoirs. By then, it was all part of pop culture thanks to cartoonist Carmine Infantino and screenwriter Gardner Fox, who forced the idea of the “multiverse” into history in 1961. A flash of two worldsis now seen as the beginning of modernity in American comics.
After a while, you no longer know what world you live in. this somewhat suggests the idea of multiverse, parallel universes.
Science fiction writer Michael Moorcock joined them in 1963 in one of the stories in his Eternal Champion cycle. In the process, many screenwriters and authors of comics or science fiction have used this strategy of parallel worlds, in constant coexistence, to build a series of rather convoluted stories, which end up with a sequence of stories so complex that it is necessary to revise everything regularly. After a while, you no longer know what world you live in. this somewhat suggests the idea of multiverse, parallel universes. And it resonates strongly with the modern world, which, since the early 1990s and Francis Fukuyama’s theory of the end of history, has seen history live in a linear, even cyclical fashion, gradually abandoning the idea.
Back Matrix, as early as the 2000s were flirting with it in accounting form. From now on, as if the cinema is saying, in the continuation of the comics, everything is possible at the same time, constantly. It is called a fairly organized mess and seems to repeat the beginning of the 2020s (epidemic, war, it shook up the timelines and perceptions).
Other identity options
Another key element that emerges from the triumph of this film is the fact that it can reveal the opposite form of the horoscope; where the wave of astrology stems from the need to cling to fictional clues that offer perspectives on the future (Theodor Adorno showed: long ago, in Earth from the stars. Los Angeles Times Astrology Column(that horoscope texts are written in literature that aims to strike a welfare blow at the morale of the readers), the possibility of a parallel life that results from past choices allows us to say that nothing is ever lost, that everything is always possible, that somewhere else that there is another version of oneself, and that there is always time to join it. A kind of absurd horoscope that contradicts one of the philosophies underlying the intellectual construction of the 20th century, existentialism; In Albert Camus, Sisyphus, a character from Greek mythology, has no choice about his burden and existence. Her only option is to be happy, despite everything, in a life that will begin forever the same.
The 2023 Oscars seem to be against it, awarding a film that espouses the invention of a philosophy that is as opposite a horoscope as “wishful thinkingIt is already so common in everyday thinking. tell me who you could be, i’ll tell you what you can become. The real good news in all of this is that the Oscar for Best Actress went to the film’s star, the enormous Michelle Yeoh, who becomes the first Asian actress to win an Oscar. And that best actor statuette awarded to the return of the 1990s loser, the brilliant Brendan Fraser, who The pointplays a fat introvert, a cliché of a comic book reader who loves many worlds?
In the video, The point With Brendan Fraser: Trailer
Source: Le Figaro
