The title kind of sums it up. The movie starts off in the most mundane of ways and then it takes a hard right into something completely different. It is Wu Shu meets Inception.
Evelyn Wang is a weary owner of a laundromat that is under IRS audit. We first meet her enjoying a happy moment with her husband Waymond and their daughter Joy (who is not aptly named). We see their smiling faces reflected in a mirror on their living room wall. As the camera literally zooms through the mirror, Evelyn’s smile fades, and she is now seated at a table awash with business receipts. She’s preparing for a meeting with an auditor while simultaneously trying to cook food for a Chinese New Year party that will live up to the high standards of her visiting father. Just as Evelyn begins to feel overwhelmed by everything happening in her life she’s visited by another version of Waymond from what he calls the Alpha verse. Here humans have learned to “verse jump” and are threatened by an omniverse agent of chaos known as Jobu Tupaki. Soon, Evelyn is thrust into a universe-hopping adventure that has her questioning everything she thought she knew about her life, her failures, and her love for her family. It is hard to make sense of, buyt that is the point.
It is an emotional, philosophical, and deeply weird trip through the looking glass into the multiverse and discovers metaphysical wisdom along the way. I loved it and was puzzled by it, and it is defintiely worht seeing and experiencing.
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