The movie is in its own cathegory, therefore no rating should apply. Compare it with classical movies, it is nothing, gets a 1... Compare it with modern martial arts movies, it is brilliantly reverting to martial arts essence and gets an 8... Compare it with revolutionary Sci Fi franchises, like The Matrix, it is an upgraded version, that is and is not new in the same time - not sure what rating applies.
The thing is this movie is a bit of every of the above, and others more, therefore should probably be rewatched, and what glues it together and allows a possible rating would be the note that is most constant in the aftertaste, repeatedly, and its value within that cathegory, if it is not one completely devoid of competition. The producers have however mentioned Rick and Morty, and there are other movies concerning multiverses, or game universes, so maybe it is a cathegory in the making, being populated as we speak.
What can I say, without rewatching?
*for the moment I do not know if I even want to rewatch it, the feeling can be described as sort of a brain hangover
*it aims to help with some of the disaster felt by young generations, like giving instructions on how to deal with chaos better, because chaos itself ain't gonna be solved soon
*it provides similar help for older generations that served as a bridge towards what is going on, although in the story, it was their fault for rushing things and in fact they are the ones who caused chaos and all the pressure the young have today
*it feels more like a family centered drama, or a generations centered one, than a Sci Fi
*could have skipped the sex-related elements, but I guess they are sending a message for all those who went to this extreme in their quest for meaning and purpose, or just for effing feeling something again in what they perceive as a world devoid of sensorial stimuli
*brilliant reintroduction of martial arts, after the mess made by all the commercial movies depicting them - martial arts are NOT originally sports, but energy manipulation, triggering physical effects
*lots of concepts from India and Asia mythology and spirituality, weirdly unexplained - I saw interviews where the movie team claims certain names, visuals and gestures are just gamified, jokes or creative randomness - why do they lie?! Mythological motifs of chaos and certain entities that rule it, or generate it, abund, and the movie's elements can be traced back to some of these. And it does not just happen, because they have details - the way Jobu steps aside her mother's head on the stairs, in closeup, is a reminder of how Kali stopped in her destruction after stepping with her right foot above her husband... but I am not completely familiar with these motifs to be able to understand exactly how they used them.. Just noticing they are in the movie, and not "by chance". Also the Indian movie playing on the screen, I would have to know what movie or story is that, to understand a bit... so, more things to find out. Maybe they claim randomness because the young would turn away from "we're repacked for your understanding some very very old things" - maybe...
*someone here concluded that the message is "set aside what could have been, and just strive to be happy with what you have, even modest". I think not! There is a complicated explanation in the movie of why this Evelyn is the one needed to solve her daughter's entanglement with the chaos, and it is completely different. I am making an effort here, but by abandoning one dream after another, this Evelyn lives her "failure" version of a life with her eyes wide open, making herself available to see it all from the outside, being herself mobile in concepts and strong when it comes to aknowledge other versions exist. She is un-lodged in one type of life, non attached or less attached to a fixated truth, as her better more successful versions are, therefore open to seeing the possibilities and able to understand her daughter's story
*the message IS an empowering one, although hard to pin down; what do you do when there is nothing stable, secure, predetemined and calming around? And it is a fact, beyond the bull*it of "you are just troubled because you have to change the way you think" psychanalytic mantra... what do you do when the world is bluntly going down the drain, as you used to know it? What do you hold on to? The movie wants to help with getting an answer, which could be, I imagine, understood by each viewer in its own way.
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