Is Multi Verse Making Life Meaningless?

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multi verse is actually a kind of anti narrative in that way where if you have a character make a decision, then nothing matters. I think we needed to convince ourselves that even if we are just one tiny speck inna sea of infinite other versions of ourselves, that there's something till worth holding on to in this moment. The idea of treating your neighbour as you would like to be treated has been such a big part of human morality and i am fascinated by it. And so now when the community and neighbors are literally in the billions, there's no way for me to hold any more true about what people should do with their lives.

Every time we make an important decision, it’s hard not to wonder how things would have turned out had we chosen differently. The set of all those hypothetical lives is a kind of “multiverse” — not one predicted by quantum mechanics or cosmology, but a space of possibilities that is ripe for contemplation. In their new movie Everything Everywhere All At Once, Daniels (the collective moniker for writer/directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert) use this idea to tell the story of Evelyn (Michelle Yeoh), who is the “worst” of all her avatars in the multiverse. We talk about philosophy, filmmaking, and how we should all strive to be kind amidst the chaos.

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Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert are writers and directors collectively known as Daniels. They met and formed a collaboration while in film school at Emerson College. They have directed a number of music videos for artists such as DJ Snake and Tenacious D. Their first feature film was Swiss Army Man, starring Daniel Radcliffe.

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