Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)

In Everything Everywhere All at Once, Evelyn Wang discovers she can traverse multiple realities within the multiverse, accessing the skills and memories of alternate versions of herself. As she navigates fractured timelines, she confronts Jobu Tupaki, a version of her daughter who perceives all realities simultaneously and threatens to unravel existence. Though not traditional time travel, the film explores concepts such as causal loops, circular causality, and self-fulfilling prophecies as Evelyn struggles to find meaning across infinite possibilities while attempting to restore balance to the multiverse.

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Time Travel Concepts

Causal Loop

Alpha Waymond’s mission to prevent Jobu Tupaki’s rise inadvertently contributes to her creation, forming a loop where his actions are both the cause and effect of the same event.

Circular Causality

Evelyn’s interactions with different versions of herself lead to events that influence her own development, creating a circular cause-and-effect relationship across universes.

Bootstrap Paradox

Evelyn acquires martial arts skills from an alternate version of herself, resulting in a scenario where the origin of these skills is ambiguous, as they exist without a clear point of inception.

Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

Alpha Waymond’s belief that Evelyn is the key to stopping Jobu Tupaki sets in motion events that lead her to confront Jobu, thereby fulfilling the prophecy through his actions.

Mutable Timeline

Evelyn’s ability to access and alter different realities demonstrates that timelines are not fixed; her choices and actions can reshape events and outcomes across the multiverse.

Multiverse

The film’s central premise involves Evelyn navigating multiple parallel universes, each representing different outcomes based on varied life choices, embodying the multiverse concept.

Predestination Paradox

Alpha Waymond’s conviction that Evelyn is the only one who can stop Jobu Tupaki ensures that she follows the path leading to that confrontation, suggesting that her actions were always meant to happen and could not have unfolded any other way.

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Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)
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