Or is it really just about farcical eroticism?
Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022), the sensation of 2022, is an attempt to incorporate the concept of the multiverse into a movie. The multiverse is the set of all Universes, generated by points in time where things can go one way or the other. Each Universe represents one tine of the fork. Even confined to conscious decisions by thinking creatures, the energy consumption is mind-boggling, unaddressed in this story, which tends to get in the way of enjoying it.
However, on the plus side it allows ineffectual characters to have alter-egos, as it were, who are far more skilled or adventurous or even just darn-all lucky; exploring where those characters could go is part of the fun, even as their brains metaphorically explode.
But in this meta-universe of a multi-verse, minds begin sensing what they never evolved to understand, as if an entirely new sensory apparatus was suddenly not only tacked on to one’s body, but its output routed into a brain which can barely even understand that there is a new input, much less make sense of it. For some brains, this is madness. But for one, its omniscience leads to super powers that leads to boredom and even, possibly, questions of whether morality can exist in such a situation.
In the end, this movie is a lot of fun, but if you demand coherence and plausibility from your stories, this might be a stretch. Don’t mistake: it’s well made, good acting, fascinating story, good special effects, and a sense of humor. But your cup of tea may have one of Cthulhu’s tentacles reaching about after this.
