RadioTimes.com<\/a> that the most important thing is for fans to follow the emotional through-line rather than connect every single dot.<\/p>\n\u201cOften when I\u2019m watching a movie, I\u2019m thinking about the characters, their arcs, the themes, how it\u2019s going to connect, my brain just wants to solve the movie, which is such a disservice to the film and a disservice to you as the viewer,\u201d Kwan said. \u201cI\u2019m all about analysing film after the fact, but I want to experience the art, I want to experience something transcendent and sublime, which does not come from us trying to solve it.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I think it\u2019s this problem of control,\u201d he continued. \u201cThe viewer wants to have control and feel like they\u2019re smarter than the movie. And this movie was meant to rewire all of that stuff and basically, as an audience member, you either have to completely let go and just get pulled into the film, or you have a very unpleasant ride for most of the movie if you\u2019re trying to process it all. And I think for the people who don\u2019t like this movie, oftentimes it\u2019s because they weren\u2019t ever able to fully let go.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI do think that was something that was so fun,\u201d Scheinert added. \u201cOnce we started showing rough cuts to people and they said that they just had to give up on the logic and just follow the emotion at a certain point. And then the question became, at what point do we want them to do that? Because you don\u2019t want them to give up too early. But that\u2019s such an exciting thing to do to an audience when that\u2019s not the norm, when the norm is very much the opposite.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI will say, though, that despite all that, we did spend a lot of time making sure that the logic was sound,\u201d Kwan explained. \u201cSo there\u2019s almost an explanation for everything in the film, everything connects in some way in our heads. Even if the viewer might not know or fully understand that.\u201d<\/p>
Anyway, in order to make sense of the ending, there are still a few things that it is important to know. Amongst the many parallel universes Evelyn Wang is exposed to, perhaps the most important is the Alphaverse \u2013 the first one to successfully make contact with the others, where people have developed technology that allows them to project themselves into the bodies of their parallel selves, a process known as verse-jumping.<\/p>\n
Evelyn has specifically been recruited by the Alpha version of her husband Waymond to defeat an omniversal being called Jobu Tupaki \u2013 who we eventually learn is none other than the Alpha version of her daughter Joy, who had been forced into too many verse-jumping experiments by Alpha Evelyn and become a monster in the process.<\/p>\n
More precisely, this particular version of Evelyn has been chosen because she appears to be the least accomplished one \u2013 she hasn\u2019t mastered any skills to nearly the extent of her parallel selves, and because of this is judged to have more potential for verse-jumping.<\/p>\n
Anyway, having seen every single parallel universe at once, Jobu Tupaki has become something of a nihilist, and has started a cult of people with similar views, seemingly with the intention of taking down the entire multiverse. To this end, she has created an \u2018Everything Bagel\u2019 \u2013 a powerful black hole that has the power to destroy everything.<\/p>\n
So after battling off her various minions in various universes, Evelyn comes face to face with Jobu, who tries to win her over to her nihilist stance \u2013 even telling her that \u201cIf nothing matters, then all the pain and guilt you feel for making nothing of your life goes away.\u201d<\/p>\n
Initially, Evelyn appears to be convinced by this argument, and almost enters the Everything Bagel herself, but she is then saved by none other than her husband, Waymond \u2013 albeit one of the other incarnations of him \u2013 who informs her that rather than fighting with hands and weapons, sometimes it\u2019s better to fight with empathy.<\/p>\n
And so Evelyn changes tack: rather than fighting Jobu\u2019s sidekicks in a traditional manner, she instead uses her multiverse knowledge to find out what is hurting each of them and put it right, before she eventually reaches her daughter.<\/p>\n
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