Photos: Dive into the enchanting world of multiverse films
We've had parallel universes and alternate dimensions in fiction for decades. And while these ideas were popularised by the mind-bending
We've had parallel universes and alternate dimensions in fiction for decades. And while these ideas were popularised by the mind-bending adventures of comic-book superheroes, there’s a wealth of tales that exist today outside the Marvel and DC multiverses. Take a look.
Published on Dec 02, 2022 01:28 PM IST 10 Photos
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Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022): The movie explores the many dimensions of parenthood and love through the story of a Chinese-American immigrant named Evelyn Wang (played by Michelle Yeoh) who, while struggling to run a failing laundromat business, uses her newfound powers to travel across multiple realities to save the world and work on her strained relationships with her loved ones. It’s a family drama that’s fast-paced, funny and, above all, tackles earnestly the idea of healing from intergenerational trauma.(Image Courtesy: A24 )
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The Lego Movie (2014): There’s a world of possibilities in the story starring Lego construction toys. Emmet (Chris Pratt) and Wyldstyle (Elizabeth Banks) go dimension-hopping through worlds with names such as Old West, Cloud Cuckoo Land and Middle Zealand, all to stop a tyrannical businessman from freezing our world using a tube of glue.(Image Courtesy: Warner Bros)
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Coherence (2013): The sci-fi/ psychological thriller follows eight friends at a reunion dinner party who experience strange events as a passing comet splits their reality in two. Chaos ensues as everyone must now kill their doppelgängers in order to be the last version standing when the comet moves on.(Image Courtesy: Bellanova Films, Ugly Duckling Films)
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Another Earth (2011): A promising MIT astrophysicist, Rhoda Williams (Brit Marling), distracted by the appearance of another Earth in the night sky, crashes her car, causing a musician to lose his pregnant wife and lapse into a coma. Haunted by guilt and regret, Williams travels to another version of Earth where the accident never occurred.(Image Courtesy: Artists Public Domain)
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