Misunderstood

So far the many post I've seen on this website has rated this movie mediocre at best. But, I feel as if you came into the movie expecting something else whilst having the meaning fly over your head.

I am a first generation Asian-American.
Sure, the special effects and the random scenes were funny or random but the meaning behind them were very well spoken. What we thought was the Villain, Joy Wang or Jobu Tupaki, was really a teenager experiencing the very common generational trauma firsthand. She had created the everything bagel to kill herself after she had thought she experienced everything in the multiverse. But in reality, she had only seen what she felt. A dysfunctional family and an ignorant mom. You see, in every multiverse there was at least some similarity between some of the characters, no matter how bizarre it was. And in Jobu Tupaki's case it was her feelings toward her mother. This was the true meaning most missed. Because once Evelyn had began to experience everything in the universe, she had also began to discover something else.

What she wasn't experiencing. You see, in all of Evelyn's lives in every multiverse she had experienced only what she had seen on the surface, but once she started with a new perspective it's how she discovered much more than what was there initially. For example, the love of her husband through her deep dissatisfaction with life. This is the true meaning we all missed.

It was never about the flashy effects or the random moments. Those were purely reflections of what was trying to be said. In the end, it was a mother trying to understand herself, and understand her daughter. Give her what she never got with her dad. The generational trauma she carried was finally put to an end when she realized everything she was experiencing wasn't different from what she was already experiencing. Whether it all be summed up to happiness or sadness, it was the same. And that is how she felt it all at once, and took the first step in fixing what was broken.