Everything Everywhere All at Once may be the most Christian film you watch this year
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Ben Cohen2023-03-14T11:30:00
Oscar-winning Everything Everywhere All at Once is totally bonkers, says Ben Cohen. But it is littered with Christian parallels that shine the hope of the gospel into the deepest darkness of human experience
Right now, the multiverse theory is still just that - a theory, in the brain-scramblingly complex world of theoretical physics. In short, along with the vastness of our own universe, there exist numberless other parallel universes with subtle, or not-so-subtle differences, to our own. Oh, and it may be possible to access these through black holes, though you really don’t want to try that.
In the worlds of sci-fi and fantasy, this idea is now an established fixture. Heroes and villains can jump between alternative realities, meet and fight against or alongside different versions of themselves and reappear from another universe after they have been unwisely killed off.
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