In recent months, the White House has been the world’s reality TV central, where bare-faced untruths and self-contradictions are rolled out not by extreme social media commentators or tin pot dictators but at White House press briefings.
The 2022 Oscar Best Picture winner, Everything, everywhere, all at once, was an unexpected success. It picked up six other awards, including one by Michelle Yeoh for Best Actress. This absurdist comedy-drama combined elements of surrealism, science fiction, fantasy, martial arts and animation and was described by The New York Times as a “swirl of genre anarchy”. Evelyn Quan Wang, the Chinese-American immigrant character played by Yeoh, found herself dealing with multiple versions of “reality”. Even as she deals with the US tax authorities, she discovers her need to connect with parallel universe versions of herself to prevent a powerful being from destroying the multiverse.
