'Everything at once everywhere', the Oscar that opens the TikTok era

Among all the statuettes that the Daniels' film has won, the one that truly reflected the impulse that

gives cinema to enter the 21st century (a door that

was the one for best editing, work for which Paul Rogers has been awarded.

Because the thousands of stories that intertwine in the film —which premiered a year and a day ago at the SXSW festival, when no one could even guess this happy ending at the Hollywood Academy Awards— appear superimposed, subordinate, chained, you continue... And with increasing speed, at a rate like the one that triumphs on social networks, in TikTok videos, in a different language, completely removed —neither better nor worse, different— from, for example,

debtor of the 20th century.

The Oscars may begin to interest young audiences not by changing the gala (which was boring, bland, gray, like a Band-Aid in the year 1 post-slap) but the movie that wins.

And, without their more than 9,000 voters probably intuiting it, the triumph of

is the winning card.

For the first time, a superhero film (and the second for science fiction, if we consider The

has obtained the main award.

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The original 'Everything at once everywhere' breaks the Oscar schemes and wins seven awards

Everything at the same time everywhere

speaks of the multiverse, normalizes new sentimental relationships, clearly explains the emotional conflict of emigrants, who feel as strange in their adopted land as they feel far from their place of origin.

It illustrates the estrangement that the modern world produces in veterans, delves into the infinite possibilities of the multiverse with only a 13 million-euro budget.

Only a team of nine people worked on its digital effects —two of them, the directors— who had not previously done any similar work.

It has grossed $106 million worldwide, a bounty as staggering as its seven statuettes.

This Oscars journey into the multiverse has ended with Indiana Jones' embrace of Tapon four decades after they found themselves on an elephant, now on the stage of the Dolby Theatre.

There are millions of ideas bubbling in

Maybe too many, because the movie is long, but they are all brilliant.

A film has triumphed in which two stones talk, in which two women with sausage fingers fall in love and kiss, in which (auguring the future) the evil version of the daughter metamorphoses into an Oscar statuette.

Ke Huy Quan hugs Harrison Ford during the last award of the night. CARLOS BARRIA (REUTERS)

For many critics,

leaves behind a cinema like

or

The German film won four statuettes;

Spielberg's biographical drama left empty.

That step forward for

in 2020 became, after the transition from

in 2021, a double step back last year with

Now yes, now the voters (and not Hollywood, because we should not confuse the members of the Academy with the

of the industry) throw themselves into the arms of the new language, of a generational and ethnic cocktail in their interpretive team, and give away a moment that makes the cynéfagos rejoice: a bond girl born in Malaisa who has two characters in the

universe and starred in a

classic

(Chinese sword and magic cinema) as

is today the best actress in the world.

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