New York private detective Duncan "Mac" MacLain is blind but has keenly developed all his other senses. He pursues his work assisted by his faithful guide dog Friday, his butler, Alistair, and his assistant, Marty. Retired actress Norma Lawry, an old friend, comes to Mac seeking advice. Her headstrong 17-year-old step-daughter Barbara, herself a promising actress, is enamored with her leading man in a small theater production, the much older Lothario Paul Gerente. Paul, who had once been Norma's lover, has convinced Barbara that Norma actually wants Paul for herself and has only married her father Stephen for his money. At Mac's urging, Norma tried to reason with Paul, but he insists that he loves Barbara and laughs her off. Barbara is equally disdainful of her and agrees to meet Paul for dinner that night at his apartment.
Norma's husband Stephen Lawry is a scientist leaving that night on a trip to test a secret invention on which he has been working for the government and the war effort. Worried about Barbara, she uses a pretext not to accompany Stephen and goes to the apartment. When Barbara arrives, she finds Paul's dead body and thinks that Norma has killed him, even though Norma insists that he was dead when she arrived. Barbara threatens to call the police unless she leaves Stephen. Fearing that a scandal will hurt him, Norma agrees. Norma then turns to Mac, who goes to Paul's apartment with Friday and Marty, only to find the body and the rug under it missing. A man arrives to replace the rug and Mac hides in a closet, overhearing a telephone call to Norma's number from "Gabriel" to "Vera." Mac accidentally gives himself away, but with Friday's help overpowers Gabriel, who refuses to talk. Mac has Marty hide him to keep him under wraps.
Norma returns to her country home unexpectedly, which discourages an espionage ring that includes her butler, Hansen, from breaking into Stephen's safe and stealing his plans. They have killed Gerente, who was also an agent, and hidden the body. Mac arrives with Friday at Norma's house and pretends to be her curmudgeonly "Uncle Mac" who has come for a visit. His blindness lulls any suspicions Hansen might have about him. Shortly thereafter, Barbara comes home from an "emergency rehearsal", called to get her out of the house by her director, Cheli Scott, who inveigles an invitation to spend the night at the Lawry home. Unknown to Barbara and Norma, Cheli is the ringleader of the spies. Cheli ordered Paul killed because his affection for Barbara was beginning to limit his effectiveness, and she immediately suspects Mac is not what he seems.
Gabriel's wife Vera, the Lawrys' maid, is also a part of the plot. When Gabriel does not return home, Vera becomes hysterical with worry. Mac secretly asks Vera to meet him in the greenhouse, using her worry about Gabriel as a lure. She is observed by the others, however, and is killed by Hansen before she can reach Mac. The spies cut the house's telephone wires so that Mac and Norma cannot call the police, and Cheli has Mac locked up under guard. Using his blindness as a distraction, Mac overpowers his guard and releases Friday out a window with instructions to "go home and get Marty." Stephen arrives home and Cheli threatens his family if he does not give her the final step in creating his invention, which was not in the safe. Barbara finally realizes how much Norma actually cares for her. Mac tries to stall for time, but is locked in the cellar. When Hansen goes to kill him, Mac has broken the light bulb and his advantage of total darkness helps him overcome the spy. Marty and Friday return with the police. When Friday is spotted by a lookout, Mac overpowers him and is saved from being shot by another lookout by Friday. After the spies are captured, Stephen and Norma are off to Washington, D.C., with Barbara remaining behind to care for her new "Uncle Mac."
？？？？？啥玩意儿？？？？？为啥要这么折腾？？？？九脸懵逼？？？头晕册那！堆砌各种梗，堆俩小时...奇奇蒂蒂堆迪士尼梗比这好看多了...感觉像是看了个加长版本rick and morty
想给六星，从未没看过这样气质的电影。也不知道为什么眼泪就哗哗掉了。它永远会在imdb250里。正常人脑子拍不出这种东西，它cult但又没有破坏娱乐语境，堆叠弥母与影像风格却又容纳归一最终大道至简。是须弥山，又是曼陀罗。
太累了，为什么做亚裔女性哪怕已经是宇宙里独一无二的超人还要听从软弱老公那一套love heals all的狗屁人生哲学，还要强行绑架下一代重复再重复这些bullshit mess；为什么荧幕上的挪威女性寻找人生就是去恋爱，为什么荧幕上的亚裔女性寻找人生比取经还难，还得拍成科幻片，到底是谁在恶性循环谁。Such a bullshit, fucking bullshit. Bullshit is all.
炸裂了！感觉好多年没看过这么敢飙的电影了！而且还居然是讲华人女性人生处境的。虽然内核伟光正到让我感觉过分保守没新意吧（也因此无法五星），但呈现的方式好炫，太多元素居然可以如此流畅地杂糅在一起，尤其可贵的是从中可以看到香港电影黄金年代的灵魂。最后触动我的完全不是女性故事本身（得承认这个女性故事的讲法还是太局限了），而是这种文化符号的融合。比较巧的是刚好昨天看了《寻龙传说》并中途放弃了，与这部相比较，同样是融合，就明显还是这部做得更生动，不那么符号化。不过的确也有一点点惋惜，这个故事到底也没敢对人心深究，所以你很难说讲述的是一个够诚实的故事——所以也说不上勇敢，虽然表面看着故事在讲的是要敢于去爱。
我脑子比较简单，可能就欣赏不了这种片子。但最大的感受就是：女人如果没有男人和孩子，人生会有多少种精彩到爆的可能性；无论哪条路，都比依附于一个全程围观老婆拼命、只会说“我全都看着呢，你做得太棒了”的老公强啊！
期待出现更现实更平实更老实的表达和探讨。
不知道为什么评分会这么高，明明各方面都很一般，演员都像是横店的群演，服装道具场景乱得一塌糊涂，剧情也是想一出是一出，一开始好像是要拯救世界，到最后竟然是最老套的亲子和解……不是以为扯上多元宇宙就一定会火吧？各种梗尬得不行，片子时间还扯得那么长，真是快坚持不下去了。60岁高龄的杨奶奶苦苦支撑，看着真累……
确实看得挺爽，但果然一口气泄在了后面的和解之路。爱的方式有很多种，偏偏又落进了那个纠缠不清的俗套里。原本期待剧情给出的答案能像它的形式风格一样新颖呢。
We're all small and f******king stupid...
从观影角度，内心毫无波澜，甚至有点闷；从鸡汤角度，不婚不育保平安~
很癫狂，很飞，很天马行空，很自由，玩得很开心，一路狂奔，拍一部顶十部，剪辑和表演的空间很大，很遗憾的是在情感上，尽管它打动了很多人，但并能完全没打动我，如果更聚焦在秀莲的个人挣扎上可能会更有力量吧，对我来说。这可能就是不加节制的副作用吧。
无法言喻的震撼感，不仅这是关于多重宇宙的平行世界线的世界观，也融合了华裔移民以及原生家庭，亲子关系夫妻关系各方面的一些思考，以及自身价值的结合。父女→母亲→女儿这些不一样的角色所蕴含的身份所代表的的痛苦以及快乐，太多令人深思的对白可能性，每个宇宙里面的背景，还有这出神入化的剪辑手法，上次震撼的还是《梦之安魂曲》真的太绝。
这电影的剪辑加情节处理一看就有问题啊，都明显压过故事本身了，导演能力明显不行，拍出来的成片思绪混乱，情节不知所云，人物表演造作，你们到底在吹啥？莫名其妙简直是
别和解了，，，很酷炫的形式包裹一个很土味的内核，，，我真的会谢
妈的，石头那段超爱的，可惜爱还是打败了虚无，设定居然能接近瑞莫，很不错，提前恭喜杨紫琼了，老公的角色演的也不错就是很多时候太成龙了，女儿是奥卡菲娜里的苏苏啊，可惜姥爷不太给力，差点意思。
我欣賞它讓中年亞裔主婦成為主角和對東亞家庭關係做出了探討的努力（略）等等等等⋯⋯但，電，影，本，身，實，在，太，老，土，了。從多元宇宙要素到無厘頭到致敬薈萃到畫面形式，沒有半點新東西，除了前面說的立意讓人敬佩，其他真的很難吹。
不知道该怎么去表达我对这部电影的敬意和喜爱，用表面看似如此错综复杂的结构去表现生活它痛苦而现实的一面。其实我们都明白，所谓多重宇宙，时间线错乱，任何一个节点的决策都会导致不同的结果，这般让人抓狂的设定的本质，其实就是我们日常所经历着的生活本身。成年人的生活，大抵就是这般琐碎繁杂无趣痛苦而让人抓狂的同时，仍旧偷偷留给大家去和它和解的机会。又想到最近看到的一句略微相关的鸡汤，说人生其实有两次，第一次是你我原本的生活，第二次是当你知道人生只有一次之后你开始拥有的人生。
太飞了。打戏有必要这么多吗。毫无价值的我刚好就是平行宇宙里的人们最需要的我，无限的失败中恰恰孕育着无限的可能性。好存在主义。哭了半小时。
垃圾片。莫名其妙。菜市场国粤英语大杂烩。精神病风水大师出品，不说人话。
嗑药嗑到无法抵抗虚无最后答案是回归生活，回归爱。“活着，吃饭。”
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