Comments on: Mr. Nobody Untangled, Decrypted, and Explained

By: Norma Perez

Norma Perez — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 06:52:17 +0000

Taylor Holmes, thanks for your analysis. I wanted to reply to Bambi above, she mentioned she didn’t understand the argyle part of the movie. “Most argyle contains layers of overlapping motifs, adding a sense of three-dimensionality, movement, and texture. Typically, there is an overlay of intercrossing diagonal lines on solid diamonds.” Which makes complete sense in the context of the film. I just saw it for the first time and wanted to read others’ interpretations of it. As some might already know, the purpose of art is to emit a reaction, response, or discussion, which this film obviously achieved, even years later. I see it as a success, in other words. “Mr. Nobody,” also reminded me a little of the movie “Sliding Doors.” I thoroughly enjoyed this, and may watch it again to see if I missed anything.

By: paul.m

paul.m — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 02:03:26 +0000

i finally watched this – after i saw another film that dealt with multiverse and choices (‘everything everywhere all at once’). i have to say, i found ‘mr nobody’ a much more intellectually and emotionally satisfying treatment. i know why: stripped of the eye-candy cgi, flying fists and blazing bullets, you can get to the flesh and bone of our existence. no super heroes here, just normal people doing their best to live meaningful lives under circumstances that can sometimes be only be described as horrific. what *are* the right choices, and how *are* we supposed to make them when we don’t have all the facts? surely someone with foreknowledge of events would know, right? the answer is no, not even then can we know what the ‘right’ choices are. as the late, great anthony bourdain put it: ‘if i believe in anything, it is doubt. the root cause of all life’s problems is looking for a simple f*cking answer.’

By: Micaela Legleu

Micaela Legleu — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 04:19:22 +0000

I just found this movie abs grateful i did! Thank you for a great read!

By: David

David — Fri, 25 Nov 2022 02:08:31 +0000

If we consider string theory and infinite possibilities or timelines, his ability to remember all possibilities would be a gift if there was the big crunch for the ultimate do over to island hop to different paths at each critical divergent point. Imagine life is like a video game with a story line and auto saves before a death. You play till you die at a point, then you are revived to learn from that mistake to proceed till you are challenged and die at at a later stage.From there the process of dieing and reviving continues till you reach the final point and when the game. At each death is a point where the game ends in own timeline. So imagine with his ability to retain the multiple memories of each timeline, with the big crunch, he starts from the end but works his way back to the beginning making the right decisions for the ideal path he wants. It is like that maze game as a kid you used a pencil to find your way to the end, but now you start from the end and trace your way back now that you know where to go and you. So his third option is a redo on the right path of his ideal life with Anna after seeing how to get there learned from the memories of multiple paths.

Also it touches on whether our reality is a simulation from some kids imagination.

By: Taylor Holmes

Taylor Holmes — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 05:25:02 +0000

I love wandering by long lost posts like this one and seeing the comments going strong… so fantastic. I’m definitely completely out of the loop on this movie. I’d need to watch the movie over again – and read the flow diagram, and all the comments to catch back up again. But it sounds like the internet denizens here have this conversation well under hand. keep it up!

By: Bambi

Bambi — Sat, 12 Nov 2022 05:03:51 +0000

To the person who wondered how Anna found Nemo in the end:

Nemo was waiting at the lighthouse for Anna’s return to their special meeting place. It appears that he waited a long time and even became homeless in his unwavering commitment to wait for her. When Anna finally does come to the lighthouse, she doesn’t recognize him until their eyes meet.

The argyle section of the film is what I don’t really understand.

By: Taylor

Taylor — Sat, 05 Nov 2022 16:41:34 +0000

They there Bob,
I didn’t take anything you said critically at all. They are all interesting ideas. Personally, I’ve come to find the conveniences of these quantum possibilities as attempts at loopholes – moral scapegoats if you will. Imagined “freedoms” cto the moral obligations we perceive are locking us down in this life. And as a literary device they are intriguing. But I think they all jumped the shark with Everything Everywhere All at Once. Just a personal/editorial opinion there. Nothing more.

I do think you are right though. That he actually experienced all of these possibilities… or at least think that that’s what the movie was intending to communicate anyway. But there are massive flaws in this sort of literary devicing of these possibilities. Let’s say that’s true. For Mr Nobody, for you, whomever. Your seeing these possibilities? Choosing along these infinite paths? That literally makes you God. Or god. At least a very powerful Demi-god anyway. And that is what these strands of possibility are striving for. Vaulting ourselves past our limitations of selection and another single selection and another contained single selection. To a being capable of seeing beyond a single selection. To see everything at once. It’s a play at godness. At least that’s how it feels to me. And I’m sort of over the multiverse’s conveniences and the imbuement of these powers on any Tom Dick or Harry…

But I get it.

By: Bob

Bob — Sat, 05 Nov 2022 16:03:26 +0000

Thanks, I enjoyed your thought provoking take on this great movie. I have a couple of ideas that differ from your explanation that i thought I’d share with you as good for thought. Please don’t take this as criticism, but rather just me sharing the way i understood it. To start, I don’t think he was imagining any of it. In the many worlds understanding of quantum mechanics, it’s not that you make a choice and the timeline expands from that decision and one outcome happens and one doesn’t. Both outcomes literally happen. All of the outcomes literally happen. We just feel like we only experience one of them because the universe splits and a copy of us goes down each path. These paths are separated by those extra diminsions they mentioned which make us feel like we are in only one timeline, but this is an illusion caused by the fact that we can’t consciously move in the extra diminsions, but the other universes are real concrete physical places not constructs or imaginations. Since his “memory” of the future was not wiped he remembers everything that will happen to him… This includes all of the possible timelines because all of it really did happen to him (or rather “will” happen to him). He eventually dies in each and every timeline, but for him, the “universe” ends when his longest lived timeline dies at 118. He can’t remember past that point. I don’t think the movie is saying everyone’s universe ended or ends, i think it’s saying that the only universe we as individuals can experience and create meaning from is bounded by two temporal events, our birth and our death, but that there are infinite possibility between those two points. Nemo remembers them all, and understands holistically that they all have exactly the same amount of meaning because they all literally happened in the multiverse. The meaning of his life is the sum of the meanings of all of the timelines and can’t be reduced to the meaning of value of any one of them. He obviously can’t tell all of the infinite stores to the journalist or to us, so he’s telling us a selection of the events which are interesting and illustrate the diversity of the infinite possibilities in an interesting way. As a way of making this point. I think that the message the narrator is trying to ultimately convey is that the meaning of life is love. Not the specific form it might take for you or me, because it can take infinite forms or paths, but the sum of the value or meaning of life we experience is what we learn about love’s joys and about love’s sorrows between the beginning of the universe and it’s end, which are our births and our deaths.

By: Just Tony

Just Tony — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 01:50:59 +0000

All roads will eventually lead you to where you are headed. Death is not a conclusion, it is the end of a dream. Hindsight is a perfect Heavenly existence.

If you ever played on a pool table the possibilities are seemingly endless.

We are a figment in a simulation and you will find the happiest day eventually.

This is my final analysis of this film. Watched it when it was released, tomorrow will be my 68th year of dreaming and this what seamed the most plausible explanation.