Begins with a Chinese immigrant family running a laundromat as they face an IRS audit (it’s a Tax Day movie!) and family troubles.
Then, uh, some stuff happens, it goes insane, then basically tries and succeeds to fulfill the promise of the title. It’s a hyperactive exploration of post-modern mumbo jumbo that literally attempts to solve the meaning of life. It is not interested in subtlety or restraint.
Oh, and it’s also a Kung fu film and Short Round is in it.
Yet despite its wild excess, I wanted more heft. It wants to explore a lot of ideas, so I wish it did so in a way that connected more to actual thinkers of the past. Its approach is thoroughly of this current moment—hyper meta, secular, and narcissistic. Its conclusions are hasty and emotion-based. And they’re not particularly...