The Matrix influenced Everything Everywhere All at Once

Both films take an ordinary person told that the life they are living is one of many, and both express the revelation as a sudden download of skills, which is the specific borrowing worth naming. Evelyn's verse-jumping gives her, in an instant, the abilities of a version of herself who trained for decades, and it is staged the way Neo's training is staged: the character stops, receives, and then moves differently. The Daniels also inherit the Wachowskis' habit of putting martial-arts choreography into a film about identity. Where they diverge is the ending, which turns on family rather than on a chosen one.