Of course, Chen Chen was still a long way from achieving that step.
Even the movie's protagonist, Andrew, could only fly freely through the sky, move buses that weighed a few tons, and block the kinetic force of many bullets. He was still manipulating matter on a macro level. One would need to be extremely proficient to shift this power from the macro to the micro.
This was similar to the principles of global symmetry and local symmetry:
With global symmetry, it was just as it sounded. If all parts of an object could transform according to the same motion, this transformation was global.
As an example, it was like when every actor on a stage moved forward and backward in sync or they all performed the same action. To the audience, the actors were in harmony and everyone was merely a copy of one person. This would be a global transformation.
