So I've watched snippets of the movie Cloud Atlas, which is arguably one of the best movies I've ever seen. Maybe snippets is the wrong word? I've seen large portions of the movie, basically the entire thing, just not put together. I mean, until a few days ago, when my brother convinced me to watch it. And it's a really good movie.
Favorite Quote? : "All boundaries are conventions, waiting to be transcended."
For those of you who haven't seen it, please do as soon as possible, but in case you don't have the patience to sit through a fully three hour movie, heres a summary. A bunch of people in different times and different worlds and places and situations, are all jammed into one movie. They use all the same actors throughout every single one of the scenarios. It's a bit scary. So yeah, thats the movie. It's kind of hard to explain actually. In fact, it's a really incomprehensible movie. I mean, collectively, this is about the second or third time I've seen this movie, and there are a few things that have bothered me each time.
"This world spins by the same unseen forces that twist our hearts."
This statement bothers me a bit, because for one thing I don't understand it, but it was in one of the pivotal scenes with Susan Sarandon and Tom Hanks, in the future, but I don't get it. Well I mean I get it, but I don't get the connotations that come along with it. Okay, no I definitely don't get it. And the whole dialect Tom Hanks and Halle Berry use, I mean, what was that? Like abbreviated English or something? It seemed stupid to me. And why did the good people have to die, like the Chinese robot girl? Well, I mean obviously she had to be a martyr but couldn't her and that Chang guy have lived happily ever after in their own time, instead of in the story about the man who bonded with the slave, and said slave saved him from a greedy doctor sort of looking Tom Hanks who was poisoning him? And how was Sixsmouth still alive in 1973 California? That was the thing I really didn't get at all.
But the thing that bothered me the most was this repeated phrase. Like, it was one of the only cohesive pieces that spanned throughout the entire movie.
"Our lives are not our own. From womb to tomb we are bound to others, and by each crime and kindness we birth our future."
After I heard that for about, say, the fifth time, I realized something. This movie wasn't about action. It wasn't about futuresque, or past worlds. It wasn't about huge fight scenes, it wasn't about sex. It wasn't about sticking it to the man, or fighting for what you believed in, no matter the cost. It wasn't about any individual character, or person. It wasn't even about the choices you make, and how the choices connect us all. I began to realize that it was about one singular thing, and the triumph of the ending scenes completely convinced me of this. Because at the bottom of it all, the movie Cloud Atlas was about one very important thing.
It was a love story.
"And thats the true true."
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