This post was created after a conversation I had with a fellow movie-lover, Shane Conner. The following blog reflects both his and my own views about the film Cloud Atlas.
If you haven’t noticed by the theme of my blog, I absolutely love movies and I love talking about them. This movie left me speechless. It was unlike anything I’ve ever watched, and honestly it is unlike anything cinema has ever produced before.
It’s about 6 different tales told simultaneously and that there is supposedly an interconnectedness between all of them (which, there totally is). If you’re a fan of things that raise more questions then it answers, then you’ll love it. I feel like anyone could talk about any range of subjects after watching that, like:
- how we constantly search for meaning and truth in life, even though the answers only remind us that really, we know nothing
- how love is something more than just a feeling
- how the every good and bad thing we do can echo across eternity
- how rather than trying to look for little coincidences in life and understanding them we should just enjoy it for what it is: beautiful and amazing
The slight interconnectedness between the stories is just enough to draw the some form of a conclusion between the separate lives, time and space. It gives you hints to many of life’s underlying meanings. You know, the ones that everyone in the world can relate to but not possible to be explained through words alone.
No two people are going to walk out of that movie and think the same thing, or catch the same clues, and for that reason alone I would recommend it. Also, read Roger Ebert’s review of it, because he summed it up nicely.
I would say for 9 bucks, it’s at completely worth it to be a part of a the visual, story-telling experience you won’t find in any other movie in theaters right now.
If anyone has seen the movie, what did you think about it? What did you take away from it?
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