Stunning, a masterpiece.

Rating: 10/10 (27 October 2013)

It took me a very long time to see this movie. I work in a DVD-rental store after Uni and people kept coming in after renting Cloud Atlas and while some feedback was positive a lot of people told me they found the film confusing. 'Didn't get it' was a comment I heard quite a lot. Today I finally watched the film and I was utterly mesmerized. I understand, I think, the trouble some of our customers had with it. Overthinking. It is confusing. It is also spellbinding, visually stunning and brilliantly acted. I'm quite certain I didn't fully get it either. Gonna have to watch it again. This movie is a philosophical journey. Karma, reincarnation, the immortality of love and the enduring human soul. Strangely, it rarely bothers people to let some inane, redundant action film simply wash over them. But that is precisely what one should do with this film. Allow it to wash over you, through you and into you. Let it slip you away and wonder at what and who we are, were and maybe one day will be.