An Astounding Beauty of A Film

Rating: 10/10 (28 October 2012)

What can you write about a film that makes you laugh, keeps you guessing, puts you on that edge of your seat, and riles your soul with the gracious magnificence that is usually only captured in such literary epics as this film is based. Let me first start with the soundtrack, for this, upon everything else, is certainly a grander type of music, epic in its scale, and moving by itself. The music that underlies this film is as powerful and amazing as each segment.
Let us look at the lives of these men and women, drawn to and from each other time and time again, some as tragedies, some as victories, some as beautiful and gorgeous renditions of purpose and grandness, all in life, all in the recurring pebble thrown into the pond causing ripples, time and time again, through time and history.
What grace and beauty... oh what wonder and power lives in these stories that make a film that is as beautiful as beautiful as a Cloud Atlas might be.
You have the story of Adam Ewing who wants to get home to his wife, while dying upon a ship, and making a friend. The story of a musician determined to create something beautiful writing to his love of this journey. There's the story of a reporter drawn into a story she never intended to discover. There's the story of an old man whose forced into a retirement home that seems to be right out of the psych-ward of One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest. There's Sonmi whose story is one of revolution. And there's a final story for which is difficult to describe as nothing more than a futuristic Apocolyptica.
I know of no movie with such gall and no movie with such a wallop of suspense and perfected editing that you are never jolted, but, easily moved from laughing to sitting at the edge of your seat to crying to smiling to feeling an overwhelming sense of wonderment and life.
I will be seeing this movie again. I will be buying this movie when it comes out. I loved this film completely. It was top notch. A+++ You will enjoy it.