Did I miss something?

Rating: 8/10 (24 February 2013)

Did I miss something? Maybe I did, but maybe thats the point, maybe this movie is an all you can eat buffet and you take from it what you want. Complexity walking sideways down a linear path that leads to where you were always never headed. Its like the film makers took a thousand piece puzzle and delicately cut each piece into smaller bits, tossed the lot into a blender then calmly placed each bit on the table randomly. The pieces fit together and the picture is complete, but the image in front of you doesn't matter anymore, watching it all unfold is the joy.
For me, great movies leave me feeling different afterwards. Somehow they touch my life and I am no longer who I was, even if this feeling dissolves after a few hours I can't go back to the world I was in before. I didn't feel like this after Cloud Atlas, I felt it most the way through.
The film is just shy of 3 hours but you won't notice thanks to the perfect tempo and structure. You will not rest, you will not desire rest, you will saviour every scene as if it's the last. The characters are brilliant and the dialogue is varied and important. The score. So much happens that I can barely recall half of it, no doubt snippets will find my thoughts throughout this week. I'm going to bed after writing this in the hope that my subconscious makes sense of the things my conscious could not.
Will your life be changed after watching this? No, of course not... But if like me, you long for that abstracted personality inside you to breathe life into you once more, this film has, well, bags of it!