"What is any ocean but a multitude of drops?"

Rating: 9/10 (1 November 2012)

I haven't seen a movie that inspired me to write a comment on it for a very long time. Finally Cloud Atlas has arrived which succeeded in balancing commercial goals, technology, make-up artistry and a good/complex story with the urge to have something done with a great deal of endeavor. It's an adoption by Wachowskis based on an idea about how mistakes repeat over time and the battle between good and evil emphasizing on basic kindnesses or cruelties across lifetimes.
People may criticize that there were too many messages poking the blind eye like- we are human, we are not alone, everything we do has an impact on others and on future, death is a door, we are all the same and at same value, how we live in circles, the fight between people in power and slaves etc. And yet they can find them all very simple and trivial but in fact, in the chaos that we call life makes us forget these things. In the end what movies are for if they don't move us and pinch us to remember something that is already with us. It is so funny that we think that in our time, in our ordinary lives, slavery is not a subject anymore. But every one of us is the ring of the chain as we live in a capitalist/colonialist system. So they may find this message simple but it is the naked truth.
Technically, It was hard to keep track of the sequence of the story since it tells six stories in six different time periods, using a handful of actors who often play a different role, sometimes across race, age, or gender lines—in each segment. But even separate stories in it was enough to move me. Maybe a second round could help to grasp it thoroughly. Though I left the theater with light-heartedly, ruminating the movie in my head. Maybe overwhelmed of the thought what to take away from it. And the music. I wish we could hear it more.
It's not an instant classic or you may not count it in top movies but it definitely has a character that does not allow you to see and forget right away.A good break amid all rom-coms and action movies. I recommend not to set the bar too high and do not wait for it makes sense and reconciles every story in it. Just watch carefully and I'm sure you will find something to take away with you.