If God created the world, how do we know what things we can change?

Rating: 3/10 (27 December 2014)

"Cloud Atlas", despite its secondarity (reviews nodding to "The Fountain"), New Age filling (profane doctrine of karma and reincarnation, shamanism, eclectic mixture of religious stamps, Gnosticism, and so on.) and disparity of the story lines, quite suddenly drew my attention. What makes this movie interesting? Its partly Mighty Hollywood level plot, with confrontations, special effects and a happy ending in spite of all odds. But this alone is not enough - any average Hollywood product is full of such stuff.
In my opinion, bias adds the "nerve" to "Cloud Atlas". In fact, to whom if not to himself Larry Wachowski once asked the question sounded at the beginning of the movie "if God created the world, how do we know what things we can change, and what things must remain sacred and inviolable?", while trying to become Lana Wachowski? Did he asked himself, "Do I have a right to change my nature and become a woman"?
Well, if you have a passionate desire to do something, rationalization comes into battle designed to justify any passion. What do main villains in "Cloud Atlas" say? "There's a natural order to this world. And the truth is this order must be protected". So God, who created the world and natural order of things is also a villain. If Creator is bad (as, for example, the creators of the "fabricants"), you just need to break his rules.
"All boundaries are conventions, waiting to be transcended" - this "great discovery" reveals to us positive heroes of "Cloud Atlas". "Voila!" - Larry exclaims - "my desire is not only justified, but noble - almost like Solzhenitsyn battle against totalitarianism" - and he becomes Lana.
Still, an amazing tool, the human mind - with a strong desire it can introduce to you the blackest darkness as the brightest light, and any lie as truth. Of course, this will only happen in your solipsistic consciousness and, in extreme forms, will lead to mental illness - but who cares if you really really want?
To what in the end mankind and main characters come? They dirtied the Earth and flew to foul a new planet, to reborn again and again for a mindless rebellion.
In general, "Cloud Atlas," is quite dull, if not primitive movie, but I must pay tribute - it may be quite fascinating for the general public because of its seductive Gnostic pathos, behind which lies a personal tragedy and a personal search of a man who is lost in the darkness and wants present it as a light.
3 out of 10