The world is already over!

Rating: 9/10 (9 January 2013)

First of all try no to walk out of the theater after the first half an hour after the movies starts. If you'll give it a chance you will walk out of the cinema after 3 hours with a big "WOW" on your face. It's an amazing movies if you try to understand it. It's the type of film you can watch it over and over again (or at least twice - it's kinda time consuming).
Cloud Atlas is a series of interconnected stories from past, present and future revealing the nature of human kind, the mistakes and good choices, the cowardliness and heroism, the freight and courage, the bad and the good - in one word - the duality that lies in all of us. The characters in every story are also connected - a character playing in one story has another part in the next, but it's contoured and shaped in a way that reveals the human duality on one side, and the true and singular nature of the human soul on the other. You need to wide-open your mind for this movies as it unconventionally elaborates motifs like reincarnation or the collapse of humanity (by returning to cannibalism for example).
The picture begins and ends on the same set, in the same period of time - a very far feature where the last humans tries to get by on the single part of the earth left un-demolished. This set up is the main point where everything ends, where the grandfather tells the story of world to his grandchildren.
The title of the movies represents "The Cloud Atlas Sextet" written by Robert Frobisher, a becoming music composser. The Sextet will remain the main motif of the movie and will show up in the present as the best music ever written uniting generations of hundred of years and representing the everlasting immortality of the human spirit.
We can see how the future and the past are united and no matter the year we are in we can discover the same social perturbation like slavery and revolutions, fighting for you freedom or fighting for love. The evil, as love, in the human soul are eternal and a-temporary.
We can see a few individuals in this movie but so many characters (stay for the credits at the end). Every reincarnation has it's meaning if you watch really closely. Let's take the characters of Tom Hanks for example (the most prolific personage in the movie). We can see how he turns from a evil medicine man using his medical eduction not to heal people but to kill them, to a man of science who will risk his life to make a difference in the world for greater good, to a hero that fights the Devil and succeeded in defeating It even with some many victims on the long side.
In conclusion the movies tries to make us realize that even if it's hard to change the past and make a better future, it's not impossible. As Adam Ewing would answer to his father-in-law's remark: - You are just a drop in the ocean! - What is an ocean but a multitude a drops?