Cycle the circle

Rating: 9/10 (13 July 2013)

What "CloudAtlas" means in word is a kind of map or encyclopedia of clouds, their positioning, movement, genre and so on So imagine yourself sitting under a tree in a sunny midday of summer looking into sky and daydreaming: visualizing with clouds and making shapes with them in your thoughts. Yes your mind and imagination plays an important role in this masterpiece, where we _maybe_ get an atlas of human's life through ages, a pattern that has been cycling and happening over and over again. Love is most bright passion. But passion itself is an ambition to concern in story. Let's take a quick look toward the story, 6 parallel lines in 6 different time of history happening. Writer (David Mitchell) experiences different genres and paints them perfectly in our minds and be honest, these three director did an astonishing job to illustrate it on cinema curtains. Peoples living life, in aspect of whom are fighting for freedom, and whom are resisting them. A never ending fight that happened over and over again, isn't it? Movie is so partial, so enigmatic. It requires consciousness and awareness along of watching, and in my opinion more than once watching. Story is not in a simple-single line that can be understood easily and by it I mean the layers beneath. There are different views and reaction toward "CloudAtlas" I've seen its name in best movies of the year, or even worst movie. It might be cause of a Movie with more material of soul, imagination, delusion and humanity is less wanted than "World Saving Hero Popcorns" like avengers so viewers with such a taste will not find a longer_than_2hours movie easy to watch in such a procedure. Cloud Atlas , in my honest opinion is a masterpiece. A phenomenon has took place in technical part of cinema industries, make ups looks like a joke, genres , colors, style, ages are changed, and THAT good you won't even be able to recognize the actor/actress! Movie is long, but tempo is fast, during movie many time you think "these are final scenes" but nope, you're wrong and there is another hour or even more to end! There's a lot to say, but I have to finish with only mentioning some of them. There are some ideas about plot, is it a story about reincarnation? Yes it might be. But in many of aspects, cycle isn't working perfectly at many parts. For example Tom Hanks on a doctor and as a man in post-future doesn't match. So with all signs of reincarnation I'm not sure if it's actually about it. The only pure bad-man in all 6 stories is Hugo Weaving which at the end turns out to be devil himself. So beside that everyone are in fourth and back of good and evil. Start at first story, is where Ewing breaks a habit and (in their opinion) goes a different way than natural order: he gives a chance to a black slave. Later on (at third story) we see a black journalist who is not against the natural order anymore. Furthermore we observe that so called "natural order" is totally changed, now white peoples are slaying each other and undoubtedly are uncivilized. But in same time, black peoples are ruling, they're civilized and technologically sophisticated but then they don't believe in infamous "natural order" they treat white peoples nicely and try to help them, and no, there's no slavery. So there comes a feeling, Ewing's decision _whether he sacrificed his life like Sonmi _ has took its place in history and affected next generations. Yes decisions matters. Many of us (including myself) believe that nothing worth sacrificing, not to be negative person, just being conservative and passive: "minding our own business is way of life in this planet". Story tries to prove it wrong. At future part (fifth story) there's a doubt in "Unanimity", they call themselves "Purebloods" and the original eastern peoples are called "Fabricants" now. The spot of master and follower has changed? World is upside down? Human's made Fabricants and now it's vice versa? What does it means? Even if we're living in a different planet (end of story), even if we're Fabricant and 'not-made by hand of god" even if we lived in our well-known world, with no matter of genre, color, nationality Freedom is same as what Ewing felt for Autua, So is love. Passion for truth comes in every aspect. You know the structure above is changeable but you won't be able to change the basin: changing the roots of humanity is impossible. But unfortunately fight between good and evil is permanent, as Taoism believes:"contrary forces of light and dark are interconnected and interdependent",and I would say this is the "natural order".