I normally do not review movies on principle. Who needs to read when there is a movie over the book? That idea is completely false, but the movie is different. This movie nothing like I have ever read or seen before, and at the same time it reminds me of everything I have taken in in these short 18 years. How can that be? I am not really sure either. Some times dear readers you come across a film, book, person, place, etc. that complete changes you. That you connect to, and leaves you crying even after you leave.
What else can be said about this movie besides wow. I don't know how to describe it to you dear readers. It was like some of the best books I have read and better than many of the books I have read. I should have stayed in the theater and watched it all over again. It had great plots, a magnificent theme, and relatable and recurring characters. All of the traits I love in a book some how managed to show up in this movie.
If you read carefully you noticed I said plots. Yes, there are many many plots you have to keep track of in the movie. Six plots to be more exact. They jump from place to place that it almost makes you sick at sometime. The thing is they are all connected. They are all connected to one main plot. They all connect. Which not so coincidentally is also the main theme. It draws lines over time and space connecting the characters in their different eras and worlds. All of the characters end up in the movies sub plots in some way. Again they are all connected. I have seen and read stories with the same thing, but it has never been done quite as well as Cloud Atlas.
I really have nothing more to say then that if left me looking in the mirror after and wondering if someone sometime looked in the mirror and saw the same face and made all of the same mistakes I am making and felling love with all of the same people I love and hated all of the same people I hate. If left me crying even now, an hour after movie was over. It left me wondering what was real. It really left me thinking. Not just about the afterlife, but love and what life is about. What if the world is on a loop and the things happening now have happened before and will happen again? Can anything I do make a difference? Everything I do is essentially a drop in a very large ocean, and that makes all of my actions, accomplishments, and failures seem very small. But we must remember that the ocean is made out of many drops.
Lindsey
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