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[sunkissedfawn]

Sixsmith,

I climb the steps of the Scot Monument every morning… and all becomes clear. Wish I could make you see this brightness. Don’t worry. All is well. All is so perfectly, damnably well. I understand now that boundaries between noise and sound are conventions. All boundaries are conventions… waiting to be transcended. One may transcend any convention if only one can first conceive of doing so. In moments like this I can feel your heart beating as clearly as I feel my own and I know that separation is an illusion. My life extends far beyond the limitations of me.

[eyeswideshudder]

Cloud Atlas (The Wachowskis, 2012) (final 50 minutes)

[shadowgale96]

“My uncle was a scientist. But, he believed that love was real… A kind of… natural phenomenon. He believed that love could outlive death.” 

- Megan Sixsmith 

[blue-mint-winter]

Cloud Atlas is a pretty good film despite its not so good reputation (which is also a reason why I only watched it now and not back in 2012). What impressed me the most was how well it was edited. The movie simultaneously tells six stories from different time periods and genres, all connected through themes and characters. Normally I would have been annoyed with such frequent jumping from one scene to another and another, but instead of being jarring, Cloud Atlas achieved a nice feeling of fluidity. These jumps between stories are deliberate, not random, as if there’s a single thread going through space and time which we’re following. This is film editing master level.

Another enjoyable thing about this ambitious film is that the actors played multiple roles across the different stories. That certainly strengthened the reincarnation theme or maybe just the idea that times change but people will always be people. I personally really liked Hale Berry as the journalist Luisa Rey and Ben Whishaw as the tragic composer Robert Frobisher. The publisher Cavendish’s story was the most comedic and absurd, but it also had the most iconic scene of a writer/thug guy throwing a critic off a tall building during an award party for criticizing his book. It’s certainly going to stay with me for a long time.

I think Cloud Atlas is worth watching for how unique and well-made it is. It offers a different and interesting experience.

[lilithdahobbit]

Favorite Movies 2/???

Cloud Atlas (2012)

[watchwithmemichael]

[obrashir]

huh…. cloud atlas really is one of the greatest masterpieces man ever made both the movie and the book, isn’t it….

[corallapis]

Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell

[nondualreality]

I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I’ll be waiting for you there.

David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas (via notjustinspirationalquotes)

[qaz-451]

[quartermastercandlestickmaker-d]

I just read about how the book Cloud Atlas is different from the movie Cloud Atlas and my hopeless romantic heart is breaking 

no

no

This explains why there’s only one shooting star birthmark, they shall meet again but it’s not the same anymore. It’s not the same anymore. 

i can't 

i’m so sad right now Is it so bad wanting two hearts to belong life after life no matter what, no matter how many days and how many deaths and how many separations.  I believe it is not bad. 

[quartermastercandlestickmaker-d]

Mood: Ben Whishaw in The Cloud Atlas Cause of Mood : Ben Whishaw in The Cloud Atlas

[quartermastercandlestickmaker-d]

“ I believe there is another world waiting for us, Sixsmith. A better world, and I’ll be waiting for you there. I believe we do not stay dead long. Find me beneath the Corsican stars, where we first kissed.” - Robert Frobisher - Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell 

[helegris-blog]

[mona-the-monkey]

Cloud Atlas, 2012

[helegris-blog]

[jayfinch]

Cloud Atlas