The first time I saw the movie Cloud Atlas, it was just because it was a commercial blockbuster. I was confused when I saw the trailer. Why did it seem like there were several actors involved all the time? Acting. So I went to the cinema to watch this movie in a fog, and was shocked.

Movie introduction and content summary:

"Cloud Atlas" (English: Cloud Atlas) is a science fiction epic film released in 2012, adapted from the 2004 David Mitchell The science fiction novel of the same name written by Er is co-produced by the Wachowski brothers (now sisters) from the team of "The Matrix" and Tom Tykwer ***, the director of "Lola Run" and "Perfume" Film, screenwriter and director. (Wikipedia)

In 1850, in the South Pacific, American notary Adam Ewing (played by Jim Sturgess?) was tortured by an unknown parasitic disease on a ship. He recorded it in his diary What I saw and heard; in 1931, in Scotland, the down-and-out young man Robert Frobisher (played by Ben Whishaw) recorded music scores for the music master, and was inspired by half of his travel diary to create the magnificent "Cloud Atlas" "Sextet"; In 1975, in California, USA, tabloid reporter Louisa Ray (played by Halle Berry) risked her life to investigate a nuclear power plant scandal. She was moved by an unknown piece of music in an old record store; In 2012, in London, England, the publisher Timothy Cavendish (Jim Broadbent?), who was imprisoned in a nursing home, carried a stack of documentary literature written by a female reporter, and planned to publish his "Prison Break Experience" was made into a movie; in the utopian future, Seoul, the restaurant waiter clone Xingmi-451 (played by Doona Bae?) began to form self-awareness and resist humanity. She watched a movie about flying over a nursing home in the human library. ; In the future after the destruction of civilization, in Hawaii, the indigenous shepherd Zachary (played by Tom Hanks?) is hostile to the prophet of high-tech civilization. The only goddess his tribe believes in is called Xingmei...?

Different characters, scenes and events change in time and space, but what remains unchanged is that each protagonist has a comet-shaped birthmark on his body. It is like the imprint of the eternal soul, continuing the spirit of resistance in human nature from generation to generation, and ultimately weaving it into a vast and dazzling cloud map. (Douban)

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Cloud Atlas shows us a vast reincarnation. This vast reincarnation itself is related to the fate that even the gods in Greek mythology cannot escape. It is also related to the fate of several reincarnations. The choice of six main characters.

The six related stories in a movie all have a theme of resisting fate. No matter what situation the people in each story are forced into, they are trying to resist their own destiny. .

"People pontificate suicide is a coward's act. Couldn't be further from the truth. Suicide takes tremendous courage."

People pontificate suicide is a coward's act. Couldn't be further from the truth. Suicide takes tremendous courage. , so wrong, it takes a lot of courage to commit suicide.

Among the six stories, I like the second and fifth stories the most.

Robert Frobisher's description of suicide in the second story also shows that he still chose to resist his hopeless fate until his death. And because of this, he was able to compose the legendary "Cloud Atlas" symphony.

"Past and present. And by each crime and every kindness, rebirth our future."

No matter in the past life or in this life, every evil deed and every good deed will be in the future. Reincarnation.

The fifth story is the awakening of clones in the context of cyberpunk. In fact, what is the essential difference between people who are bound to everything and no longer try to love and clones? Just because people stand in the position of gods in mythology, people begin to flout rules, create rules, ignore fate, and no longer fear. So he became rougher and more unbridled.

"In your Revelation, you spoke of the consequences of an individual's life replicated throughout eternity. Does this mean that you believe in an afterlife? No heaven or hell?"

Yours The point of "revelation" is that the consequences of individual lives will recur over and over again into eternity. Does this mean you believe in an afterlife? There is neither heaven nor hell?

“I believe death is only a door. When its closes, another opens. If I can't imagine heaven, I would imagine that door open. And behind it, I will find him there, waiting for me. My love.... I'm home."

I believe death is just a door, when it closes, another one will open, if I couldn't imagine heaven, I would imagine that door opening. Behind the door I'll find him waiting for me, my love... I'm home.

Human beings have obtained the convenience of life by oppressing clones, but they cannot believe that clones will actually wake up and attempt to resist human beings as "gods". So human beings sacrificed the ultimate weapon of death, but faith, choice, and goodwill always exist in the fate of reincarnation.

What Mu Xin said about fate above Greek gods and choices under cruel fate is itself the shining part of human beings, so a film like Cloud Atlas breaks and blends six stories together and presents them to everyone. The director also wanted to express the same meaning, just like the original "The Matrix".

Even if the individual is just a part of the torrent of the times, even if there is a destiny that cannot be resisted by the will and cannot be changed by the gods. Even so, even if this is really the case, the will still has the power of its own choice, and it is the brilliance of this choice that makes people successful.

The fate above God and the choices under fate make everyone successful, and make every story about friendship, love or faith. But everything is connected by the author into a vast epic story.

The last line of the movie ends my review of Cloud Atlas.

"This world has its own order, and those who go against the grain will not have a good end. This movement is destined to fail. If you join them, the entire family will be isolated. The best end for you is to be treated as a pariah and attacked. , be spurned, or even worse, be lynched, killed on a cross, what is this for, why bother, no matter how hard you try, it is just a drop in the ocean. ”

What is an ocean but a. multitude of drops?

Where would there be a vast ocean without numerous water droplets?

May each of us have the strength to fight against our own destiny and choose hard.