FREE ON CINEGEEK.DE Cloud Atlas

You watch Cloud Atlas once, you try again. Then you look at him a third time: A mystery wrapped in a mystery surrounded by a secret. Meaning: Even after three passes you have not understood anything. You may not even succeed in getting from one moment to the next. And already you are in the middle of one of the most ambitious projects ever shot! Impossible to explain something that is beyond logic! We learned this in school: you look for the explanation IN the work of art itself, but it's best to look outside the work of art. When you start conjuring up parables for the works of world literature, I would always answer: "And why can it not be a narrative in itself? So Cloud Atlas provides six stories set between 1849 and 2346. The same actors appear in different roles, embodying different race/gender/age. Sometimes you wonder; is it really Tom Hanks, Halle Berry or Jim Broadbent? But that doesn't really matter. Each segment serves as a transformation of the previous story. The same birthmark appears in each segment. Or the same? All lives are connected by the longing for freedom. I think this is the recurring motif. The one story consciously refers to the inside of the other. How's it going? I'm sure I'm not. It wouldn't help either to list the different characters (of the same actor). Following the motto, here Halle Berry plays an investigative journalist during the 70s, there Tom Hanks plays an old man. Such a kind of timetable would still confuse you. The best thing to do is to follow the direction of Lana Wachowski, Tom Tykwer and Andy Wachowski - and afterwards try to discuss what you've seen with other geeks. This is exactly what I experience in our video store and it never ends successfully. Some will refer to Freud, others desperately hope to solve the mystery. As if Cloud Atlas is just a mystery. For my part, I for one simply gave up trying to force the events into a logical pattern by the third run at the latest. Clouds do not follow a logical principle. But you will hardly find another film that conjures up the magical qualities of cinema as fascinatingly as Cloud Atlas! Finally a movie that breaks the shackles of continuity and allows its actors to shoot completely free! If you yourself accept this degree of freedom of NOT being able to explain everything, then you will understand that the wisdom of the old man staring into the flames of fire does make sense. Please combine with science fiction puzzles like "2001", "The Fountain" and "The Tree Of Life" - your video store advises you.