MOVIE REVIEW: My Philosophical POV

CLOUD ATLAS

A six-in one film, the title Cloud Atlas doesn't say much, except perhaps you're quick to deduce the word 'atlas' means globe. Yet the sheer number of themes and sub-themes portrayed in this extraordinary movie is powerfully poignant – a profound incision into the mind of man: why and how history keeps repeating itself.

Each of the six stories is the same in essence but set in different time, space and periods. Each story revealing that when we don’t see the truth, we feed ourselves with poison. Not being fully informed, not being knowledgeable enough, not willing to explore prevents us from seeing things as objectively as they are – and should I dare say – as they truly are.

The entire story shows unequivocally who the true savages, poisons and human eaters are: they are those who believe that they can take away another’s freedom by putting them in bondage – take away their land, their source of income, their identity, their individual and collective freedom, their resources and source of life, and they will capitulate. That is the chant these human destroyers live by.

The sub message of this story proves how so-called colonials, world powers, politicians, business men and dictators who crave for absolute powers and control are the poison who destroys the best in man. They are the ones who prevent us man from reaching his ultimate attainment.

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However, the key message is about self-freedom from deeply entrenched thinking that hold us down. For you to be truly free, you must takes steps to make that happen. It does not mean taking over the mind of others, neither does it mean trying to control people or how they think using the carrot-and-stick techniques to keep people subservient and docile. It means respect for the lines of freedom even when the meanings are as diverse as the race of mankind – not only in its nature but also in specific terms. We are after all not as individual as we like to think, yet one’s experience no doubt is unique to one.

In the end, we are all HUMANS; All of us from the same source.

Aristocracy, religious superiority, world powers, dictatorship are simply terms used by those drunk with the seedy quest for absolute power: that definition that makes them feel powerful in relation to someone else because they have accrued to themselves that aggrandized authority to take away another person’s freedom to express otherwise, so they can impose their whims on them.

The film asks these questions:

- Who do you think you are?

- How far will you go to fight for what you believe?

- What manner will you choose to fight this belief you hold strongly?

That last question is what reveals who you truly are. It is not so much the act as much as the process in which we went through to get to that point when we act.

The film explores issues on:

- Religion, faith and beliefs

- Medicine

- Sexuality

- Activism

- Freedom of rights (individual and collective)

- The power of choice

- Individual goals and actions that enhances a beneficial collective goal

- Ownership

- Exploitation

- Abuse

- Treachery

- Family bonds

- Politics

- Big business, ethics, values and practices

- Environmental degradation

- Cover-ups

- Psychiatry, mind control, the opium of the masses

- Bondage

- Love

- Integrity

And what is the morale of the 6 Stories in one?

That each generation has a moral duty to preserve the past, learn from it and take it to another level so that the torch they now hand over to the future generation is not flawed. We all have to live up to the best within us. Each successive generation must always stand for the axioms of truth, if truth is to triumph. That way, history does not cruelly repeat itself like it has done these past centuries. Otherwise it will continue to be: garbage in; garbage out.

Now that is how to use a movie to tell a brilliant story, a call to action!

So tell me, did you by any chance watch the movie or you’ve got your own movie experience to share?