Breaking the boundaries and getting new life--thoughts on the film "Cloud Atlas"

The first time to see the film "Cloud", just beginning to find that the film is in different time and space between the constant switch, feel the switch between the story is not natural, tell very confusing, look at the beginning of half an hour, a bit do not understand. But as we continue to see, the story of the film is becoming clearer, the main theme is gradually surfaced, and then all the stories are gradually into the climax, feeling that they are gradually boiling up. I think for such a big subject, the film's 3 hours is not really long, it is actually give the audience enough time to digest and think, this is a good movie should do.

The film tells the story of different times, spaces and characters, and there may be some connections between the stories, but I think the tone of my mind is to put the stories in tandem with some clues, rather than focus on the experience, understanding and thinking of the main themes of these stories. Do not know is to draw or salute, from this film we can see some other classic movie shadow, such as this switch story to express the theme of the technique is used in the "vulgar novel", the Primitive tribe resistance aggression is a little like "brave Heart", the old people to flee the nursing home to remind me of the "escape from the Lunatic Asylum" and " Shawshank Redemption, the gay composer's insistence on faith reminds me of the "sea Pianist", and the story of the clone's resistance to power reminds me of "the Clones." The stories are different, but they all tell stories of the weak who struggle to break the rules that the world has given it and fight against it.

Every human being is different, and such differentiation leads some individuals to be more powerful in some ways than some individuals, forming forces that can influence other individuals, which is known as the "strong." The "strong" creates rules that limit the development of other individuals in order to maintain their advantages or satisfy their desires. And it does so by some means to make other individuals accept these rules, to make them feel that it is supposed to be, and that it is natural. But the "weak" do not know, in fact, these rules are bound to their development, but they ignore these. Or some of them find these rules and boundaries, but lack the courage to break it, to change it, and that is what a real strong person should be. Or some people are trying to break the boundaries, but have not found a suitable method, so just blindly failed.

I think we as an ordinary individual, to see these boundaries is not difficult, to find a suitable way to break the boundaries is not the hardest, the hardest is to understand what is right, is to have the courage to break the boundaries, which means you may want to abandon the present stable and safe life, into the difficult, long struggle to go to, To abandon your wrong point of view, the wrong way of thinking, to believe that a new world is in front of us.

Will this struggle end in victory? The film tells us: Yes. Perhaps the struggle of the individual will fail, but this spirit and belief will continue and grow. Sin and desire are breeding, and truth is constantly being derived. In view of history, good and evil are constantly intertwined, and every dark Age will be terminated. In the film, the reproduction of "star Beauty" is only the story of their own struggle to quietly planted in the records of the heart of the seeds of truth.

Trust between human beings is not built through the various means of interpersonal relationships, but through the exchange of spirit and thought, only one person from the mental and ideological identity of you, he will truly trust you. And the truth itself is more persuasive than the most perfect lie. So as long as we persist in our right and uphold the truth, we are constantly making the world a better place, and we are sowing the seeds of truth to make more people see boundaries, break boundaries, and get new life.

Breaking the boundaries and getting new life--thoughts on the film "Cloud Atlas"