"Cloud Atlas"
I was really amazed by this movie. FIrst third or maybe even half of it I was pressed into my chair thinking of how to reply politely to the student who'd advised it to me as, it seemed to me, that a good film-maker filmed a truly ridiculous chaotic, overly cheesy bunch of plotlines just to prove -the obvious (well, at least to me) fact that reincarnations do exist.
But this is the strange phenomenon of the first impression... Which isn't profound. Because, as the movie went on, I was absolutely moved and it seemed one of the best movies I'd ever, ever watched. I couldn't really explain it's magic... But suddenly plotlines started to make sense, and the movie, little by little, turned into one of these masterpieces (like "The scent of a woman" is) where the authors... make you want to be good. And the chaotic plotlines formed a melody that I still hear. It is powerful.
It was exactly like music that, at a certain point, carries you away, and, by the end, you're left all different - and with a new feeling. You see, that it changed something in you.
I wondered whether it was purely my own impression, but that evening, when I was visiting my students, I discussed the film and I saw that it produced the same impression. By ideas and by astonishment that it leaves in the end, by the desire to change.
Somehow, it is about wanting to turn your face toward Light, as we felt with my students. To pursue this direction.
I find it one of "educating" movies, which you have to watch while becoming a decent human being, I will certainly recommend it to my other pupils.
But this is the strange phenomenon of the first impression... Which isn't profound. Because, as the movie went on, I was absolutely moved and it seemed one of the best movies I'd ever, ever watched. I couldn't really explain it's magic... But suddenly plotlines started to make sense, and the movie, little by little, turned into one of these masterpieces (like "The scent of a woman" is) where the authors... make you want to be good. And the chaotic plotlines formed a melody that I still hear. It is powerful.
It was exactly like music that, at a certain point, carries you away, and, by the end, you're left all different - and with a new feeling. You see, that it changed something in you.
I wondered whether it was purely my own impression, but that evening, when I was visiting my students, I discussed the film and I saw that it produced the same impression. By ideas and by astonishment that it leaves in the end, by the desire to change.
Somehow, it is about wanting to turn your face toward Light, as we felt with my students. To pursue this direction.
I find it one of "educating" movies, which you have to watch while becoming a decent human being, I will certainly recommend it to my other pupils.