Cloud Atlas

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It's amazing how people are similar regardless of the passing of time. It strikes me every time that human instincts are just the same and we might be technologically more developed, know just a little bit more, either from experience or observation, but still, we commit sins of our kind. We hate, discriminate, we are inherently afraid of one another and these instincts we cultivate all the time. Cloud Atlas shows how struggles of each generation lead to a better future for the next one. When one door closes, another door opens. Films are a great way to show us past, present and future by means of images. They teach us that the past was not really that long ago and the future is not really that distant. Once we were a civilization where slavery, apartheid, tribal wars, the illegality of homosexuality was something to be dealt with on everyday basis. We change slowly, acquiring new information, accepting more differences. And hopefully, we will change and we won't allow winning those who are stuck in their basic human insecurities to hate, hurt and prejudice. A wise and beautiful film for an individual. If you want to make the world a better place, start from your own little universe. 

 



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On the nature of pictures

*Every Google image belongs to someone and this someone should be noted. However, if pictures are scenes from the film they most probably belong to owners of the film/producers. I use saved screens of the Google compilation of pictures, thus the pictures of pictures, which I take, cut and edit myself (as a derivative use). They are used for reviewing purposes (fair use), not for diminishing the films' profits by stealing what rightly belongs to them. Copyright is tricky, let's get used to it.