Cloud Atlas

I have just finished watching Cloud Atlas by the Wachowski brothers. It is a work of genius. The message of every drop counts reverberates in a soul changing, magical tapestry of stories from the future, the past and the present day. The interwoven birthmark of a shooting star may not even be real but it signifies a status quo changer, a visionary, someone who goes beyond what is known, a single shooting star in a storm, a single drop in the ocean, a single grain of sand on the scales. I love that the actors who play the same roles over and over an over. The same roles in different stories of revolution, new ideas and new stories.

I am actually in tears. The message and method of conveyance is so powerful it has rocked me to my core and shown me true artistry at its finest. I never cry at movies but I guess there is an exception to every absolute. The threads of the characters expertly woven together through motifs and recurring themes makes a cloth of pure gold. My favourite quote has to be from the smallest of people in this film "Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future". A small person who gave voice to and was given voice by multitudes and changed the future forever. All it takes is one butterfly's wing flap to create a storm.

We are photons. Tiny pieces of energy so dense they became matter but only for a moment. Alone we are minute and we have very little effect on the world. Together, we can move mountains, boil seas, make animals go extinct but we can also stop borrowing our light to make our future darker. And that is a message worth spreading.