The lines are almost familiar.
Do not forget, often recall. Suddenly, he said: All the encounters in the world are reunions after a long absence...
When he said that, we were watching the movie "Cloud Atlas", which was the right scene.
Cloud Atlas tells six stories. The people in the story are related to each other, connected to each other, and inextricably linked to the previous and next stories. Whether you say it is past life or this life, or blood inheritance, not every encounter is just a reunion after a long absence. In an old Chinese drama, Baoyu first saw Daiyu, her eyes were fixed and bright, saying that this younger sister had seen it before. When Liang Zhu first met, the wall immediately smiled as if they knew each other. That's what it means.
(1)
There is a comet mark on the chest of the lawyer of the slave age. The voyage diary he wrote while sick was seen by the composers during the First World War. He said: Reading half of the book is like a love that stopped halfway.
The composer has a comet marking on the back waist. He used the vitality of life to compose the "Cloud Atlas Sextet". The composer said, "There are several movements that I imagine while writing... We meet again and again in different lives and different times." Decades later, a black female reporter found the record and was fascinated and stupefied.
The female reporter has a comet mark on her shoulder. The story of her struggle for truth and evil was written into an autobiographical novel "Full of Old Fist" by the neighbor's child when she grew up, bringing considerable profits to the old publisher.
The old publisher living in 2012 also has a comet mark. He has countless weaknesses - lying, greed for money, cowardice... In the movie, he blames cowardice and hesitation on the characteristics of the family. But he yearned strongly for freedom, and for the sake of freedom, he tore up all his cowardice, desperate, and finally wrote an autobiographical book and retrieved his childhood lover. The autobiography became a classic business card and passed on to Zhou Xun in the future era.
Zhou Xun had no comet marks, so her death came quickly.
The one with the comet mark was Hoshimi, who was blocked by the collar around her neck. Xingmei went from being ignorant and obedient, driven by society, to being infected by Zhou Xun, and infected by the passion for freedom in classic movies. A long section has been deleted from the mainland China introduction - in that part of the plot, Xingmei read, read, read voraciously, drawing nourishment from the countless books and stories of human beings' precious thinking. From the publisher's biographical film, to find Solzhenitsyn's freedom and truth, to take the initiative to spread the truth, even if he says goodbye to his life. As in the stories of many saints and fairies circulating today, Xingmei became a goddess and was worshipped by primitive people who returned to the primitive people at the end of the world, and became a spiritual pillar for the survivors of the primitive people.
The Aboriginal survivor is Tom Hanks, whose comet markings are more visible on the back of his head than anyone else. He is proclaiming the theme of the whole movie:
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.
Our lives are not our own, we and others People are closely connected, past, present, every evil deed, every good deed, we conceive our own future.
Fear, Belief, Love. Phenomema that determine the course of our lives. These forces begin we are born, and continue after we die.
Fear, Faith, Love. These all determine the direction of our life. These energies exist before we are born and continue after we die.
(2)
Life is always like this.
encounter.
Variety.
predicament.
Choice and resolution—or and end.
The end is just another beginning.
Just like a symphony, how to compose and perform is inseparable from the three modes of presentation, development and reproduction.
In "Cloud Atlas Sextet", the six stories are simultaneously encountering these changes and choices.
Lawyers in the slave era, musicians in the 30s and 40s, female journalists in the 60s and 70s, contemporary publishers, replicators in the future, natives in the doomsday.
No matter what era you are in, even if the people and things you are facing are different, the situations you are facing are the same.
We can infer that our inherent inferiority complex, cowardice and even escapism and covetousness and laziness all come from the characteristics of the family, but we should not reject ourselves at every important moment, give up our own choices, give up on freedom and life and the pursuit of real life.
I really like the last shot of the composer on the bell tower, just as I like watching the setting sun stray into the sky, dyeing everything around me with golden edges.
Because of this, I suddenly remembered whether Tibetan Buddhism constantly encourages people to develop "renunciation", whether it is too extreme.
Life is so splendid, and even beauty and disease are intertwined, teaching people to leave, hard to go, and a life left behind by many regrets, probably the real one without regrets.
We close our eyes and can't face all the beauty, the great miracles created by human beings, the slightest touch of our hearts and the soul's pursuit of purity, elegance and beauty, and what is the purpose of seeking the pure land of Buddhism? The choice to escape from life and the possible consequences of facing the choice?
Another "Grandmaster" said: I met you at the best time, it was my luck. Too bad I don't have time. If you think about life without regrets, it's just a prank. If life really has no regrets, how boring it would be. Mr. Ye, to be honest, I have you in my heart. It's okay for me to tell you this, it's not illegal to like someone, but I can only do it until I like it...
"Cloud Atlas" doesn't say no regrets, but they don't think it's interesting to have regrets, because everyone has regrets, remedies, and calmness in the face of choices. This is your life, you can't choose a life without regrets, but You have a choice to modify your self and your inner needs.
Therefore, the people of each story are ultimately consummated.
The lawyer found a doctor at random, and his life was almost ruined; however, with the choice of Yi Nian, the saved black slave became a new starting point in his life.
Composers choose to face their inner truth. For the pursuit of his heart, he ignores the attention of the world, the threat of hypocrites, and even does not care about the length of his life or the shortness of his life.
Female reporters are just insisting that the pursuit of truth is what everyone in the news has to face.
Publishers are a quest for freedom and bravery.
Xingmei has become the culmination of everything, and it is also the common pursuit of human beings.
The natives of the last days are a return to the pursuit of bravery and kindness.
(3)
"Cloud Atlas" was cut for 40 minutes in the cinema.
Said to be afraid that the people of the country would not understand.
When we watched the full version, Broad Bean still said that he couldn't understand the movie.
Because he spends 30% of his viewing time on his mobile phone.
He doesn't care whether he understands it or not, because any time we explain, he can quickly understand and integrate it into his own knowledge.
I don't know if he has no regrets in his life, what he faced with every choice he made.
At least, he chose courage and chose to face the world, these choices brought him a lot - I don't know if it brought a sense of security.
Buddhism speaks of suffering in this world - I understand the so-called "suffering", which is actually insecurity. Everything you ask for is suffering, because everything you ask for can't be obtained forever. No matter your life, age, illness or death, it will make you insecure. In this world, whether people pursue wealth, honor, or beauty, the so-called show-off and satisfaction in exchange are actually a sense of security.
This kind of ability may have been accumulated in his previous life and in the previous life. If he is still willing to write a memoir in this life, even in a future life, it will be a classic that inspires countless people.
(4)
When the trailer of "Cloud Atlas" came out, the images and words of nearly three minutes were still stirring in my mind. Recommend Jin Yao again and again.
After watching the movie, apart from the god-like editing and magical makeup (please see the click of "Cloud Atlas"), the excitement brought by it is too much.
After all, all the stories and truths have already been explained.
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