There is a theory that we all were already someone in a past life, perhaps not even one. Surely every person at least once experienced the feeling of “deja vu”, which comes from the French expression “déjà vu” - “already seen”. In the daily movement, we sometimes stop, and we are visited by the thought: “Stop! It has already been with me. ” Why it happens? The answer can be found in the beautiful novel “Cloud Atlas”, which was written by renowned author David Mitchell and quite successfully made into a movie.
Plot
Below you can find quotes from Cloud Atlas, but before that, a little about the plot.
The novel "Cloud Atlas" consists of stories about six stories that have some kind of relationship between themselves in different time periods - past, present and future. In this case, another follows from one plot line, then a third and further. The author of the book himself explains this by the fact that the characters are, as it were, reborn. In each new period, the reincarnation of a character takes place.
The novel was filmed by directors Tom Tykver, Lana and Andrew Wachowski. Shown on screens for the viewer already in 2012, given that the book was written in 2004.
Cloud Atlas: movie quotes
The characters and their quotes will be indicated below.
Robert Frobisher is a young student at an English university who fled from there because he fell in the eyes of society because of his homosexual relationship with another student. Worked on the Cloud Atlas sextet. Episode "Letters from Zedelgem":
True suicide is a planned, measured and faithful business. Many preach that suicide is a manifestation of cowardice ... These words have nothing to do with the truth. Suicide is a matter of incredible courage.
A half-read tale is that love thrown halfway.
Phrases owned by Timothy Cavendish, an elderly publisher in the episode "The Last Judgment of Timothy Cavendish":
Freedom ... The hackneyed motto of our civilization. Only having lost it, you begin to understand what it really is.
- Do you have a conscience? “A couple of pills and a gin and tonic will help me forget about this.”
Critics - they are critics, too, to read books quickly, arrogantly and not particularly reading.
Sonmi 451 is a girl living in the future, where the population is divided into purebreds (which were born) and factories (cloned people). Factories were considered the lower social class and were constantly used as labor. Episode "Revelation Sonmy 451":
There is only one truth, any version of it is a lie ...
We are not the owners of our own lives. We are connected with other past and present. And every misconduct, like every good deed, gives rise to a new future.
Adam Ewing and Henry Goose are characters in the first episode of Adam Ewing's Pacific Diary. Where Adam is an American notary who arrived in one of the Pacific Islands to conclude an agreement on the supply of slaves to his father-in-law. He fainted, and Henry Goose tried to cure him, as Ewing thought. In fact, Goose wanted to poison him.
“I don’t even know what I would do if our paths did not cross.” - For starters, you would die.
Other quotes from the movie are no less interesting:
Detective’s first rule: a good lead leads to another lead.
Do what you cannot do.
The intruder is the intruder, even if he carries golden eggs.
The above quotes from the movie. In the next section, we propose to read quotes from the book “Cloud Atlas”.
David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas: Quotes from a Book
Robert Frobisher:
In a girl who appreciates irony, some depths must lurk ...
Sonmy 451:
... your environment is the key to your personality.
Nothing is more eloquent than silence ...
Joe Napier - Chief of Security at the Nuclear Power Plant in the episode Half-Life. The first investigation of Louise Rey ":
You underestimate the tendency of men to petty revenge.
Louise Rey is a journalist from the episode Half-Life. The first investigation of Louise Rey ":
All the time I forget that he died. All the time I think that he went somewhere on assignment and the other day will fly back.
Original and other quotes from the book:
Every conscience has a switch somewhere.
Despondency makes a person languish over lives that he never led.
Yes, aging is damn unbearable! Those "I" that we were, are eager to breathe again the air of this world, but can they ever get out of these calcified cocoons? Yes, hell with two.
Embrace your enemy to prevent him from hitting you.
- My name is Gwendoline Bendinks. “It's not my fault.”
Every rising sun ever sets.
Promises that you cannot fulfill are not hard currency.
Most phrases have a deep meaning, and you need to think about what this or that character really wanted to say. And in some it’s the other way round - the truth lies so much on the surface of the quote that it is simply hard not to notice.
Despite the sad, but at the same time exciting situations that occur in the story, the author does not get tired of motivating and even supporting with appropriate phrases, as if showing that not everything in life is lost. And even if lost in this one, you can definitely find it in the following, the main thing is to know where to start this search.
Film and book
As we already know, the movie Cloud Atlas is an adaptation of David Mitchell’s novel. In the film adaptation, they tried to keep the story described in the book to the maximum. But still there are several obvious differences.
In the film, periods are depicted a little differently. If in the book all the stories are described alternately, and in the end they return to the original episode, then in the film the stories are mixed up and alternately replace each other.
Another interesting point. In the book, each key character had a birthmark that betrayed him. In the film, a stylistic device was used, where in each story the actors repeated themselves, they simply had a different role in the next episode and make-up.
To this day, Cloud Atlas is one of the most complicated novels, with a rather complex storyline that needs to be closely monitored. As for the film, the viewer was shown a film adaptation of the novel, which, it seemed, was impossible to shoot.
We really hope that after reading quotes from Cloud Atlas, one of the best and most mysterious works, everyone will want to watch this beautiful movie or read a book.