“Our lives are not our own. From womb to tomb, we are bound to others, past and present.”
Sonmi-451
2012 · Lana und Lilly Wachowski, Tom Tykwer
Cloud Atlas
Six lives across five centuries, bound by deeds that ripple on. Cloud Atlas tells how everything is connected to everything. These lines carry the film, reimagined here as quiet loops.
“And by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.”
Sonmi-451
“What is an ocean but a multitude of drops?”
Adam Ewing
“Truth is singular. Its versions are mistruths.”
Sonmi-451
“I believe death is only a door. When it closes, another opens.”
Sonmi-451
“Freedom. The fatuous jingle of our civilization. But only those deprived of it have the barest inkling of what it really is.”
Timothy Cavendish
“A half-finished book is, after all, a half-finished love affair.”
Robert Frobisher
“All boundaries are conventions, waiting to be transcended.”
Robert Frobisher
“I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.”
Robert Frobisher
“You can maintain power over people as long as you give them something. Rob a man of everything, and that man will no longer be in your power.”
Sonmi-451
“Belief, like fear or love, is a force to be understood as we understand the Theory of Relativity.”
Isaac Sachs
“Yesterday, my life was headed in one direction. Today, it is headed in another.”
Isaac Sachs
Short quotations from Waking Life (2001) and Cloud Atlas (2012) under quotation right. All rights in the films remain with their respective owners. Some German and Spanish versions are our own translation. The visuals are original, freely interpreted scenes and contain no film footage.