Agenda II

film 5 of 6

Cloud Atlas

Tweet Review by Dean Duncan Aug 29, 2014 @deanduncan63

Saw #CloudAtlas. It’s actually a lot like D.W. Griffith’s Intolerance (1916), spliced w’ Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Regarding the former, the Wachowskis survey oppression …

… (revisiting and elaborating on The Matrix, contemplating hegemony, etc.) & resiliency through the ages. As for the latter, they’re deeply skeptical about essences (times & places, genders & races) …

… Nothing’s fixed, they’re saying, & everything changes. Except liberty, and love. Sincere, believing, stirring! Also, a bit, unfair…

… How? Their other constant is theo-fascism, or ready-to-kill fundamentalism. They make it fierce, & hateful, & yet another straw man …

… All this being the case, one presumes that this is Larry/Lana’s sex change movie.