Like so many movies, Cloud Atlas is about TEOTWAWKI, except that unlike Soylent Green etc it is not set in a specific time but spans some 6 centuries [another "eternal recurrence" of SIX].
It is unclear if the last scene on Mars is the end of humans but it IS clear [as in Avatar] that Earth has been abused to the extent it is uninhabitable [ie for humans, as we know it]. Also as for such movies the REASON for the end is a "contest" between running OUT of energy and pollution caused by that using up process.
It all starts [energy wise] in 1970s when we had the TWO "Oil Crises" ie 1973 [Israeli Issue] and 1979 [Iran Issue], both of which had America experience petrol rationing and realizing that the days were well and truly gone since America was self-sufficient in oil.
Cloud Atlas is very clever in juxtapositioning the two crises by doing a re-run of the 1979 events of the psy-op movie The China Syndrome which prophesiesed the 3 Mile Island Nuclear near disaster, but making the date as 1973. Luisa Rey is the facsimile of the Jane Fonda character, right down to the VW, and Isaac Sachs is Jack Lemmon character.
Our hero Luisa foils the Swanekke psy-op just as Jane did for the 3 Mile Island look alike, and it looks like the outside scene of Luisa and Isaac was filmed at Unit 2 of 3 Mile Island, which was never re-commissioned.
So once again Cloud Atlas brings actual history [rather than fiction], and other movies, into the story. But let's dig deeper.
Big clues are fusion engines and "rad levels being high"
Nuclear Fusion has been seen as the Holy Grail since 1950s but today the experts agree that IF it is ever to be a reality, that it is still 50 to 100 years away.
In 1973 Swanekke [ie same as 3 Mile Island etc] is able to effectively generate power via Nuclear Fission, but there are two downsides to fission, ie the 3 Mile Island issue [which came to be with Chernobyl] of disaster radiation as well as the radiation of the waste products of the fission process. And while oil reserves are well less than 50 years, uranium also has a use-by-date at about 200 years.
So what that all suggests is that the oil did run out, fission "took over" [where it could] and by the time it too ran out at The Fall [exactly 200 years away] it seems that the Prescients had developed fusion, BUT the damage had been done by the long term use of fission.
So the end message is that although fusion technology overcame the need to dig another oilwell or uranium mine, the waste products of those hundreds of years of use/abuse had produced the "On the Beach" scenario [except OTB was about radiation from a nuclear WAR rather than long term fission caused radiation].
The words said to Meronym, "every minute you are out there..." seem to suggest that these Prescients were the privileged few [Illuminati? - whatever] who lived in a type of cocoon with radiation control whereas the other 99.9% simply dies as in OTB. Similarly it seems Hawaii is the Australia of OTB where the radiation has a time delay in reaching that far [from America] but there is no doubt that survival there has a use-by-date [but local would not know that].
In between we saw Sachs was doing business in Korea and in Korea section we see a vehicle is powered by Swanekke Power Corp. What that means is anyone's guess but it looks like it is fusion.
Sunday, November 24, 2013
Saturday, November 23, 2013
The Messiah Issues
In Cloud Atlas a girl from the 2144 time slot, Sonmi 451, becomes a type of Messiah with some similarities to Jesus but also some notable exceptions.
It is not shown if she became a Messiah to her own people in Korea at the time but it seems she didn't, but she became a different Messiah to the "Old-Uns" up to 2215 than to the ValleyFolk up to 2321. That issue is detailed between Zachry and Meronym, almost ending in bloodshed when Old Georgie tried to intervene.
Meronym says the Old-Uns behaved in a "Judas" type manner thus making a tangible comparison to the Jesus story and the deaths of both Jesus and Sonmi 451.
On the other hand the ValleyFolk seemed to consider her to be "a God", and that is why Zachry gets so upset when Meronym explains that she was not.
Finally, as far as we are [not] told, it seems Meronym and the Prescients had no time for such matters.
We then see from The Abbess [a type of Shaman it seems] that her reference to the "teachings" of Sonmi 451 is a document which is very "Biblesque" entitled "The Revelation of Sonmi 451" and underneath it says "as recorded by Archivist Park", AND it is hand-written.
Now we see later that Sonmi 451 sort of anticipates that Park has been receptive to her interview content by her words "someone already has", BUT it seems Park has gone a huge way further than his job description which he explained up front, in DOING something about it.
In fact it seems that he was SO "overwhelmed" that he took up the role of an "Apostle" which surely would have led to his own death once the document was discovered, given how "classified" was the interview.
The questions then arise, firstly why the ValleyFolk are not referencing her actual words that were broadcast over the world and beyond, and secondly how did they get hold of this apparently one off manuscript [a bit Dead Seas Scrolls like huh?]?
Given their agricultural and remote lifestyle [which apparently saved them from the Fall once the oil ran out] I guess it is logical to say they did not HEAR the "live" Revelation, so that leaves the second question.
So to return to "notable exceptions" to the Jesus gig, it seems we are on a parallel course with Life of Brian, which was a Pythonic satire on Jesus imploring J Doe of the time to FOLLOW him, but Brian trying in vain to STOP people following him.
The path here is slightly different and is perfectly explained in the movie by Park asking Somni if she believes in a Heaven. Quick as a flash she replies that if she did it would be in the form of a new DOOR OPENING, and we slide back in time to she and Hae-Joo Chang, as Tilda and Ewing meeting up again after his near death experience.
The bottom line is not a Heaven as for the Jesus salvation philosophy but the Nietzsche style Eternal Recurrence.
It is not shown if she became a Messiah to her own people in Korea at the time but it seems she didn't, but she became a different Messiah to the "Old-Uns" up to 2215 than to the ValleyFolk up to 2321. That issue is detailed between Zachry and Meronym, almost ending in bloodshed when Old Georgie tried to intervene.
Meronym says the Old-Uns behaved in a "Judas" type manner thus making a tangible comparison to the Jesus story and the deaths of both Jesus and Sonmi 451.
On the other hand the ValleyFolk seemed to consider her to be "a God", and that is why Zachry gets so upset when Meronym explains that she was not.
Finally, as far as we are [not] told, it seems Meronym and the Prescients had no time for such matters.
We then see from The Abbess [a type of Shaman it seems] that her reference to the "teachings" of Sonmi 451 is a document which is very "Biblesque" entitled "The Revelation of Sonmi 451" and underneath it says "as recorded by Archivist Park", AND it is hand-written.
Now we see later that Sonmi 451 sort of anticipates that Park has been receptive to her interview content by her words "someone already has", BUT it seems Park has gone a huge way further than his job description which he explained up front, in DOING something about it.
In fact it seems that he was SO "overwhelmed" that he took up the role of an "Apostle" which surely would have led to his own death once the document was discovered, given how "classified" was the interview.
The questions then arise, firstly why the ValleyFolk are not referencing her actual words that were broadcast over the world and beyond, and secondly how did they get hold of this apparently one off manuscript [a bit Dead Seas Scrolls like huh?]?
Given their agricultural and remote lifestyle [which apparently saved them from the Fall once the oil ran out] I guess it is logical to say they did not HEAR the "live" Revelation, so that leaves the second question.
So to return to "notable exceptions" to the Jesus gig, it seems we are on a parallel course with Life of Brian, which was a Pythonic satire on Jesus imploring J Doe of the time to FOLLOW him, but Brian trying in vain to STOP people following him.
The path here is slightly different and is perfectly explained in the movie by Park asking Somni if she believes in a Heaven. Quick as a flash she replies that if she did it would be in the form of a new DOOR OPENING, and we slide back in time to she and Hae-Joo Chang, as Tilda and Ewing meeting up again after his near death experience.
The bottom line is not a Heaven as for the Jesus salvation philosophy but the Nietzsche style Eternal Recurrence.
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