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.