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Yuntu's Hope
Stan 2022-03-18 09:01:03
In 1850, South Pacific, American notary public Adam Ewing (Jim Sturgess) was tortured by an unknown parasitic disease on a ship. He used his diary to record what he saw and heard; 1931, Scotland, fell The young Robert Frobisher (played by Ben Whishaw) recorded music scores for the music master, and was inspired by half of his travel diary to create the magnificent "Cloud Atlas Sixt"; 1975, California, USA, tabloid reporter Louis Sha Lei (Halle Berry) risked her life to investigate a nuclear power plant scandal. At the old record store, she was moved by an unknown movement; in 2012, London, England, a publisher who was imprisoned in a nursing home Timothy Cavendish (Jim Broadbent), carrying a stack of documentary literature written by a female reporter, intends to make his "prison escape experience" into a movie; Utopian future, Seoul, restaurant The waiter clone Xingmei-451 (played by Doona Bae) began to form self-awareness and rebellion against humans
Extended Reading
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Robert Frobisher: [narrating] Dinner of pheasant with Bordeaux rich as buttercream. How I love to listen to men of distinguished lives sing of past follies and glories. The only broken note in the entire evening was Ayrs' wife, Jocasta, excusing herself early. Sensed the buried bone. Later I asked Ayrs about it, he said Kesselring had introduced Jocasta to him. I pried, had Kesselring been in love with her. The subject was a prickly one.
Vyvyan Ayrs: Jocasta was a Jew. Obviously the relationship was impossible.
Robert Frobisher: Why obviously?
Vyvyan Ayrs: Can you really be so ignorant of what is happening in Germany?
Robert Frobisher: [continues narration] At this point in my life all I know, Sixsmith, is that this world spins from the same unseen forces that twist our hearts.
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Sonmi-451: That ship... that ship must be destroyed.
Hae-Joo Chang: Yes.
Sonmi-451: The systems that built them must be torn down.
Hae-Joo Chang: Yes.
Sonmi-451: No matter if we're born in a tank or a womb, we are all Pureblood.
Hae-Joo Chang: Yes.
Sonmi-451: We must all fight and, if necessary, die to teach people the truth.
Hae-Joo Chang: This is what we have been waiting for.