Laura Athena

Fascinating depiction of the events that led Jim Carrey to his spiritual awakening - his method acting experience playing Andy Kaufman. Carrey went so deep into Andy that when he came back from it he realized his own Jim Carrey ego was itself a performance. This sparked his quest to understand the nature of the self.

OK so. This movie is amazing. But it's probably not going to be really understood by people unless they have had an experience being the daughter of an emotionally distant and/or abusive mother. If you have, it's incredibly profound. I feel like I understood my mother in a way I never have before, through this movie. I was worried it would excuse Leda's actions, but it doesn't. Instead it helps you empathise with someone whose behaviour (seen from the perspective of her daughters) is extremely confusing and upsetting, and understand them better. It helps me realise what the inner life of my mother must be like, and to forgive, through realising her behaviour wasn't really my fault. The acting by all the women in the movie is fantastic, but I have to say the real standout actress is the child who plays Young Leda's daughter Bianca. That is the most realistic and heart wrenching acting from a child I've ever seen!!!

Absolutely brilliant film. Ignore the organised hate campaign from the review bombers. It's a beautiful movie. It expands on a lot of the ideas that the Wachowskis explored in the first Matrix trilogy, but even more so ideas from Cloud Atlas and Sense8. We can all be Neo. Thank you Lana Wachowski!!

Such a beautiful story told in such an imaginative way. It mixes genres - science fiction, fantasy, medical drama, courtroom drama - and at the heart of it is the phenomenal performances of Jonah Hill and Emma Stone. The first time I watched it, I binged the entire thing. It's just beautiful and heartwarming. One of the best things on Netflix.

The most beautiful documentary I've ever seen, expressing poetically the non-dualistic concept of Oneness with the All, explaining human misery and violence in the context of our alienation from each other and the natural world, and showing a new way forward where we can find peace and harmony together. Very inspiring, when I first saw it, I cried. It was this film (not Earthlings) that made me finally become a vegan. I would recommend this movie above Earthlings to anyone who wants to convert others to veganism. It's not an unrelenting depressing film about all the ways humanity is evil the way Earthlings is. It's a hopeful, idealistic, loving film about the innate beauty and dignity of all life, including human life, and how humans could if we let ourselves, be the greatest guardians of all life that this planet could ever need.

The most profound and beautiful movie I've ever seen. When I became an atheist I had an existential crisis about what the meaning of life was, if we're all going to die and there's no "heaven". Cloud Atlas reshaped my view of immortality, into one where one's actions and choices ripple throughout time forever, and the thoughts and ideals that shape our consciousness travel from mind to mind through love, art, belief, ideals, creating a form of reincarnation without any supernatural cause. After watching this movie I had a vision of my life in the web of causality stretching throughout human history and into the future, and I realised that nothing is ever lost, and our loved ones are literally part of us, and always will be. Even if we're forgotten. In that moment I lost my fear of death. It's hard to overstate the impact this movie has had on me. Just - I understand what the Wachowskis were trying to convey, and it's beautiful, and I resonate with it so deeply. Not everyone will resonate with it, and that's OK, but it's not meant for everyone. "The nature of our immortal lives is in the consequences of our words and deeds, that go on pushing themselves throughout all time. Our lives are not our own. From womb to tomb, we are bound to others, past and present. And by each crime and every kindness we birth our future." "All boundaries are conventions, waiting to be transcended. One may transcend any convention as long as one can first conceive of doing so. Moments like these, I can feel your heart beating as clearly as I feel my own, and I know that separation is an illusion. My life extends far beyond the limitations of me".