The amount of time he spoke with Tom Hanks character at the bottom of the stairs was the amount of time needed to save him. Small interactions often change the course of our lives more than we realize. 20 seconds to change our lives. Energy building that the hands of destiny cannot change like an avalanche once it's broken way and set on a course. Sixsmith had work left to do for his soul mission (to meet and deliver value info to Louisa) and Frobisher had completed his life's work. If twin souls get separated early on like with the ending scene of the movie....life eventually has them reconnect.
My mother who had planned suicide rather than go to a nursing home nodded with a knowing smile while watching this with her, she took her own life within the week.
My sincere condolences. I hope something gives you comfort, at least this movie and how you can continue with her drop in the ocean. It reassured me, at least, that my father's existence, who died more than 20 years ago when I was little, was that one drop and that he continues on existing in some way no matter how he's physically gone a long time ago already. It's not always that bittersweet, it can still get quite bitter, but what you can do. Only find a thread to be able to go on despite all the ugliness of life.
Every. Time. I watch . This. I bawl and bawl and bawl. This is the purest scene of the closest interpretation, of what it truly is, to lose the love of my life.
This gets me every time, it just breaks me in a good way that there is something worth living for, living with depression for so many years. I know the feeling and it hurts knowing that is your only escape.
I just don't think it works. I think if you do that, you just have to come and deal with the same shit again until you work through it. I've seen too much strange stuff in my life to ever believe that death is the end ever again.
i have been always thinking that "we do not stay dead long" part. that exact thought ! i when i saw the movie i was surprised somone believes/thinks that too.(writer of the book) somehow i still believe that.
Most suicides don't leave an orchestral composition of creative magnificence in their wake but only disharmony and doom, perhaps it is the same thing in the end...
Frobisher's episode was the saddest and most beautiful love story I've ever known. Years later, I still watch this episode over and over again. I wish they made a full size movie just for this episode.
Sadly, given the way the characters reincarnated later on (Rufus being reborn as Nurse James from the retirement home, and the Archivist in Sonmi-451's time; Robert being reborn as the Store Clerk who showed Louisa Rey the Cloud Atlas vinyl, and much later as Georgette Cavendish), I doubt Rufus and Robert were ever a couple again in another lifetime. Thus making Robert's promise of meeting again in a better world an empty one that never came to be. That is unless the book or some tie-in material provides evidence of Georgette's reincarnation fell in love with Nurse James' reincarnation at some point (or that Georgette married Nurse James after Georgette's elderly husband passed away).
I used to think the same, but after re-watching multiple times, I find it intriguing how Robert and Sixsmith's story is usually paralleled/accompanied by Zachry and Meronym's story. Like in here, when he writes "I believe there is a better world for us", the scene shows Zachry and Meronym together. In another key scene, "all bounderies are convention", it also shows Sixsmith visiting Robert in his dream; while Zachry watching Meronym sleeping. So, although very vague and indirect, I still would like to think that Robert's soul reincarnated into Zachry and Sixsmith's into Meronym.
In the book the six main characters (with the comet birthmark) are the same soul. In the movie, the actor represents a soul. So basically Frobisher meets Sixsmith again in the 1970s as Luisa Rey. In the book, Sixsmith even tells Luisa that he feels that he has known her for a lifetime, because she was Frobisher in her past life. So beautiful.
@@longasau That is very far fetched. But considering how the movie depicts multiple soul journeys, sometimes the split of souls (for example: Doona Bae in the 1970s played two characters: Megans Mom and Mexican Woman), this theory is possible but very unlikely.
I think the concept is not so one-to-one as that. The experience of the individual resonates within the collective, so a loss or tragedy impacts everyone, and can only be "righted" through human connection, understanding, and love. Robert and Sixsmith's energy is disconnected by this tragedy, but finds itself reconnected again later in time, through different forms (possibly Zachry and Meronym). So even as Sixsmith and Robert could never be together in their own lifetimes, their love eventually found each other. But fragments of themselves continued throughout existence, turning up in different stories, impacting others directly and indirectly, and shambling through until they could get it right.
Not literally, my brother went to his favorite place and drank and smoke right before he ended his time here on earth, so yes this paints that picture that I didn’t notice till after his death and on a drunken evening
Its a beautiful movie that you understand more and more each time you watch it. This scene though puzzles me from a purely artistic perspective. Did Ben Whishaw get passed out drunk to look that dead or did they use some other drug to achieve it. I'm not suggesting anything illegal. Knowing how difficult it is to go so completely limp like that while consciousness, I'm curious how they pulled it off?
Princess Mononoke depression, knowing he’d go to prison for life...feeling that he’ll never accomplish anything as beautiful as the cloud atlas sextet but knowing his soul will forever be bound to the man he loves
