Cloud Atlas (2012)

Bae Doona: Tilda, Megan's Mom, Mexican Woman, Sonmi-451, Sonmi-351, Sonmi Prostitute

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• Sonmi-451 : 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.

• Archivist : On behalf of my Ministry and the future of Unanimity, I want to thank you for the final interview. Remember, this isn't an interrogation or trial. Your version of the truth is all that matters.

  Sonmi-451 : Truth is singular. Its "versions" are mistruths.

• Archivist : What if no one believes this... truth?

  Sonmi-451 : Someone already does.

• Archivist : In your Revelation, you spoke of the consequences of an individual's life rippling through eternity. Does this mean that you believe in an afterlife? In a heaven or a hell?

  Sonmi-451 : I believe death is only a door. When it closes, another opens. If I cared to imagine a heaven, I would imagine a door opening and behind it, I would find him there.

• Archivist : [about Yoona taking Somni to the lost-and-found room]  Why didn't you report Yoona-939 to Seer Rhee the next day?

  Sonmi-451 : I couldn't.

  Archivist : Why?

  Sonmi-451 : Because she trusted me.

  Archivist : But your actions violated the Fifth Catechism.

  Sonmi-451 : That's true.

  Archivist : How did you justify this transgression?

  Sonmi-451 : She was my friend.

• An-kor Apis : You, my dear, are proof our efforts were not in vain.

  Sonmi-451 : But I'm just a dinery server. I was not genomed to alter reality.

  An-kor Apis : No revolutionary ever was.

• Sonmi-451 : To be is to be perceived. And so to know thyself is only possible through the eyes of the other. The nature of our immortal lives is in the consequences of our words and deeds that go on apportioning themselves throughout all time.

• 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.

• Sonmi-451 : This is what General Apis asked of me.

  Archivist : What, to be executed?

  Sonmi-451 : If I had remained invisible, the truth would stay hidden. I couldn't allow that.

  Archivist : And what if no one believes this truth?

  Sonmi-451 : Someone already does.

• Archivist : The report said Commander Chang was killed in the assault.

  Sonmi-451 : That is correct.

  Archivist : Would you say that you loved him?

  Sonmi-451 : Yes, I do.

  Archivist : Do you mean, you are still, in love with him?

  Sonmi-451 : I mean, that I will always be...

• Sonmi-451 : I believe that death is only a door.