Cloud Atlas

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.

Source: movieposter.com

I just watched Cloud Atlas today and for me this movie is a brilliant movie and really beautiful. Cloud Atlas was actually a book by David Mitchell and many people said that this book is unfilmable because it has 6 different plot in a different time which is people might think it's confusing. However, as the director, Tom Twyker, Lana Wachowski and Andy Wachowski made it pretty well with a different approach to David's book by combining all 6 different plots and era into one unlike the book which in the book is chronically through the years then afterward it return to the beginning to expose the truth and the connection.

This movie made us think and sort of playing 'Where's Wally?' kind-of-game since in every era we could find the same actor/actress playing a different role which I found it amusing and interesting that they all made it to play different characters in each era.

Basically, Cloud Atlas contains 6 different time era with a different genre as well. The first story, a historical narrative written in diary format. Then we move to Robert Frobisher’s letters, which is really a romance with his beloved, Sixsmiths. From there we go to the journalist’s story set in the 1970s, and it’s more of a straight-up mystery/action movie. In the contemporary scene with Cavendish, we get a comedy of errors. In the futuristic Korean world, we get a sci-fi movie. And then we get the post-apocalyptic almost primitive world.

It is amazing for me how David Mitchell could make such a story with all different genres in one plot storyline and basically it shows us how each of the character interconnect with their future different character as their reincarnation. It shows us how a person evolve their character throughout time, from the evil one into a good person and also there's a person who keeps being a good person and another who keeps being a bad person. As they all related through the comet birthmark, as I quoted from salon.com, 'the birthmark indicates a soul passing through another body, and shows how we’re all connected.'

The thing that I'm confused was why it is Sonmi instead of the other Replicants. They didn't explain it quite well in the movie while that kind of question was raised by Sonmi herself, if I'm not mistaken. 

I'm quite surprise to know that Jim Sturgess acted as Hae Joo Chang, the korean guy who helped Sonmi. I didn't know that it's Jim Sturgess at first but I know that Hae Joo Chang is handsome already but it's kinda too bad that they made Jim as an asian. Also Hugo Weaving turned into an Asian guy with a small slit eyes, uh such a big no please.

Overall, I find it very interesting since I'm a detail-oriented person so I like to spot any details on the movie that related to the other character in the previous time era and guessing who's who in that time.

Worth to watch!