![]() ![]() These kinds of crazy complications and connections are precisely what made the book (written by David Mitchell in 2004) shine. In book form, the story was Mitchell’s to manipulate: he had over 500 pages in which to explain the intricacies of each of these stories, each of these worlds, each of these characters. However, that entire chronicle has trouble translating into movie form. ![]() There are six different protagonists, six different storylines and dozens of connections between said storylines. ![]() ![]() As is usually the case with movie translations of novels, I anticipated “Cloud Atlas” would be either unbelievably mind-blowing or incredibly disappointing. As it turns out, that expectation was totally wrong – “Cloud Atlas” contained such a mixture of amazing elements and inescapable problems that I’m still not entirely sure how I feel about it. One thing that’s for sure is that this movie can’t be explained in a 10-word summary. ![]()
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