Cloud Atlas (2012) One of my buddies recommended to me to have a peek into this movie with which he was trying to make the head from the tail in this confusing film in which 6 stories from different era all run concurrently flip-flopping between scenes. It narrates scenes ranging from what appeared like prehistoric (it turned out to be way past heights of modernism, the nihilistic future, year 2321) to 2144, 2012, 1973, 1936 and 1849. I thought the story would highlight how one small action in the past would change the future, sadly I was disappointed. It only shows specks of 6 small stories interwoven as each continues on. The only thing that seem to bind each other is the actors who play different plots in various stories. I thought the soul of the same actors in different stories were the same and their actions in previous lives would somehow affect their next live, sadly it was only in my imagination! Only the 2144 and 2321 stories had certain link, the Somni goddess. The fi...
It is all Mimesis