![]() The movie, directed by Andy and Lana Wachowski and Tom Twyker, doesn't have discrete episodes. Jim Broadbent and Ben Wishaw, seen here as Ayrs and Frobisher, also play five roles each. The last story is set in a post-apocalyptic future in which some denizens are hunter-gatherers, others cannibals. In a totalitarian future, a South Korean restaurant is staffed by female robots called "fabricants," a couple of which are beginning to think for themselves with tumultuous social consequences. We jump to a 1970s paranoid conspiracy thriller then a 2012 tale of a debt-ridden publisher tricked into signing himself into an old age home. Rated R for violence, language, sexuality/nudity and some drug useįirst I need to talk about the book, because it's not as if Cloud Atlas the movie came from nowhere - and if you think it's only the movie you want to know about, I think you need a context for what's onscreen.Īuthor David Mitchell writes exquisite pastiches, and Cloud Atlas is in the form of six distinct and enthralling novellas set in six different eras with six different literary styles.įirst comes the journal of a 19th century lawyer for a slave-trading company, then a series of early 20th century letters from a down-and-out composer who apprentices himself to an elderly musical giant. ![]() ![]() ![]()
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