Cloud atlas (2012)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2012
	Director: Tom Tykwer, Ansy and Lana Wachowski
	Actors: Tom Hanks, Hale Berry, Hugo Weaving, James d'Arcy
	Country: D, HK, SGP, USA
	Genre: SF
	Conditions of visioning: 18.11.2012, Schauburg, OV
Synopsis: An 1849 diary of an ocean voyage across the Pacific; letters from a composer to his friend; a thriller about a murder at a nuclear power plant; a farce about a publisher in a nursing home; a rebellious clone in futuristic Korea; and the tale of a tribe living in post-apocalyptic Hawaii. All the stories are linked together.
Review: The originality of the movie is to place on screen stories over time having something in common. This can be linked to the buddhistic topic of evanescence, but all the stories show a struggle between groups of rather good people against rather bad people and in each group people ready to switch sides, which sounds like the communist topic of class struggle. Anyway, stories are like independent movies. Therefore also different directors. The smooth transitions (the sound of the last scene on the image of the new one for a few seconds) increase the impression of linked worlds. Some actors performed specially well, being travestied or playing very different roles for instance. I did not read the book of David Mitchell, but now I am very curious.
Rating: 8 /10