Review of Cloud Atlas (2012) by Vincent L — 15 Mar 2018

No clue as to whether history will be kind to this movie, but personally I will always defend it for the masterpiece that it is. Critics complaining about the movie being incomprehensible simply give away their own stupidity, so I'm not even going to take that point serious.

I've read the book afterwards and though it's fantastic structure had to be let go by the Wachowski's I can wholly understand the reasons as cinematically the book's piramid structure would not have worked in this medium.

Funny thing is that I didn't care much for most performances except for hilarious Jim Broadbent in his Timothy Cavendish persona and the utterly spellbinding Bae Doo-na who commands your attention every second she is on screen, the others are mostly forgettable.

So, why a masterpiece then?

Well, first of all both visually and musically the movie is unforgettable, but where it shines the most is simply the power of its story that purveys a message this world is in dire need of (transcended later on in their Sense8 series) of the interconnectedness of humanity through time of what came berfore us as well as in time between us.

One can take the easy road of course and be cynical about it, but that only shows how much we need this message to become what drives us a species.

The movie is a work of awe and beauty that I will keep revisiting.