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Film challenges
audiences with daring,
complex storyline
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"Matrix" creators, the
Wachowski siblings, arid writer-
director Tom Tykwer ("Run Lola
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a novel that was deemed unfilm-
able by its own author and made
it into one of the most daring,
ambitious and impressive spec-
tacles in quite some time.
Although "Cloud Atlas" is
overly long (nearly three hours),
and far from great, one cannot
help but admire how it challenges
its audience with its audacious
style and complex, nonlinear
storytelling construct.
A detailed plot description
would require hours of expla-
nation. To put it simply, there
are six stories that take place
during separate timelines, and
they are all intertwined to create
one magical ride.
It takes some time for viewers
to hone in on the narrative struc-
ture, but once they clue in to
the overall theme, it is no longer
confusing when the story jumps
from the post apocalyptic future
to a runaway slave in the 1800s.
The overall idea of the film is
that we all have lives intercon-
nected with our past, present and
future. For all I know, I could have
been a woman of a different race
in the 17th century who was a
murderer, but in a different life I
could have been a hero.
This idea of past lives was
touched on in the recently
released Scientology-based film
"The Master." While that film
explained this concept, "Cloud
Atlas" illustrates this concept with
its state-of-the-art visual effects,
art design and sound.
An important aspect of the
film is that the actors all play
different characters throughout
Most of the main actors play six
to eight characters that all live in
different eras. But they each give
engaging performances, espe-
cially Tom Hanks, Halle Berry,
Hugh Grant, Ben Whishaw and
Hugo Weaving.
The only drawback of the film,
aside from its length, definitely
came from the makeup depart-
ment— trying to turn Asian
actress Doona Bae into a believ-
able redheaded Caucasian woman
during the early years of explora-
tion was simply distracting.
It is apparent that this film is
not for everyone, and I imagine
that many audience members will
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wonder what they were watching.
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crossed my mind a few times.
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Scene: North Texas Daily (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 100, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, October 26, 2012, newspaper, October 26, 2012; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth291775/m1/10/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.