Current Events > What are your thoughts on the movie Cloud Atlas with Tom Hanks and Halle Berry?

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Fuckin awful

and I was soooooo excited for it

all I remember is that Halle Berry played an old Korean man, and Tom Hanks spoke in a futuristic patois, and it was wild to me

I think it's truly excellent, a work of art even. I especially enjoy the aspect of how the smallest, seemingly insignificant acts can have profound impact many years later on a whole different generation.

all over the place

I think it was an interesting experiment that didn't really pay off.

I think it's truly excellent, a work of art even. I especially enjoy the aspect of how the smallest, seemingly insignificant acts can have profound impact many years later on a whole different generation.

@Aressar I watched it again and don't see how any acts impacted the future.

Like, the guy who shot himself in the bathtub in the 1930's was interrogating the Korean woman in the future. What did him shooting himself have to do with anything?

I guess I'll never get it.

I think it was an interesting experiment that didn't really pay off.

There are quite a few acts and connections which impacted later events in one way or another, though here are the most significant ones:
Adam Ewing's (Jim Sturgess) acts described in his journal influenced Robert Frobisher (Ben Whishaw), whose letters and music would in turn influence Luisa Rey (Halle Berry), after Rey met Frobisher's lover Sixsmith. All this eventually culminated in her finding the courage to take it upon herself to uncover a corporate conspiracy and prevent an environmental disaster.

Some of this is directly shown in the trailer:
https://youtu.be/hWnAqFyaQ5s

As for the later three periods of time:
Timothy Cavendish (Jim Broadbent) wrote a book describing his ordeal, which was later adapted into a movie, which was seen by Sonmi-451 (Doona Bae) who then joined the resistance and gave a widely broadcasted speech (which may have been what led to the downfall of the dystopia she lived in, though this connection is not directly shown), and later became a religious figure to Zachry (Tom Hanks), who then helped Meronym activate the mountain facility to send a distress signal to an off-world human colony which saved them and other remaining humans, as Earth was no longer habitable due to radiation.

The point of the movie was how through a chain of causality, even small, seemingly insignificant acts of kindness can end up making a profound, meaningful impact later on, like Cavendish making the decision to help Mr Meeks escape with him and the others, despite having a low opinion of Meeks. Later on however, Meeks ends up saving them all by rallying the Scottish football fans in the pub to their aid. If that hadn't happened, Cavendish wouldn't have gotten to write and publish his book, and none of the later events would have unfolded the way they did.

Hope this helped in clearing up a few things.