Cloud Atlas(2012)- User Reviews

Thought Provoking

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If you go to Cloud Atlas expecting a plot, you will be disappointed. This movie requires shifting your focus

to themes and messages. And those themes and

messages are very thought provoking. Six stories,

like a well crafted symphony are interwoven into an

examination of connectedness, cause and effect, and

oppression with dollops of discrimination and violence.

I watched the movie at first expecting a story to unfold, or at least six stories. A quarter way into the film I shifted to just reacting to the underlying themes. This movie goes deeper than most action films, and that's what makes it a winner. It is

not a mindless entertainment pablum. Instead, it makes you

contemplate existence itself long after you leave the theater.