#Cloud atlas movie#

Ewing helps an escaped-slave stowaway (David Gyasi) and ultimately condemns slavery a hotel guest in 1936 a father in 1973 a soccer fan in 2012 who gets in a pub fight to help some senior citizens a Korean freedom fighter in 2144 who saves clone/slave Doona Bae and starts a revolution a doomed tribe member in 2321, whose brother-in-law Tom Hanks is too scared to save him from cannibal Hugh Grant. Who he plays: Young and gullible (and birthmarked) lawyer Adam Ewing, on a journey from the South Pacific to notarize a contract between plantation owner Hugh Grant and EwingвЂ™s father-in-law, Hugo Weaving.

#Cloud atlas movie#

Onscreen connections to other characters/story lines: His movie inspires a clone in 2144 to set off a revolution that clone, Sonmi-451 becomes a goddess to his post-apocalyptic tribe the turquoise buttons he steals from Adam EwingвЂ™s vest in 1849 are around his neck in 2321, HanksвЂ™s character having found them in the forest HanksвЂ™s goatherd has a nightmare in which he sees all the other timelines. His soul journey: He goes from a shady murderer who says, вЂњThe weak are meat the strong do eat,вЂќ to someone who learns courage and selflessness.

Who he plays: A doctor poisoning Jim Sturgess in 1849 in order to rob him a hotel manager in 1936 who extorts Ben WhishawвЂ™s composer a physicist working at a shady nuclear power plant in 1973 who agrees to help investigative journalist Halle Berry a roughneck author in 2012 who throws a critic off a balcony an actor playing Timothy Cavendish (Jim BroadbentвЂ™s character) in a movie watched in 2144 a cowardly (and birthmarked!) goatherd in 2321 who helps Halle BerryвЂ™s Meronym, a representative of the last vestiges of advanced civilization who reside on an off-world colony - the filmвЂ™s bookmark scenes of an elderly Tom Hanks take place on a different planet. ( Note: to avoid confusion we will mostly refer to the characters by the names of the actors who play them.)ДЄ ship crossing the Pacific in 1849 the home of an elderly composer in 1936 Edinburgh San Francisco and a nearby nuclear power plant in 1973 London and an Edinburgh nursing home in 2012 Neo-Soul, the capital of a half-ruined Korea in 2144 a valley and a mountain on a post-apocalyptic Hawaii in 2321. Here is a guide to the karmic chameleons of Cloud Atlas. See Tom Hanks? Then youвЂ™ve got the recovering soul who starts off bad but will become (mostly) good over the course of his journey. (In the book, you could track the reincarnation by the bodies that shared a comet-shaped birthmark in the film, the birthmark just signals our protagonists, and the actor triggers the reincarnation.) See Hugo Weaving? Then youвЂ™ve got the bad soul who will only get worse over time. Tracking those actors is somewhat key to understanding the connective plot, in which various souls are reincarnated or migrate over time - crossing the ages like clouds cross the skies. Actors play multiple roles across the film, switching ages, races, and even genders from tale to tale. Each of the six intertwined stories takes place in a different era and assumes the tropes of completely different genres. If youвЂ™ve watched Cloud Atlas and youвЂ™re still a bit confused, itвЂ™s easy to see why.