Cloud Atlas

"Our lives are not our own, we are bound to others, past and present. And by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future." These lines just barely define the immensity of Cloud Atlas. Spanning six lifetimes, the movie explores the possibility of our actions in the present, spreading their fingers into the future, and shaping the verity of existence.

Cloud Atlas is all over the place! Like, literally. And we mean that in the best of all possible ways. When a book of the same name, written by David Mitchell, was designated as "unfilmable" by its own author, Tykwer and the Wachowskis decided that that was bull. And, boy o boy, aren't we glad that they did.

The scope of Cloud Atlas is vast, its themes universal, and its voices boundless. Set in six different keyframes on a timeline that spans from mid-1840s to a post-apocalyptic future, the movie slowly but steadily accelerates through ideas of ascent and descent, of freedom an....