We then understand links between these moments as the narrative.īut to further understand this story, I suggest the following six keys. Unless we are watching a film in some sort of real-time, like Hitchcock's " Rope" (1948) or Richard Linklater's " Tape" (2001), most every narrative tells us its story, not through a continuous chain of cause and effect, but instead through a collection of moments. We all understand this method already, for every movie tells you its individual stories in this way. Now, to understand the overall story, consider each of these threads to be telling you the story of " Cloud Atlas," almost as though they are talking heads, narrating the overall story through moments within their own stories. As the stories unfold, we see that the stories are related, and imagine further connections that might or might not be there. The last, 2346, is the story of a post-apocalyptic hunter-gatherer, who meets a woman from space, in the search for hidden clues to the world's history, hidden in a frightening temple. The next, 2144, is a story of a genetically engineered stepford-wives-ish diner waitress getting exposed to her unique humanity, while discovering an even larger corporate plot. The next, 2009, is a story of a curious elder publisher seeking escape from a punishment of incarceration in a nursing home. Another, 1974, is the story of an investigative journalist living in the shadows of the memories of her father, while uncovering a massive corporate conspiracy. Another, 1931, is the story of a composer who leaves his soulmate and their taboo relationship to work for an established composer on what intuitively becomes their masterpiece. One - 1846 - is the story of passengers on a ship, specifically the son-in-law of a slave trader, discovering a stowaway while becoming almost fatally ill.
You need not remember the year - I am recalling them from internet links - but as you watch the film, you will definitely get a sense of each divergent era. Meaning, the film takes us through this one large story, that slowly unfolds in narration by six distinct, yet interwoven threads, identified by the year each story launches.
In the foreground, it is a mixture of six personal stories, while the overall arc tells us about the phases in the rise and fall of a global corporate monopoly. " Cloud Atlas" is a story that spans nearly six hundred years.
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