Review: Cloud Atlas

The movie is quite a lot to take in for me, but I noticed the word 'Truth' pops up multiple times, which I believe is the overarching theme. A theme that holds together the six stories that make up the movie and that, like the characters inhabiting them, are linked to one another by way of sub-themes.

Cloud Atlas is an adaptation from a namesake novel penned by David Mitchell, who had this to say about the novel, and I quote:

"Literally all of the main characters, except one, are reincarnations of the same soul in different bodies..."

All of the main characters in the movie are interesting if not moving and are of interest to the sub-themes, except for the ones played by Tom Hanks; I think his characters, his reincarnations, speak to the movie's overarching theme: Truth.

I think this movie is important.

SORQ score: 4

(Runtime: 172 minutes)