#4 – Cloud Atlas
Based on the 2004 novel by David Mitchell, this film was released in 2012 and stars Tom Hanks and Halle Berry. The Wachowskis directed this epic film, which contains six stories set in six different times ranging from the 1800’s to a distant, post-apocalyptic future. The stories are all connected in some way, and each has Hanks and Berry as its protagonists in addition to a range of other performers.
Cloud Atlas raises a few questions in the audience: are the characters reincarnations of the ones in the previous stories? Can people really influence each other over generations and continents? How deep do the connections between characters run? Ultimately, this film is not so much confusing as it is likely to inspire curiosity and debate.