Cloud atlas novel5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This drives home the theme of recurrence, but also helps engage you in characters you don't yet know- you've seen Halle Berry as Luisa Rey already, so when she reappears as Meronym, you already feel like you know her. That idea is expanded dramatically in the movie, in which actors reoccur in most if not all of the timelines, sometimes as similar characters- Hugo Weaving is a bad guy in all of them, though he transforms into a nurse in one- and sometimes dramatically different ones, as when Halle Berry goes from a tribal child to a Jewish woman in Scotland to the Hispanic American Luisa Rey. In the book there is a suggestion of a single soul reoccurring throughout time, thanks to a comet-shaped birthmark that appears on Robert Frobisher, Luisa Rey and other characters. ![]() In its place is a series of montages, overlapping dialogue and deft edits that draw all kinds of parallels among the stories that you might not have noticed, and allows the rise and fall of the stories to synch up in consistently unexpected ways. Gone are the neatly nested stories, in which each character reads the story of the previous one through a book or letters or manuscript or futuristic orb. So, the three major overarching changes between Cloud Atlas the book and the movie. ![]()
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