Cloud Atlas,The Movie
One of the best novels i have read was !Clod Atlas" by David Mitchell. This was turned into a film in 2012 and this evening i have watched it. The multi-layered six-nested storyline novel would have been one difficult to adapt into a screenplay and working film. However, they managed to pull it off and the film does follow the book closely, and in a way makes the book more understandable.
Each tale is revealed to be a story that is read (or observed) by the main character in the next. The first five stories are interrupted at a key moment. After the sixth story, the other five stories are returned to and closed, in reverse chronological order, and each ends with the main character reading or observing the chronologically previous work in the chain. Eventually, readers end where they started, with Adam Ewing in the nineteenth century South Pacific. Each story contains a document, movie or tradition that also appears in a previous story. It shows how history not only repeats itself, but also connects to people in all time periods and places.
The film version covers the six interlocking time periods -
South Pacific Ocean, 1849
Cambridge, England and Edinburgh, Scotland, 1936
San Francisco, USA, 1973
United Kingdom, 2012
Neo Seoul, (Korea), 2144
The Big Island, 2321
I read the book as one my 2012 book challenge, and now that i have seen the film, will want to read the book again, which was nominated for a Booker prize.
Each tale is revealed to be a story that is read (or observed) by the main character in the next. The first five stories are interrupted at a key moment. After the sixth story, the other five stories are returned to and closed, in reverse chronological order, and each ends with the main character reading or observing the chronologically previous work in the chain. Eventually, readers end where they started, with Adam Ewing in the nineteenth century South Pacific. Each story contains a document, movie or tradition that also appears in a previous story. It shows how history not only repeats itself, but also connects to people in all time periods and places.
The film version covers the six interlocking time periods -
South Pacific Ocean, 1849
Cambridge, England and Edinburgh, Scotland, 1936
San Francisco, USA, 1973
United Kingdom, 2012
Neo Seoul, (Korea), 2144
The Big Island, 2321
I read the book as one my 2012 book challenge, and now that i have seen the film, will want to read the book again, which was nominated for a Booker prize.