Cloud Atlas is a confusing story that is actually very well written but can lose someone quite easily along the way if they’re not paying attention since it contains connections throughout the length of the tale that are very strong but tend to become a bit clouded, no pun intended, by the details that make up the setting, subplots, and everything else that goes into the story. There are quite a few people that didn’t appreciate this movie as much since it is a thinker without any doubts and one that won’t slow down to guide a person along if they happen to get lost. That’s the great part about it however, the realism when it comes to following a story or being dropped at a certain point and having to wonder how to continue onward. It’s true that the movie does kind of shift back and forth between the timelines and it can be quite confusing, but if a viewer can sit through the entire movie and come to the conclusion after watching the entire thing then they’ll understand the connection and how everything came to be in a sequence of events that feels completely random but it at the same time connected in ways that are hard to fathom from the beginning but become clearer with every step.
Here are a few movies you might like if you enjoyed Cloud Atlas.
5. V for Vendetta
The level of connection in this movie isn’t quite a random or confusing as Cloud Atlas since it’s more widespread and tends to fan out as V makes his way forward throughout the tale, building the story with a definitive narrative and a voice that is focused entirely upon revenge with a plot that’s not too hard to figure out. It’s true that it does take a while to really develop into something that’s more than just exposition, but once it does the story become something that speaks to a lot of people, and likely would at this point in time with the country divided the way it is. Somethings a revolution is a great thing, when one’s leader is an actual dictator.
4. The International
Grandiose designs that are built off the backs of those that know little to nothing about what goes on and what’s funded with the hard work and sweat they put into something appears to be a running narrative in Hollywood since it permeates quite a few movies and is a recurring theme. The idea that there’s a vast conspiracy around every corner is enough to make a person paranoid but it’s also wise to question the world we live in at times simply because one never knows what kind of machinations the higher-ups might be concocting. Of course the movies are there to show us the worst case scenarios, not exactly what it is or will be happening as many people tend to believe.
3. The Matrix
You might think it’s kind of odd to compare The Matrix to Cloud Atlas in any way but there is that whole idea of ‘never really dying’ as people find themselves being transported through history in one form or another in order to create, observe, or simply be a part of the change that comes over the world in a gradual or sometimes very shocking way. The Matrix is of course one of the more action-packed ways in which change comes about, a radical and very aggressive change that is needed as it’s seen from one perspective and inevitable from another perspective. The one constant of course is change, and that fact that it will continue to happen no matter who’s there to steer its course.
2. Mr. Nobody
Mr. Nobody is a course in connection in a very different way, but it still speaks to the ‘what if’ factor that Cloud Atlas entertains as well since the three different outcomes that one person’s life takes on from the results of a single decision could go in numerous ways as this movie explores. While no one way might be deemed to be right or wrong all of the ways become a very real life that somehow transcends what we as viewers are used to seeing on screen. It takes a great deal of patience and sometimes the suspension of all belief to get into a movie such as this in order to really immerse yourself in the experience.
1. The Fountain
A man seeking a cure, that’s one of the main points of this movie, and one of the driving story lines that people are obviously attracted to, though it can fall by the wayside rather quickly if people aren’t paying attention since there is a great deal of meaning to this movie that needs to be comprehended. Likely as not many people have watched it for a short ways only to give up at some point and say it’s not easy enough to understand. But finding your way to the end does bring a dawning realization that’s kind of depressing, but very meaningful.
Not all movies are meant to cater to every intellect.
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