David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas seemed unfilmable for many reasons. That’s partially because of its unique structure, telling six different stories set in radically different settings and featuring characters who are only tangentially related by the book’s barely-explained themes. But Cloud Atlas is also a book about books. Mitchell writes each story in radically different styles — mystery-thriller, dystopian sci-fi, fantasy patois — and the focal characters have a curious habit of perusing the book’s other stories, creating a linked chain of readership which only really makes sense in book form.
So whatever you think about the film version of Cloud Atlas,...
So whatever you think about the film version of Cloud Atlas,...
- 10/27/2012
- by Darren Franich
- EW.com - PopWatch
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