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Cloud Atlas: THE most confusing multiple personality disorder movie of the year.. Yet my brain tries to explain everything that's happening despite sooo many random backstories ranging from the gay musical composer helping an old man, to some novel writer critic looking for his wife and stuff, to a Korean futurisitic girl who finds out that she's a waitress clone in a darker future of Korea, or Tom Hanks and Halle Berry playing dual roles whether a deranged ship crew who hates blacks, to a survivor Castaway, to a woman playing both a weird Star Trek style alien visitor and a journalist looking for conspiracies in her latest stories.. Despite all the chaos ensuing, I must say it delivers one of those vicious cycles of how decisions can really influence the world around whether it's religion and science, or pure prejudice against sexual orientations or their colored skins... Wow.. Hugo Weaving really does a hilarious job of playing multiple villains from the crossdresser old retirement nanny, some random street guy hunting journalists or playing the weird Mad Hatter demon in Tom Hank's primitive tribe.
It almost felt like these directors are screwing around ala Back to The Future and they stole the Doc's delorean time machine to mind fuck the audience with its plot twists. Still, yeah, my brain despite hardly memorizing some characters and moments that make the great film, leaving the theater was like I dunno I feel like watching it again just to get the whole thing but the brain says just enjoy for what it is.
To make my review of Cloud Atlas, shorter, think of it as a mixture of those Amores Perros, Back to The Future plus Matrix plus Inception type of formulaic movie.
8/10.
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