Cloud Atlas (film)

Cloud Atlas is a 2012 independent GermanAmerican science fiction film written and directed by Lana Wachowski, Tom Tykwer and Andy Wachowski. Adapted from the 2004 novel of the same name by David Mitchell, the film has multiple plots set across six different eras, which Mitchell described as a sort of pointillist mosaic. The official synopsis describes it as an exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution. Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, and Jim Broadbent lead an ensemble cast.

Adam Ewing, an American lawyer, has come to the Chatham Islands to conclude a business arrangement with Reverend Horrox and his fatherinlaw. While in Horroxs plantation, he witnesses the whipping of a Moriori slave, Autua, who later stows away on the ship. Autua confronts Ewing and convinces him to advocate for Autua to join the crew as a free man. Dr Henry Goose slowly poisons Ewing, claiming it to be the cure for a parasitic worm, to steal Ewings valuables. As Goose administers the fatal dose, Autua saves Ewing. Returning to the United States, Ewing and his wife Tilda denounce her fathers complicity in slavery and leave to join the abolition movement.Robert Frobisher, an English composer, finds work as an amanuensis to aging composer Vyvyan Ayrs, allowing Frobisher the time and inspiration to compose his own masterpiece, The Cloud Atlas Sextet. Frobisher begins reading Ewings journal, which he has found among the books at Ayrss mansion. Ayrs demands credit for The Cloud Atlas Sextet and threatens to expose Frobishers scandalous background if he refuses. Frobisher accidentally shoots Ayrs and flees to a hotel, where he uses the name Ewing. He finishes The Cloud Atlas Sextet and commits suicide just before his lover Rufus Sixsmith arrives. ........

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