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It requires quite a bit of brass and self-confidence to adapt David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas to film. The book presents six disassociated narrations in six disassociated interims of time, swerving from the nineteenth century to an apocalyptic future. Each tale embraces a deviating genre, both in details of plot and terminology. The connection between them is tangible context, an idea that’s challenging to transmit through film. But these nonsensical, ostensibly impossible hurdles did not intimidate directors Tom Tykwer, Andy Wachowski, and Lana Wachowski from compress the book into 171 minutes of pure ocular vivid epic-ness. It was always certain that they wouldn’t be able to carry through successfully (how could they?) but the commendable components outweigh the false steps.
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