Just for fun. I definitely don’t want a sequel, but this is just a hypothetical idea. I will probably think that the cannibals will somehow find a way to the new planet and eat all of Zachary and his children. It’ll be a horror movie.

This might be a spoiler...?

While rewatching, I got curious if there's a translation anywhere for what all the clone workers are singing while one of them is being "retired".

It's essentially the lyrics to The Cloud Atlas sextet since a "dream vision" of that place inspired the music in the first place...

I couldn't find anything online, so if anyone can help point me in the right direction I'd super appreciate it because I'm crazy curious and it's killing my adhd :P

Thanks peoples! Love this movie!

Did you noticed a reincarnation theme in the book or movie? (I personally didn't at the time)
Did you believed in it beforehand?
Do you consider it just part of the fiction or magic of the story?
Did you started to consider it a possibility? (When?)

I'm not trying to maky any religious debate, just pure curiosity.

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Is the whole thing just nesting stories or does it come together in bigger way? I'm currently on Sloosha's Crossin and Ev'rythin' After.

I didn't know a single thing about the book going in, and was expecting high concept post-modernism, but right now it feels like a bunch of short stories that are all minorly connected.

I'm not looking for spoilers about the story, just an expectation of my experience.

Just watched the new teaser trailer of Francis Ford Coppola’s upcoming film Megalopolis and it’s so epic. It’s just like the long trailer Cloud Atlas. I’m wondering if Megalopolis might end up as another great ambitious sci-fi movie regarding the trailer and hype surrounding it. Thoughts?

So, I’ve recently heard a lot of people who didn’t like the Cloud Atlas movie say that Cloud Atlas should instead be a 6-episode TV miniseries with each episode based on a storyline from the book. I completely disagree.

1. Using each plotline from the book as a TV series feels too disjointed. The premise of the book is to show how we are all connected from the past to the present to the future. By separating each of the stories as an episode will feel like six individual stories. The film weaves all the storylines together in an interesting way to make them connected (for example: Luisa Rey’s shower running down ont Sonmi-451, how the ending cuts between Adam and Tilda’s hug at the end, and how Somni’s escape attempt is before the same scene where Autua flies onto the ship)

2. Letting all the stories resolve all at once creates a much more emotional conclusion. I totally understand why the book features a “Russian doll” structure, to not make the stories resolve until the very end. The book is not in the structure (interweaving) like the film because it will be confusing to the reader as written text. Having everything resolve at once gives a much more stronger ending. If we have a TV series we will lose the impactful resolution.

What do you think?

There are few things that I truly call my favorite. Because I find beauty and greatness in so many different things, but without a doubt Cloud Atlas has been my favorite movie for years. I remember watching it with my college buddies back in 2012 before a music festival and having my world turned upside down. Just got done watching it again for the 100th time. Always stirs something deep in my soul every time I watch it. Glad I found this subreddit to see I'm not the only one :)