The first setting is 1849 in the South Pacific as Adam Ewing, an attorney from San Francisco, heads to the Pacific Islands to meet with a plantation owner (played by Hugh Grant). Let's start with the basic plot of the movie - but keep in mind that these stories are woven together over the whole movie. It's only natural to emerge with your head spinning and lots of questions. The stories are threaded together from the beginning of the movie, with some of the connections made more obvious and some made.
In the book, we get these stories one at a time, until the author circles back around to them halfway through the narrative. They turned six overlapping stories into more concentric circles than the author had himself. See the movie, then come back here and we'll explain it to you.ĭavid Mitchell, the author of "Cloud Atlas," told the Paris Review in 2010 that "'Cloud Atlas' is a novel about whose echoes, eddies and cross-references even its author possesses only an imperfect knowledge.” Yet the directors of the new film - Tom Twyker, Lana Wachowski and Andy Wachowski - took a different approach to Mitchell’s brilliant book.
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