{"id":12949,"date":"2018-10-30T13:51:27","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T17:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=12949"},"modified":"2018-10-30T14:14:04","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T18:14:04","slug":"cloud-atlas-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/cloud-atlas-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Atlas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;I will not be subjected to criminal abuse.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cloud Atlas<\/strong>, released in 2012<\/p>\n<p>In 1849 an escaped slave stows away on a boat, revealing himself to a lawyer who he believes is a good man &#8212; unbeknownst to the lawyer, his doctor is trying to kill him to get his money. In 1973 a journalist comes across evidence that someone is going to create a nuclear reactor disaster &#8212; she soon has people trying to kill her. In 2144 a clone who works in a restaurant is introduced to radical ideas about what she should be allowed to do &#8212; she escapes from the restaurant but authorities won&#8217;t rest until they capture her.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This movie goes back and forth between several storylines &#8212; it might be a bit confusing at first, but stick with it.<\/p>\n<p>A bunch of actors play different roles in different storylines. The connections between the storylines are subtle.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about freedom.&nbsp;I liked it even more this time.<\/p>\n<p>Stars Tom Hanks and Halle Berry. Directed by Tim Tykwer (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/a-hologram-for-the-king\/\"><strong>A Hologram for the King<\/strong><\/a>) and the Wachowskis (the TV show <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/sense8-season-1\/\"><strong>Sense8<\/strong><\/a>). The music by&nbsp;Reinhold Heil, Johnny Klimek, and Tom Tykwer builds to a glorious finale.<\/p>\n<p>This is the 2nd time I&#8217;ve seen it. My earlier review is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/cloud-atlas\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;I will not be subjected to criminal abuse.&#8221; Cloud Atlas, released in 2012 In 1849 an escaped slave stows away on a boat, revealing himself to a lawyer who he believes is a good man &#8212; unbeknownst to the lawyer, his doctor is trying to kill him to get his money. In 1973 a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6,5,8],"class_list":["post-12949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-movie","tag-review","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12949"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12963,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12949\/revisions\/12963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}