Cloud Atlas

The Film, The Book, and More

C. L. Beard
4 min readJan 20, 2022

--

Image courtesy Warner Brothers Films

The enigma, the strangeness, the confusion. What is this film? Sci-fi, drama, cops, big man vs little person, comedy, family dynamics exposed. All that is so much to take in from just one film. David Mitchell the author of the book combined all these elements into high-grade pyrotechnics that satisfied me when I read the book the first time and the second time. All these elements were combined…

--

--

C. L. Beard

I am a writer living on the Salish Sea. I also publish my own AI newsletter https://brainscriblr.beehiiv.com/, come check it out