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During the thrashing of an epileptic seizure, an editor stitches together bits of various unrelated shorts into a single movie filled with famous people and great music.

If one can labour past the non science-fiction, it’s pretty good. In fact, I think if one cut out everything except two of the storylines, they would make for good shorts. I may do that one day.

I wouldn’t imagine this to have been a critical success.

• Based on Cloud Atlas (2004 book), by David Mitchell

• Everything Wrong With Cloud Atlas In 24 Minutes Or Less

  • by CinemaSins

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• 1:45 — What the fuck was all that?
• 2:45 — Wow, this movie is self-aware, begging the audience to like the movie..

• 4:30 —

  Truth is singular.
  Its versions are mistrust.

• .. and I recognize her. I can’t place from where.

  • Oh, I recognize her from this movie.
• 5:15 — Pacific Islands, 1849

• 6:15 — “Moore’s ladder of civilization”

  • This could be regarding Archimandrite Lazarus Moore’s translation of The Ladder of Divine Ascent ISBN 0943405033
• 9:30 — Cambridge United States, 1936
• 10:30 — Edinburgh?
• 11:00 — Robert Frobisher is fictional.

• 12:30 — Heptatonic scale, Minor scale, D minor

  • Time signature
• 13:30 — Oh god that’s awful.
• 14:30 — San Francisco United States, 1973
• 15:15 — Age of Chivalry

• 16:15 — Spyglass Magazine is fictional.

  • Louisa Ray, Journalist, Interview
  • Rufus Sixsmith
  • Lester Ray
• 18:30 — Journalism ethics and standards.
• 19:15 — London England, 2012
• 19:30 — Publisher

• 20:15 —

  Mister Haggins should apologize to the trees felled for the making of his bloated autobio novel four-hundred vain-glorious pages expire in an ending that is flat and inane beyond belief.

• 24:30 — Neo Seoul South Korea, 2144

  • A play on Neo Tokyo
• 25:00 — The odd hair exaggerating their rounded head is a beauty style in South Korea. Since they generally have “flat heads” at the back, shaped hair makes a wearer stand out.
• 25:45 — I think I recognize the ass-grabber.
• 26:00 — The first catechism is “honour thy consumer”.
• 27:00 — Una 939
• 31:15 — Forcing her death in public is just silly. It’s bad for business, for one.
• 31:30 — Big Isle, 106 winters after The Fall.
• 32:30 — Oh my, that looks like Hugo Weaving, from The Lord of the Rings – The Fellowship of the Ring – (2001 movie)
• 35:15 — This obnoxious talking needs subtitles.
• 39:15 — Sonmi 451
• 46:00 — Rad level = Radiation exposure
• 47:30 — Oh, I was right about it being Hugo Weaving.
• 48:45 — .. why ever would that look like a suicide?
• 53:30 — The Revelation of Sonmi 451 – As recorded by Archivist Park
• 57:45 — Only a handful of copies in all of North America? Then it would be stupidly-valuable.
• 1:01:30 — I’m confused about the entire storyline with her. If she’s from offworld, then she has a ship. If she has a ship, then walking is fucking retarded. Describing some sort of difficulty landing there would be useful, even if describing how they can’t show they’re space-faring.
• 1:08:45 — “Soylent green is made of people!” is from Soylent Green – (1973 movie)

• 1:09:30 —

  You can maintain power over people as long as you give them something. Rob a man of everything, and that man will no longer be in your power.

  — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

• 1:11:45 — “Women’s lib” = Feminist movement.

  • .. no relation to today.
• 1:14:00 — The brother’s age-makeup looks terrible.
• 1:24:15 — Carlos Castaneda
• 1:30:30 — Workplace harassment.
• 1:36:15 — How couldn’t someone tell if a phone is being pulled out of their pocket like that? Sigh.
• 1:46:45 — Oh, so she’s from on-world..

• 1:50:45 — Korean War

  • The guy on the left reminds me Denzel Washington.
• 1:52:00 — “Judasin” is a reference to Judas Iscariot and the Kiss of Judas.
• 1:53:00 — PLO = Palestine Liberation Organization
• 1:54:00 — Big Oil
• 2:07:00 — Don’t they have the keys? I guess “the female” isn’t out there with them..
• 2:09:00 — He fired all six rounds.
• 2:10:00 — Wow, they kept track of bullets. He also used a Speedloader.
• 2:14:00 — “Wetback“
• 2:16:15 — The door was locked.
• 2:31:45 — Why ever would he kill himself, if he saw his love? None of this makes sense..
• 2:35:30 — The hell that’s a fucking disturbingly ugly woman.

• 2:38:30 — She’s his daughter. How?

  • Also, what’s this about a contact? I wasn’t paying attention to what it was in the first place, and now I have no clue what all this is about.

• 2:41:30 — What. I guess they’re in the same solar system, perhaps..