I rewatched Cloud Atlas for the first time since it came out in 2012. It feels like a strong contender for one of the most underrated sci-fi movies of the 2010s. The plot was complicated when I watched in theaters, but it was very easy to follow the second time through, and all the different connections and small details make it a fascinating watch. Love the thematic material and the score. How do y’all feel about it?
This is maybe the best piece of contemporary literature I have ever read. The way Mitchell weaves the varying stories together in a sort of literary palindrome is perhaps a bit gimmicky but God damn brilliant nonetheless.
I particularly like the Nietzschean philosophy repackaged by Vyvian Ayrs in the Robert Frobisher Letters. And the author knows what so many of us do about Eternal Recurrence and the nature of Being.
It's a hopeful book, though packed as it is with so many harsh truths. But that's so often the case, right? Harsh truths come best in polite fictions, spoonful of sugar and so on.
So what did you all think?
This Wackowski film leaves me with a similar feeling that I can get from Lynch or Cronenberg. I like it.
If you like a genre bender, interconnected story line with a bit of post-apocalypse thrown into, all of it written in a very ingenious accordion-like way, then you might enjoy Cloud Atlas.
Please, avoid the Cloud Atlas movie.
I was 9 minutes into the Cloud Atlas episode and then I saw that I could just watch Cloud Atlas?!?!? So gunna do that.
It's crazy the ep is 100 minutes. I love the early eps of the show but they're so short!
I have only belatedly got round to reading the book (you can read what I thought of it here) and then watching the film, and I really don’t understand why the film has been so poorly rated – 66% on RT and 7.4/10 on IMDB, and it didn’t even make money at the box office. I am glad to see though that the great Roger Ebert gave it 4/4, and I’m with him: it’s a great film, a tremendous adaption of the book, with some wonderful acting – with most actors playing multiple parts.
Other than the structure it was a faithful transposition of the book, and I think re-working the structure as they did made sense for the film (in fact, I even wonder if the book might not have benefitted from a similar approach... maybe, maybe not, but that’s another argument). Doing it the way they did made it easier to see the deliberately tenuous connections between the stores, and having the actors playing multiple parts across them all worked well for this too.
And I really enjoyed it – which must surely the primary goal of just about any work of art.
For whatever silly reason, I've been spending my time collating films (or TV shows) that could plausibly be cut into Cloud Atlas as yet another incarnation of that story's characters.
Sole arbitrary criteria is that said film/show has to feature at least two of the role-shifting actors from Cloud Atlas, preferably in a plot where they interact with one another. So far I have these (https://boxd.it/3RyF2):
- Paddington (Ben Whishaw, Jim Broadbent)
- Paddington 2 (Ben Whishaw, Jim Broadbent, Hugh Grant)
- A Hologram For The King (Tom Hanks, Ben Whishaw)
- Bridget Jones's Diary (Hugh Grant, Jim Broadbent)
- Bridget Jones's Diary: The Edge Of Reason (Hugh Grant, Jim Broadbent)
- A Very English Scandal (Hugh Grant, Ben Whishaw)
- Jupiter Ascending (James D'Arcy, Bae Doo-Na)
The Brits seem a lot better at this. Any others I've missed?
I agree there’s issues, like the Far Future accents and the mixing of the stories can be a lot to follow. But the ideas are so lovely and creative and heart-wrenching. I would almost want it as an HBO show to really dive into the concept!
I have just memory fragments of a movie, I was probably high or something. I seem to remember an epic timeline or interconnected stories. Like an old past timeline going into the future. There were bluish or greenish, lizard or gecko like aliens, worshiping some kind of artifact that might have been key to their survival or destruction. I'm reminded a little of the Boulan Bathor in Valerian.
Cloud Atlas, and Valerian both come to mind, but I don't think it was either of those. Or maybe my brain has mashed together several movies into one memory 🤣🤷♂️
Hello all,
looking for support on an issue we are experiencing!
We are experiencing an issue that looks like connections dropping and timing out to our databases.
We are running apps(node, java) on Cloud Run and using the Serverless VPC connector to reach our MongoDB Atlas clusters.
These instructions cover how we set it up: https://cloud.google.com/community/tutorials/serverless-vpc-access-private-mongodb-atlas
What we experience is regular errors(every few hours) in our app logs about connections to mongo disconnecting and timing out.
Also on the Mongo Atlas side we see the following type of errors in the logs:
{"t":{"$date":"2021-12-06T21:57:50.567+00:00"},"s":"I", "c":"NETWORK", "id":22989, "ctx":"conn607727","msg":"Error sending response to client. Ending connection from remote","attr":{"error":{"code":9001,"codeName":"SocketException","errmsg":"Connection timed out"},"remote":"<IPADDRESS>","connectionId":607727}}
It looks like the google network is somehow closing the connections but with Cloud Run etc you can't check what's going on under the hood as it's a managed service
We have also tried without the Serverless VPC Connector but the issues continue.
Anyone out there have any ideas or experience any similar issues with Cloud Run and mongo Atlas?
Much appreciated!
Thanks
1.Good: i geeked out when i saw characters from sens8 popping up as characters.
Bad: the action sequences were bad. They had little depth. It felt like a missed oppurtunity to introduce these new set of captains, operators.
Suggestion: just like switch and apox, mouse tank and dozer, they needed some scenes and dialogue to shine.
Good: new morpheus actor was good. The concept of a program manifesting in the real world was cool.
Bad: he didnt feel as important as he should be. He didnt bond with neo or have a heroic or badass action scene as we saw in the original trilogy. The concept of a good agent who have the skills set of an agent but the design of both smith and morpheus was again not emphasized nor capitalized.
Good: smith helping neo was a good surpirse.
Bad: call him mr anderson. At least smile or speak the same way. He didnt feel like smith.
Bad: merovingian and his exiles. Exiles could have had better designs, unique. Merovingian had a frustratinglyshort screentime.
Lots more thoughts but for now i feel that ressurections has lots of cool concepts but poor execution. Action sequences costume design were a step down from the original. The absence of the real morpheus was evident.
“Belief, like fear or love, is a force to be understood as we understand the theory of relativity and principles of uncertainty. Phenomena that determine the course of our lives. Yesterday my life was headed in one direction. Today it is headed in another. Yesterday, i believed i would never have done what i did today. These forces that often remake time and space, that can shape and alter who we imagine ourself to be, begin long after we are born and continue after we perish. Our lives and our choices, like quantum trajectories are understood moment to moment, at each point of intersection, each encounter, suggests a new potential direction.”
