Watch the "Science Fiction Epic" "Cloud Altas" directed by the Wachowski brothers and sisters ("The Matrix") and the German director Tom Tikwei ("Lola Run"). The film is adapted from the novel of the same name by David Michell (2004). The original six narrative lines are intertwined, such as a matryoshka; the film uses the classic cross-editing method-this has been skillfully used in Griffith's "Party Facing Differences" in 1916 to create suspense and enhance speed Sense, and suggest the universality of human experience. "Cloud Atlas" is a mixture of various types of elements in the stories of different periods, such as melodramas, love stories, suspense dramas, sci-fi and video games... But despite being an independent production work, it has huge ambitions, stereotypes, and full of craftsmanship. Lack of emotion and depth of thought. Of course, the use of superb makeup skills allows actors to play different roles beyond the limitations of age, gender, and race, which is an interesting experiment.
Among the six stories of "Cloud Atlas", the stories taken by Tikwei took place in the 1930s, 1970s and contemporary times, while the Wachowski brothers and sisters have a more distant past and future. The former has more interesting details and emotional depth, while the latter emphasizes more technical and technical wonders, lacking emotional and ideological levels. Western actors play the roles of Asian males with thin eyes, and the erotic displays of obsession with Eastern women are the usual methods of Hollywood, which will not change for a century. Although there are many strong women in the film, the narrations are all male "authoritative" voices, which are also classic Hollywood movie techniques. From the perspective of race and gender, Yuntu is rather conservative. Compared with the original novel, the film emphasizes the "fortune cookie" style of popular preaching philosophy and suppresses the political level. It also lacks criticality due to excessive indulge in audiovisual spectacles.
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