Crying shame that Cloud Atlas didn't get ANYTHING. I mean, on the minor level, it should've at least gotten some consideration for Film Editing and quite possibly Best Original Score - on a personal note it should've also been up for Best Picture and possibly Best Director, though that's tricky because of the whole triple-director thing. But I guess you only recognize how flawlessly the film editing and music are pulled off if you're actually enjoying it.
It really amuses me how some of the reviews trashing Cloud Atlas claimed you'd only be able to understand it if you'd read the book, when it is actually a very different creature, what with simultaneous presentation of the stories and TOTALLY different (much more pessimistic) connotations to the endings of the individual stories.
It really amuses me how some of the reviews trashing Cloud Atlas claimed you'd only be able to understand it if you'd read the book, when it is actually a very different creature, what with simultaneous presentation of the stories and TOTALLY different (much more pessimistic) connotations to the endings of the individual stories.
Rather than delivering her dramatic manifesto, she is arrested shortly after writing it, and it is held up as a justification for why fabricants mustn't be allowed to reach consciousness. Sonmi confides in the archivist that she expected this, having realized that the Union Rebellion was another cog in society, designed to attract dissidents to where they couldn't do any harm and provide an enemy to justify the semi-benevolent totalitarian state. The only light note to the whole ending was that, having recognized what she'd do, she wrote her manifesto knowing that it'd be read by many as dissident nonsense, but made it as convincing as possible - and as a result, pretty much all of society collapses. So, basically, turns out to be a more up-to-date Brave New World. Loved reading it, but still, a VERY different creature from the movie, which its excellent in its own right.