'Cloud Atlas' movie is mind-blowing, will make you want to read the book

I watched Cloud Atlas for the first time the other day, and this is one sci-fi movie that blew my mind.

Directed by Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski and Tom Tykwer, this movie is about how the actions of one’s ancestors influence the actions of someone in the present and in the distance future. This movie moves back and forth in time and is set in the South Pacific Ocean in 1849, the United Kingdom in 1936, San Francisco in 1973, the UK in 2012, Korea in 2144, a post-apocalyptic scene after that and then at an off-Earth colony several decades later. The movie’s rated R and was nearly three hours long.

Released in October 2012, this movie featured an all-star cast, including Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Hugo Weaving and Hugh Grant. Shot on a budge of $102 million, it was one of the most expensive independent films ever made. This movie was nominated for numerous awards, including the Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film.

This movie was based on the 2004 novel by the same name written by David Mitchell, and this movie will definitely make you want to read the book. Published by Sceptre, this 544-page book won the British Book Awards Literary Fiction Award and was nominated for a Nebula Award and an Arthur C. Clarke Award. “Cloud Atlas” is one of five books written by Mitchell. The others include “Ghostwritten” (1999), “number9dream” (2001), Black Swan Green (2006) and “The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet” (2010).

In the end, how many of you have watched “Cloud Atlas”? How many of you have read the novel? What did you think about them? Let us know in the comments section below.