In an industry full of bland, empty blockbuster filmmaking that feel like they were created in a executive office, having unique, ambitious filmmakers like Baz Luhrmann (along with The Wachowski Sisters) bringing their own personal visions to the silver screen is now more important than ever. Most of Luhrmann's films attempt to combine the techniques and mythologies of stage theatrics and motion pictures while contorting these standard conventions to fit the medium of film; which Ana Kristel Gamboa calls in…

Within the universe of Cloud Atlas, experiences and stories of past lives (in the boundaries of spoken, written, visual, and auditory media) impact the future in positive or negative means. Race, gender, and sexuality are only illusions; distractions of our main purpose. Instead, each individual life are tightly bound together by relationships and encounters with one another. As characters create missteps for themselves and slowly attempt to redeem each fault throughout their existence, the film opens itself up more and…