I think the reviewer was over thinking things a bit. It is a ridiculous series of circumstances that allowed all the character to take place in all of these monumental events, and to be inspiring to other people, but the point was that he didn't care to be involved in the images the world built around him. It was his…

Cloud Atlas should have won. To say something is ahead of its time usually is an excuse for things that are just too different to be acceptable. But Cloud Atlas was jaw dropping; the themes weaved beautifully together even beyond the constructs of time, dealing with human nature and playing off of genres by tying them…