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My second screening at TIFF was a movie I’ve been highly anticipating and has major hype around it, Cloud Atlas. From the creators of the Matrix trilogy comes a movie starring Tom Hanks and Halle Berry about six different story’s crossing each others paths in different points of time. I thought this movie would be particularly interesting to compare with Freytag’s triangle that we learned in class.
There are six different stories and one major story combining all of them together. I’ll skip to the chase and say that all six of the stories do follow the normal triangle structure. The big picture however loosely follows it if you consider it a normal plot structure.
There is an opening seen showing the connection of all the stories. What ever happened in the story (time period) earlier to the other one is acknowledged in that current story. To clear that up that means the story happening in the 70’s is being acknowledged by the story in 2012, and the 2012 story is being acknowledged by the future story past that and so on, but no story jumps an extra generation just the one after it.
All six stories’ rising action and climax coincide with each other so all the stories end at the same time (unlike novel where climax’s start at middle and go counter clockwise starting with the farthest in the future ending first).
This probably hasn’t helped much because it’s a movie you have to watch to understand...
