What Just Happened…Someone Explain Cloud Atlas Please

This is something that rarely happens to me.  A movie that’s so confusing I just don’t get it. I’m not dumb.  I swear. I didn’t have to watch Momento in reverse.  I didn’t get stuck in purgatory during Inception. And yes, I knew the kid was dead in the Sixth Sense.

But Cloud Atlas…that movie was one of the most confusing movies I’ve ever seen.

What time period are we in? Is that Tom Hanks? No, that’s Tom Hanks. Is Halle Berry Asian now? Is that the birthmark or a smudge of dirt?

Still confused? Yeah, me too.  Luckily, this infographic helps explain how everything is connected in Cloud Atlas.

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