Cloudy Atlas

Confusing and Truncated

Watching " Cloud Atlas"  is a real challenge.

There are 6 stories all interspersed within fix periods in time and many of the actors played multiple roles.

Sometimes, one wonders what folly has the producers committed to produce this awesomely difficult movie to comprehend. It is too truncated to make any real sense as some episodes are real cave-man-like, pre-civil rights America  or middle eighteenth century era while neo-Seoul is too futuristic

What is more curious was why such fame names such as Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Hugo Weaving etc wanted to lend their time and name to be a part of this kaleidoscope of  disjointed parts that only a man with limitless patience would want or care to sit through.

I do not want to prejudge this movie but seriously, they could have done something better with that money!

True to Yourself, True to God

Inner Struggles

If you cannot be true to yourself and true to God, you cannot live out your vows as a nun.

And that in gist, is the crux of the tale behind Fred Zimmerman's " The Nun's Story"

The Prohibitive Vows

Played wonderfully by a superb cast from Audrey Hepburn Peter Finch, Dame Peggy Ashcroft to Dame Edith Evans, you can fill the tense inner silence of nuns as they perform their worldly duties as nurses and the conflict between the inviolable vows and stark reality of human feelings.

Sister Luke's failure as a nun is seen through her struggles and the characters around her both in Belgium and in the Congo.

Alluring Audrey

Fred Zimmerman's direction is almost flawless but I would have loved a better ending.

Truly gripping movie, despite it being a 1959 movie.

Dame Edith Evans