The purpose of this cross-cultural (and cross-gender) swapping is to highlight how the choices each soul makes can affect so many others across time and even space in ways that can never be known. So, it's not only the white actors who perform other races or ethnicities for example Halle Berry plays a white woman in 1936 and a Korean woman in 2144, and Doona Bae plays a white woman in 1849 and a Mexican woman in 1973. While a number of groups criticized the choice to have the same actors in multiple roles, this decision does also help the audience follow the journeys of specific souls across hundreds of years, even when these characters are members of different races and cultures from the actors playing them.
#Cloud atlas movie
We see that Zachry has the comet birthmark on the back of his head, as the movie ends playing Frobisher's haunting symphony. "Cloud Atlas" closes decades later with Zachry telling this tale to his and Meronym's grandchildren, as they look upon Earth from afar. Zachry and Catkin go with Meronym out into the great yonder. Zachry confronts the darker shadows of his nature, and with the help of Meronym, saves his own soul, as well as that of his niece Catkin (Raevan Lee Hanan). Picking up from where their souls left off in 1973, Zachry and Meronym have a special connection that's continually tested, first by Zachry's mental illness, and next by the Kona, a cannibalistic group, who murders almost all of Zachry's fellow Valleysmen. It's the same satellite from which Sonmi transmitted her manifesto in 2144. Zachry's life is upended with the arrival of a Prescient - humans who now live in outer space - named Meronym (Halle Berry), who has arrived to mend a satellite on Mauna Loa that would help her people in different galaxies.
Finally, Luisa and her allies prevail, and she returns all of Sixsmith's papers to his beloved niece Megan (Zhu Zhu). Luisa seeks help from Joe (Keith David), a friend of her father Lester (played by Autua actor David Gyasi), and Smoke tries to kill them both. Hooks and Smoke are determined to cover all traces of this conspiracy, so Smoke goes after Luisa next, and nearly kills her by running her car off a bridge. She and Sachs have an instant connection, but he's killed when Smoke plants a bomb on his airplane. At the same time, she finds Frobisher's gorgeous letters to Sixsmith, and meets Dr.
The oil lobbyist Lloyd Hooks ( Hugh Grant) actually wants there to be a devastating nuclear mishap to bolster oil sales, so he sends Bill Smoke (Hugo Weaving) to assassinate Sixsmith, who's about to give Luisa proof of the issues with the plant. Sixsmith gets killed, and Luisa begins investigating his death. He notices Luisa has the same comet birthmark as Frobisher, and when he shows her a photo of his family, his brother is played by Jim Sturgess and his sister-in-law is Doona Bae (who played Adam Ewing and his wife Tilda in the 1849 section). In the years since Frobisher's death, Sixsmith has become a well-known scientist, and he now is prepared to whistleblow on a faulty nuclear plant outside San Francisco.
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