There’s an obvious futility in comparing a book to the subsequent movie, but ‘Cloud Atlas’ is no mere adaptation: it’s a big, ambitious structural overhaul, one that has been likened by Mitchell, amongst others, to a mosaic, all of his Russian dolls smashed to pieces and carefully reassembled.
Elizabeth Minkel, “Filming the Unfilmable: On David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas”

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    I wrote a thing! About “Cloud Atlas,” book and movie and book—>movie. (Spoiler: I have mixed feelings.)
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