And it’s not just their words and speeches that resonate down the ages, but also their stories: Just as in Mitchell’s novel, each character tells his or her own story, and each of these stories is shown being read (or in some cases, watched) by the people of the future. Frobisher’s sextet is heard again and again across the film, and Sonmi’s rebellious speech seems to eventually become scripture to the people of the future. One individual’s actions-Sonmi’s standing up against an oppressive corporatocracy, or Robert Frobisher’s completion of his haunting sextet (itself about eternal recurrence)-are shown to have effects reaching far into the future. This theme is also underlined by events in each narrative. However they work, exactly, the device of actors playing multiple characters across time and the device of repeating the birthmark across time both convey one of the film’s major themes: The interconnectedness of all human life. (Note: These characters have the birthmark in the book, and some certainly have it in the movie. The third is a force of good who can see beyond superficial differences of race, sexual orientation, and genetic engineering, and who is represented by various actors, all of whom own the birthmark: budding abolitionist Adam Ewing, the composer Frobisher, journalist Louisa Rey, fabricant Sonmi, and hero of the future Meronym. The second is a force of conservatism, evil, and oppression, who is represented (because it’s a Wachowskis film) by Hugo Weaving.
One, who the Wachowskis have said embodies “ the Everyman,” is played by Tom Hanks. There are essentially three main characters in each story. This interpretation might also help explain how the filmmakers see the six storylines connecting. Perhaps only some actors play the same soul across time-including Tom Hanks and possibly Hugo Weaving-while other actors play different incarnations of the same soul (i.e., the soul with the birthmark). There may be a way to resolve this question. But in the 1930s she’s the mostly silent and occasionally adulterous wife of an egotistical composer. But what about Halle Berry? In 1973, when she’s a muckraking journalist, and in “106 years after the Fall” (well into the future), she’s heroic. Are all the characters played by Hugo Weaving the same soul? Perhaps-they’re certainly all evil. Also: the filmmakers decision to use nearly all of their actors in multiple roles is arguably as confusing as it is clarifying. Henry Goose) to a physicist (Isaac Sachs) to a cockney gangster (Dermot Hoggins) and finally to a troubled tribesman of the post-apocalypse (the Valleysman Zachry) the soul played by Halle Berry goes from being a young Polynesian native to a Jewish composer’s wife (Jocasta Ayrs) to an investigative reporter (Luisa Rey), and so on.īut is it that simple? If Hanks always plays the same soul, then what happened between 19 to turn him from a whistle-blowing scientist into a murderous memoirist? Hanks’ progress, if indeed it’s from a “bad person” to a “good person,” hardly seems to follow a linear path.
To explore the world by income and region with interactiveīold indicates a change of classification.The Wachowskis have suggested that each actor in the movie plays a soul that evolves across time. As they told The New Yorker, “ Tom Hanks starts off as a bad person … but evolves over centuries into a good person.” The soul depicted by Hanks goes from being a murderous quack (Dr.
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