The reason I chose him was he directed the movie "cloud atlas" which has been on my list of "must sees" for awhile! Besides Cloud atlas, I also watched his shorts "True" and "Epilog"
(on a less related note, I also finished watching "eXistenZ" and holy cow that ending was weird but I kinda liked it)
Cloud Atlas was PHENOMINAL. So much so that when the movie was over we all just kinda sat in silence and contemplated what
was real life and what was just the movie. So much so that I also listened to the book the night we finished the movie.
The idea that one life can carry over and be influential to the next life was extremely interesting.
the fact that in a few cases the love interest
was also reincarnated into the life was neat as well and made for a kind of a flowing, strange love story.
this style was carried over into "true" and "epilog" as well. Both were flowing stories about love and a couple.
In true the couple separate after a long montage of their relationship slowly deteriorating. This is the same for
"epilog, except for the the relationship in this one deteriorates in minutes and ends in death.
Tom Tykwer is very good for showing a lot of things happening in a very short amount of time.
for example in true, he shows this couple's entire, multiple year relationship using a bunch of cut shots and some narration but the audience really feels that a lot of time has passed. This happens as well in cloud atlas. The main characters are all technically the same person, over hundreds of thousands of years. but it's filmed in a way that we can real each life individually as the story is being told, without sacrificing any time.
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