Cloud Atlas - the Movie vs the Book

[pontalba]

In this case I'm glad they did. It made for a wonderful experience IMO which the book was not. I kept waiting and waiting for the positive outcome and I couldn't believe when I read the last word and it never came. I honestly really hate these 'its all going to end in destruction' type books. They offer nothing. And without hope we might as well all just jump off the nearest bridge because there is no point in even trying. However we get it, and where-ever we get it from we need hope. We need to believe that if not today, maybe even not tomorrow, but soon, things will be better in order to keep putting one foot in front of the other and to keep moving forward through life trying to improve ourselves and the world around us.

I prefer realism, to pie in the sky and suffer the disappointment.

 

[Meadow337]

IMO reality is, we need hope.

 

[pontalba]

IMO reality is, we need hope.

But, not false hope. That is more damaging than any imagined reality.