Imagi-nations

By Stephanie Bunbury
March 1 2013 - 3:00am
Past and future lives cross paths … Tom Hanks and Halle Berry as Zachry and Meronym.
Past and future lives cross paths … Tom Hanks and Halle Berry as Zachry and Meronym.

There is a moment of confrontation in Cloud Atlas when Jim Sturgess, playing the role of a 19th-century American lawyer, returns from an arduous voyage to the south Pacific to tell his pompous father-in-law that, having seen slavery in action, he is joining the abolitionists. The older man is both furious and curdled with contempt. Nothing this young upstart does will make a blind bit of difference, he says. ''You are just a drop in a limitless ocean!''

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