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Sunday 16 September 2012

The stories, much adapted and retold from a David Mitchell novel, include characters, times and locations as diverse as a 19th century sailing ship, a futuristic Korea, Aboriginals, young gay intellectuals at Cambridge, a nuclear scientist, a slave, a classical composer and others. There is a good deal of narration, most of it about the nature of human life (and some of it about lives of fabricants). There are chase and action scenes as good or better than the best work by the Wachowskis (the “Matrix” films) and their friend and collaborator Tykwer (“Run, Lola Run”). Moment by moment, scene by scene, story by story, I was enthralled. What did it sum up to? What is the through line? I can’t say. Not today, anyway. Not yet. Maybe there isn’t one. What will its first audiences get out of it? My mind travels back to the first public screening of “2001: A Space Odyssey,” the film the Wachowskis says made them filmmakers, and inspired this one. As Rock Hudson walked out in the middle of the second half, I heard him quite audibly ask, “What the hell was that about? Roger Ebert

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