Co-directed by the Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer ( Run Lola Run), and based on the supposedly unfilmable novel by David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas spends three hours jumping between six loosely interconnected stories set from 1849 to 2321. Several actors appear in a majority of the timelines, and stars Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Jim Sturgess, Hugo Weaving, and Hugh Grant feature in all of them, hinting at themes of reincarnation and redemption as small decisions made centuries ago filter down through the ages.
Love and Deepspace has a surprisingly complex science fiction story in which the main character, a woman named and customized by the player, is a "deepspace hunter" who fights creatures called Wanderers, but she also, unbeknownst to her, has been reincarnated multiple times. In all these previous lives, she has met the game's five love interests, and unlocking memories from those past iterations is one of the biggest draws of the game because they not only delve into the game's broader mysteries,