I will not be subjected to criminal abuse.

[dogknob]

The October 26 release of Cloud Atlas is not a coincidence. Neither is the flurry of "This is HARD! Stop It! Gotta read the book or the movie doesn't make sense" reviews currently spewing out the MSM-hole.

The douchebags who own our culture would rather not deal with millions of theater patrons on their way to the polls with this (repeated) line from the film fresh in their minds:

I will not be subjected to criminal abuse.

That line should be the official motto of progressives everywhere and most of us won't even hear it until Thanksgiving.

Yeah, the film intertwines six (6!) storylines, all set in different time periods, and jumps between them seamlessly. Did you make it through Annie Hall's flashbacks-within-fantasies-within-animated-sequences OK? No permanent brain damage? You will have no problems with Cloud Atlas.

The "After The Fall" section's dialogue is spoken in a dialect resembling English and you might not pick up every line, but did that stop you from understanding A Clockwork Orange or Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels? Probably not. Heck, in one segment of Cloud Atlas, a nearly unrecognizable Hanks plays a British gangster-turned-author who handles bad reviews in a rather unforgettable fashion.

Instead of spending your Sunday on-edge about Tuesday -- nervously watching football and wondering if the rest of our lifetimes will be spent in a country where that sport holds more space in our collective conscience than collective bargaining -- do yourself and your friends, lovers, etc. a big solid: GO SEE CLOUD ATLAS!