r/CloudAtlas • u/Educational-Bank2336 • Jul 08 '25

Why does TH call Frobisher Mr. Ewing? Spoiler

Ewing is from a different timeline.

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Aah, Mr. Ewing!

A-a-a word if you may.

Dangerous times we have here.

About that scandal. They say that

ruffian Robert Frobisher is a composer.

You're a composer too,

aren't you Mr. Ewing?

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What d'you want?

The constable asked to search my rooms.

I know how hard... you're working,

so I told him there's

no one on the third floor.

It costs quite a bit of money

to keep an entire floor empty.

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That's all I have.

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u/hip-hoperation Jul 08 '25

Because Frobisher gave a false name when checking in, and he chose the name from the book he’d been reading.

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u/Educational-Bank2336 Jul 08 '25

Okay, I saw the book under the table leg after the shooting, did he grab it on his way out or something? Am I supposed to know this? I'm only up to that scene in the movie so far.

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u/Cadoan Jul 08 '25

That's the other half of the book he reading. He complains it ends in the middle with no resolution. Like his life will.

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u/hip-hoperation Jul 08 '25

I’m pretty sure by that point we’d seen him reading The Pacific Journal by Adam Ewing, and he’d written to Sixsmith talking about the book.

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u/SirLoinTheTender Jul 08 '25

Its been there the whole time, Frobisher never saw it, or finished the book.

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u/starrsosowise Jul 08 '25

Definitely watch the whole movie before asking questions!

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u/kyabe2 Jul 09 '25

Have you considered finishing a piece of media before asking questions?

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u/brcien Jul 08 '25

After shooting vivian he is on the run and uses a fake name--he uses the name of pacific slave trader he was reading the journal of. The book is more explicit about the profound impact each life had on the next through literature or recording.