Tomorrow after Tomorrow - Watching "Edge of Tomorrow" has a feeling

2014's Edge of Tomorrow, starring Tom Cruise, tells the story of a warrior who keeps going back in time. Scripts that travel through time and space will always create a lot of topics to discuss, and this film is no exception.

Our time and space seem to be one-dimensional, that is, once time is lost, it will not come again, which is why we always use the sense of urgency to encourage ourselves to work hard, but once we know that we can repeat a certain period of time, will we have a reason to continue to work hard?

The same films such as "Accidental Space" and "Horror Cruise" have interpreted this problem from different perspectives, and unlike the last two films, "Edge of Tomorrow" has added heroism to save mankind, which makes the film not only discuss an abstract problem of time and space, but also explore the blindness and randomness of individual heroism.

The male protagonist Cage is inexplicably involved in a war with alien creatures, who expected that at the moment when he was stabbed to death by aliens, he actually obtained some kind of inheritance of alien creatures, which gave him some kind of ability to control time, of course, this ability is limited to returning to the previous day at the cost of his death.

When he realized this problem, his fear of death led him to try to persuade his companions not to make fearless sacrifices, but the prediction of the future was so fantastic that no one believed him, and even if he showed everyone his ability to foresee, it had little effect.

The story always has to be told, it is obvious that he alone can not prevent a war, so the director added another woman who had the same experience as him but has now lost control of time, of course, all science fiction movies are always indispensable to a genius scientist like a psychopath, so far, the three of them fight a small formation.

The next story, as many netizens commented, is a game-playing process, in the continuous death and back to the past experience, Cage is trained quite strong, he changed from a weak student to a strong warrior, the fear of death evolved into a sense of justice to prevent this unequal war.

If a person wants to become a hero, he must first be strong, otherwise everything can only be on paper and just a laughingstock.

Cage's strength greatly strengthened his possibility of becoming a hero, and in the process of fighting again and again with alien creatures, the death of his comrades around him stimulated his nerves again and again, and even if he knew that he could go back to the past after he died, but that kind of nostalgia for life and comradeship also made him gradually completely walk out of the state of not caring about himself.

How much ability a person has, how much responsibility he must bear, which seems absurd, but it is often recognized by the world. Cage had no choice but to completely disappear alien beings if he wanted to end it all, and when this individual need was in perfect harmony with the collective need, his individual heroism exploded completely.

We have learned a lot of heroes since childhood, some of them are PLA soldiers, some are ordinary people, although their roles are different, but the biggest similarity is that their brave and hard work is to save the lives of others.

The film places Cage in a cycle of constant suffering, similar to Prometheus stealing fire for humans, except that the latter pays the price for what he has done, while the former is completely accidental.

Back to our reality, is this repetition possible? Maybe there is, such as we go to work day after day, saying the same thing year after year, if it were not for the children growing up and the gray hair on our heads, who would really think that we are old? When we are caught in this cycle, the persistent pain gradually numbs our nerves, and in the process of rushing to death together, we have completely given up the struggle for time.

Tomorrow will be a new day, but where is this "new"? Looking back on the past years, those moments that are worth our expectations are so rare, but if we say that the rest of the day we are living a walking dead life, it will not only be sad, but also get our denial from the inside out, after all, who dares to say that people who can breathe and eat and can talk nonsense are not living people?!