Hot summer, hot summer at home, the most pleasant is to eat watermelon, look at the previous classic film, let the impetuous mind purify and calm down, this time turned to a tang brother's science fiction romance film "Edge of Tomorrow".
Sunset at the end of mankind
Edge of Tomorrow is a sci-fi action film directed by Doug Rieman, starring Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, Bill Paxton, Bledan Gleason, Noah Taylor, Cheek Gary, and Dragumil Michik, based on Hiroshi Sakurasaka's 2004 Japanese light novel All You Need Is Kill. Edge of Tomorrow was simultaneously released in the early hours of June 6, 2014 in China and the United States.
The film is set in the background of the mysterious alien creatures attacking the earth, Major Bill Cage died tragically in the first battle, but he was reborn for some unknown reason, and in a cycle of life and death, Bill became more and more aware of the method of defeating the enemy, and finally led to victory.
The science fiction film "Edge of Tomorrow" is also a game-style movie, and the repeated resurrection mode in the film is very similar to the repeated reading of the game, constantly updating and restarting. It seems that the previous very hot game "Angry Birds", at the beginning, we are very unfamiliar with all the rules, only repeated failures and tests, in order to find the best angle and strength, and finally successfully pass the level. And this repeated process of breaking through the level is also the main idea of "Edge of Tomorrow". The so-called failure can also be repeated, the real world gamification, giving it a taste of play. It is this game flavor that has become the reason for the film's high praise, which allows the audience to experience the thrill of the game in the movie.
The film is based on a Japanese light novel, the original book is a war story based on a science fiction background, and repeated rebirths form the main line of the film. After the director Doug Riemann adapted, the story is more compact and the goal is clearer. The protagonist changes from a rookie who knows nothing about war to a master who has experienced hundreds of battles, how to evolve along the way, how to achieve the ultimate goal, all of which are clean and clean, and the audience looks very enjoyable.
Some people describe this film as a sci-fi version of "Groundhog Day" or a war version of "Source Code" because these films have the same idea, that is, to repeat time. The so-called time repetition is to let the protagonist constantly go back to the past and repeat the things that have happened. But only his memories accumulate, but others' memories disappear with the reversal of time. The asymmetry of memory becomes the biggest beauty of the film. Using the asymmetry of memory, the protagonist can accumulate experience through continuous repetition to find the truth. It's like Tom Cruise in the film, a civilian soldier who can't even use a gun, but after constant restart time, he is trained to be a hero who saves the world. This kind of game-like setting has become the most interesting part of the film.
While highlighting the sense of gameplay, the film also has a slightly heavy theme, that is, the experience of life and death. Every time the protagonist Cage dies, he brings a time restart, allowing him to return to a day ago and continue to survive with a new memory. Sounds like a cool thing, but when you think about it, it's horrible. Because the death he faces is real, the pain and horror caused by death are also real. The protagonist has been reborn hundreds of times, which means that he has to endure hundreds of deaths, including witnessing his companions die hundreds of times. Although the film dissolves the fear of death in many entertaining ways, this pessimistic atmosphere actually runs through the film. The repetition of death is to show the preciousness of life, which can also make the last big battle more tense, when the protagonist loses the ability to restart time, the repeated farewell will become a real farewell, and the film will immediately become thrilling.
For sci-fi fans, the film's time-space reversal setting and equipment such as exoskeleton armor are also their flashpoints. From the perspective of time travel, the idea of this film is very clear, constantly restarting the time to get more war experience, and re-brainwashing each restart, this repeated erasure of the setting, you basically can't find too obvious bugs. And exoskeleton armor is the favorite of war science fiction movies in recent years, like Matt Damon's "Elysium Space" last year. Compared with the exquisite space battles, this exoskeleton armor is wild, more industrial, although rough, but more manly, naturally more popular with male audiences.
However, Doug Riemann has always been a director on the Hollywood assembly line, and his works are very smooth and wonderful, but they always lack some spirituality. For films like "Edge of Tomorrow", to admit that this film is very good, it always feels bad. The film is smooth, but it lacks an addictive climax, like the Hong Kong war in Pacific Rim. The film lacks a tense and exciting action scene that makes people's blood flow, and many key places are only the points, and cannot be more in-depth. Including the climactic battle of the film, the setting is also very sloppy, which is somewhat regrettable.
The whole movie, the sense of picture is a bit chaotic, especially the war part, the editing is just right, but it also requires the audience to burn their brains to understand, why can the protagonist not die? Why does it need to die in that one episode? There is a small paragraph in the play that scientists explain the reason, this place believes that it needs to be seen several times, it is best to say that the end is really good, that seeing the heroine's look, the joy of loss and recovery at the same time thinking of the other party does not know all the pain that happened, it is really an unspeakable pain.
I thought it was a science fiction film, and I learned at the end that it was actually a love movie.
The male and female protagonists fight side by side
From the perspective of actor quality, it is undeniable that it is a good movie, Tom Cruise is an omnipotent Mr., he starred in the "Mission Impossible" series I have seen an episode that is not bad, super cool action, tense and dangerous plot, the ending is still in line with the public taste, in February 2019, starring in the action film "Mission Impossible 7", "Mission Impossible 8" by Christopher Macaulay as the director and screenwriter, respectively, scheduled for Release on July 23, 2021, August 5, 2022, the producer also starred, The film has been made into a series, which shows how popular it is.