Movies can be described in countless ways: Tom's thousand ways to die; infinite loops to pick up girls; source code of Elysium Edition... Fans who love games can also find more interesting descriptions: Game Xiaobai The difficult upgrade road; the handicapped party kills the dead; who stole my plug-in... But the author decided to describe this film as: S/L Dafa classic teaching material. This film can't help but remind me of the painful rewind experience of playing Baldur's Gate and Dark Souls.
The plot of the movie is extremely simple: the boss has an invincible plug-in that can reset the game time of the day at any time. Brother A Tang is a rookie in the game. During the first game, he accidentally obtained the function of plug-in, which can read the archive at any time. In order to eliminate the boss, Tom used the S/L method to keep going back, accumulate experience, and seek the best game route. In the end, Brother Tom killed the boss and completely won the boss's plug-in. So, in order to make a perfect save, Tom resolutely reverted to a day ago and started over again. In order to pick up girls, he even seriously lowered the difficulty of the game.
Many people think that this film is very similar to the source code, so they think it is a copycat source code. This is actually wrong. It is true that in the form of the film, the two are almost exactly the same. They both continuously execute a period of time in a loop, and then rewrite the events. Through repeated attempts, they finally succeeded in reversing. However, the time reincarnation of the two films is fundamentally different.
Let’s talk about the source code first. The time reincarnation of the source code can be regarded as jumping the train, jumping from the A train to the B train, from the B train to the C train, and so on. The protagonist keeps jumping onto the train a few minutes ago, pouring his consciousness into a person's brain in an attempt to find a bomb to save the train. The length of the reincarnation period is fixed and cannot be changed, that is, the bomb countdown time. In the end, the consciousness of the protagonist was separated from the time and space of the body, and remained in the mind of the man who jumped on and saved the train for the last time.
In this Edge of Tomorrow, the ability of time reincarnation allows the user to reset the time of the whole day. We can see that the length of time before Tom's death varies from time to time, although none of them lasts for more than a day. According to the movie, the official beach battle is "tomorrow", which is the day after Tom arrives at the boot camp, so every time he is resurrected is the time when he was caught in the boot camp. The last time, he blew up the enemy's time machine Omega at midnight on the day he arrived at the boot camp, and gained the ability to reset the time again. Therefore, at this time, the reset time point went back to the beginning of the whole movie, which is A The moment when Brother Tong took the helicopter to find the general. There's an important synchronizing signal here: Tom blew up the Omega and released a powerful energy, and when he went back to the beginning to go to the general, he saw the news on TV that the military had detected the energy signal at midnight, and The enemy suddenly weakened. This means that the change takes effect, the reset is successful, and this reincarnation occurs in the same space-time domain. This Edge of Tomorrow is more like Tom, starting from a point in time and constantly going through different futures to find the best future route.
Different from the parallel time and space of the source code that goes back to the past to change the history of that parallel time and space, Edge of Tomorrow is constantly resetting the future of this time and space to change the history of this time and space. Of course, the outcome of both is the same, both changed history.
In fact, the author of this film is sleepy. I have always heard that although the film is adapted from a light novel called Killing Samsara, it is still an original sci-fi script. However, the author did not feel much sci-fi atmosphere in the human army in the movie. Aside from the black technology of the imitators aliens in the movie, the technological level of human beings can be said to be the past + present + very near future. Edge of Tomorrow reminds me of the Battle of Los Angeles and Elysium. Although the Battle of Los Angeles was about fighting aliens, the soldiers used modern warfare weapons, and it was still a modern warfare movie at heart. Although Elysium is taking the realistic route, the technological content of the mechanical armor is quite advanced, and it has a very obvious effect on enhancing the soldiers' athleticism and combat effectiveness. On the edge of tomorrow, that bulky set of mechanical armor with an external battery as a power source, no matter how you look at it, it seems to be an industrial design of a sci-fi film in the 1970s and 1980s, and it is not the style of a 21st century network information age at all.
Overall, this film has no climax, no exciting battles, no precious battlefield love between male and female protagonists, only cliché reincarnation settings, sharp editing, many inexplicable laughs, and an unsuccessful girl named Tom.
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