So I guess I am back to watching movies about the military by accident. Back in 2014 when The Edge of Tomorrow was showing in the theaters, an officemate invited me together with our common buddies to see it. That didn't materialize however, and I could still remember how they laughed at me when I heard "The Age of Tomorrow" which incidentally is also another 2014 movie.
Yesterday while rummaging through my files, I found a copy of this film in my HD and decided again to watch as many movies as I can to delete files and give way to new ones since I am about to start another project to hopefully add another milestone in my life. There will be no stopping me now as I have lost everything and so I don't really care much about making mistakes and regrets coz okay, you just move forward because there is no other way. As I have posted a few days prior to my Spain trip, it's too bad life is not like in video games wherein you can save the game before you face big bosses and reload from that save point if ever you get killed fighting a boss.
So anyway, The Edge of Tomorrow is pretty much like what I have thought at that time. William Cage was sent to the battlefield in the midst of war between humans and aliens known as mimics. There he acquired the unusual power of resetting time if he gets killed when he was exposed to an Alpha Mimic's blood and died. He woke up to find that time has been looping and then comes a point wherein he meets Rita Vrataski who's known as the Full Metal Bitch (a reference perhaps to the hit animé Full Metal Alchemist) or the Angel of Verdun. It turns out that Rita also had the same power before until she underwent blood transfusion and lost the ability to reset time. Rita trained Cage over and over for combat and eventually they searched for the location of the Omega, considered to be the cerebrum of the alien species. So in short they only need to destroy Omega and the mimics will be destroyed and humanity will be saved. But the two were able to do this with the J-Squad, a group of misfits but who eventually sacrificed their lives so Rita and Cage can finish the mission. Rita lures the alpha mimic away so Cage can blast the underwater Omega with an explosive and he did so successfully. The explosion that succeeded killed off all mimics and suddenly Cage woke up inside a helicopter. News about the Louvre explosion was being broadcast and Cage saw the J-squad members doing drills. He paid Rita a visit who seemed to have no recollection of everything that happened.
My comment: So whenever time resets, is this absolute time? What happens if two or more humans get the power and one of them dies? Will time reset? This is pretty weird since the other persons may have distorted notions of time. I just happened to think that when Cage dies in every loop, of course life goes on for other people as well, unless with every reset a new dimension is created that will accommodate the reset. Anyway, I am not too knowledgeable about physics and time warps but this is just a basic question I ask. It is unlike Source Code although the loops are similar in that these were key to resolving a problem. At least in Source Code, the reset duration is only 8 minutes except in the end when Colter Stevens was able to enter a whole new reality past the 8 minutes.
Another comment: This film is a film of the underdogs and the misfits who do all the dirty work but do not get recognized. It's pretty much in real life wherein those in position of power and authority are so detached from what's happening on the ground and so we get a world that's getting fucked up all the more by the day. I'm talking not just about government officials but also about "intellectuals" who can only sit in forums and conferences to discuss ideas when in fact these ideas are just theories and not even grounded in reality. And these people all talk high and mighty when they cannot even do simple tasks. I still hope that I will meet a real intellectual in this lifetime. I already met one but he passed away too soon.