The concept of traveling through time has been described in many Hollywood science fiction films, and it is also the story that the protagonist repeats for a day. As early as in Bill Murray's romantic comedy "Falling Love", it has been well-known to audiences. The special thing about "Edge of Tomorrow" is the careful arrangement of many plot fragments, allowing the audience to connect all the clues of the story. Compared with other obscure or superfluous sci-fi blockbusters, "Edge of Tomorrow" is just right for the details of the story.
From the beginning to the end of the film, the background of the alien invasion is not elaborated, but the focus of the conflict is directly on the direct confrontation with the aliens. In the many fuzzy and chaotic news clips at the beginning of the film, the audience who has been influenced by countless war alien movies can already capture clues to the background of the film from the broken fragments. When William wakes up in the barracks, the audience is almost as violently pushed into a world that he seems to know but has countless problems like the protagonist.
In the process of each resetting time of William, the audience together with him captured more and more information, from the number of alien attacks to organizational analysis, from the words and actions of comrades-in-arms to the character background, all new discoveries Almost all the screens are synchronized up and down. The director loses the known and adds the unknown every time he crosses, so that the plot does not appear to be repeated and keeps catching people. Many small passages of the story are very exquisite when viewed individually. For example, William landed on the beach for the first time and saw his comrades who were hit by the wreckage of the spacecraft. From watching his comrade-in-arms be killed, to saving him and being smashed, to saving his comrades and successfully protecting themselves, to finally giving up their comrades to see him being smashed, this small chapter itself completes a small cycle.
