a. The "reset ability" is simply referred to as "R energy"
b. Humans with R energy also have R energy blood. The way to lose R energy is R energy blood flow
c, possess R energy and complete People who have reset at least once will have "reset memory", referred to as "R memory" (the amnesia is not considered, and the film does not involve amnesia).
Therefore, we can divide the relationship between humans and reset into four categories: Category
A) No People with R ability and no R memory category
B) People with R ability and R memory
category C) People without R ability and R memory (in the film, this situation is almost always: there was R ability, after Blood transfusion loses R-energy)
D) People who have R-energy and no R-memory-this is not discussed, and the film is not covered. The reason why this fourth type is almost impossible to appear is the moment when you first have R-energy It will inevitably complete the virgin reset to have the first R recall
. Here is the key point: In the
real timeline where there is only one and only one in history, both Rita and Cage have completed and only completed a truly effective reset. As for The monster brain Omega has completed several times, let's talk about it separately.
The so-called "effective" is embodied in: 1. Both she and him suddenly changed from an ignorant self to a self full of memories, so memory became a powerful weapon; 2. The impact of this reset will be imprinted forever In the rest of life, it will always be engraved in human history and will no longer be replaced by other resets. (Note: The other resets of Rita and Cage are also "effective" to some extent, because those resets affect their memory, but they are only memories, which indirectly affect human history) The
only true timeline is this :
Wait a minute, the film doesn’t seem to have a clear date. For ease of understanding, our virtual dates are as follows:
1. The day Cage went to see the general in Whitehall and was transported to the airport was June 6th.
2. The beach landed on June 7th.
3. Verdun's great victory, March of that year is
good, and the only real timeline: (ABCD...arranged in linear chronological order)
A. In February, before Rita's last reset (at this time, Class A Rita), Rita is still An ordinary soldier has the same combat ability as ordinary people.
B. One day before March, the monster brain Omega completed a reset. It used memory to make a decision: Let humans win at Verdun.
C. In March, Verdun The day before the Battle of Rita, Rita completed the last reset. In an instant, the Class A Rita disappeared and replaced by the Class B Rita
D. In March, when the Battle of Verdun was carried out, the Class B Rita used the accumulated 300+ resets. The combat ability killed hundreds of Yisha (this became the material for Cage to use for propaganda later), but at the end of the battle, Rita was injured and was not killed. The unconscious
and unconscious Rita was transfused with blood. Through some special perception, knowing you can lose R, B Rita Rita become class C, class C is thereafter forever Rita
F, in March, the end of the battle of Verdun, mankind has made victory
G, April and May, Cage (at this time, Category A Cage) is engaged in propaganda. The recovered Rita continues to train. Humans prepare for the beach landing
H. On June 6, Cage took a helicopter to Whitehall to meet General
I. On June 6, Cage completed the last reset (Note: Omega also Complete a reset at the same time, because the reset of Cage is equal to the reset of Omega. Of course, this last reset of Cage and Omega is the most difficult to understand. We will talk about it later, here we will only talk about external phenomena, not internal principles), external phenomena Yes:
——I.1) In an instant, the Category A Cage in the helicopter disappeared, and replaced by Category E Cage (not Category B or Category C, but Category E. What is Category E will be discussed later, but it doesn’t matter now) )
——I.2) Omega is dead, and a lot of energy surges are generated, and the reset mechanism will never exist
J. Humans have observed a surge of energy and found that Yisha has completely retreated. The general began to prepare a press conference.
K. On June 6, the Category E Cage stepped off the helicopter, and the female officer told him that Yisha had completely retreated. Cage then saw the live broadcast of the general’s press conference on TV.
L. On June 6, Cage went to the airport and saw the brothers in Class J running. Cage walked to Rita’s camp and walked to the work. In front of Rita of yoga, Rita straightened up. At this time, for Rita, it was the first time I met Cage (it doesn’t count to catch a glimpse of Cage on TV), and for Cage, it was the Nth time I met Rita. The film is "If life is just like the first time I saw it". The
above is the history that really happened in reality, and the rest of the plot is unreal history, in other words, the history that only exists in the memory of Cage or Rita.
Okay, let’s not sort out these unreal histories for the time being. Let’s discuss a few key reset setting difficulties:
(1)
We have to make it clear that a conventional setting of time-traveling science fiction films is that of the time-traverser itself. The timeline is not affected by the crossing, especially his memory, not affected by the crossing. In other words, the timeline of the time-traveler itself keeps moving forward in a straight line. Why these movies are essentially linear narratives, because the memory of the protagonist (the time-traveler) grows linearly.
Well, under this general rule, it is divided into two categories: (Note: There are many kinds of time travel works. This is not a "category" that covers everything. It is just a small category to find a reference for the film; also note: "Source Although the plot outline of "Code" is very similar to this film, "Source" is essentially a virtual world).
One category is like "Back to the Future" and "Looper". The self and the passing self are two independent subjects (that’s why there is the classic confrontation at execution in Looper)
The second category is like "X-Men: Reversing the Future" and this film, where the traveler returns to the past and replaces or partially replaces the past self. "Reverse the Future" is a partial replacement, only a replacement of consciousness, not a physical body, so Wolverine is still a terrapin bone claw; this film is reset, ok, what is reset? It is a partial replacement. Very complicated part to replace: (Note: This is about human reset, monster’s wait)
1) Replacing consciousness, so with R memory, Cage’s increased combat skills after training will also be retained
2) Do not replace the body, come from the future The body is fragmented, and the body is intact after reset.
3) Replace the blood, or more accurately, some mysterious substance related to R energy in the blood has been retained (this mysterious substance has the following Features: a. Will be emptied by transfusion b, cannot be transmitted to other humans through blood or sexual intercourse c. When this substance is emptied, people can feel it and know that they have lost R energy forever. Well, we call this substance for short “R substance”)
Therefore, in the reset of Cage or Rita:
1) Consciousness
2) The R substance in the blood is
retained, the body is reset, and the rest of the entire world (except monsters) is also reset
. Because there is R substance in the blood, Cage does not have to be contaminated with Alpha blood every time to have R energy.
(2)
We will immediately ask a question above. Then, what is the monster's own thing retained during reset?
Okay, then you have to ask, what is a monster?
Looking back at the words of the old scientist:
1. The monster is a complete biological organism, and a single silver different evil/blue different evil is a component of this organism
2. The silver different evil is doing physical work, similar to human muscles. Blue Alpha is a central nerve cell
3. The monster’s brain is called Omega (the monster itself is not called Omega, so be careful not to confuse it). The death of a single Alpha will automatically trigger Omega to perform a reset.
These are known facts. Below, let’s make some reasonable guesses about monsters and reset. , First give a reasonable guess 1:
Cage killed an Alpha when he first participated in the beach landing, and his body was filled with Alpha’s blood, so Cage was mistaken for an Alpha by Omega. This is why the death of Cage triggers reset
In addition, suppose that the Alpha killed by Cage is called Xiaoming. After Cage was reset for the first time, did Xiaoming come back to life? The answer is that there is actually no resurrection, but Omega thought it was resurrected. Let’s go back to the scene where Xiao Ming was killed: Xiao Ming was blown to pieces and lost. At the same time, there is a relatively complete body (Cage) next to it. There is a lot of Xiao Ming’s blood in this body. If you are an Omega, you will not Would you mistake Cage for Xiao Ming? Can.
Therefore, reasonable speculation 1: After the explosion, Cage was mistaken for the Alpha called Xiao Ming by Omega. After that, every death of "Xiao Ming" would trigger reset.
Reasonable speculation 2: After a reset is over, the death Alpha that triggered this reset is Will be resurrected. This point comes from the fact that Cage will be resurrected. Moreover, as a central nervous cell, Alpha has the obligation to carry memory, so the memory on Alpha will not be reset. In Cage, Cage’s consciousness will not be reset. This is necessary for Omega, because if Alpha The key memory of the body (in the war, it is the key information) is also reset, and the reset itself is of little significance.
Therefore, it is also Omega that allows Cage to retain consciousness after reset. Others are aware of the physical reset. (By the way, the time traveler pretends to be the nerve cells of the monster to travel through time. This is the time travel type in this film. An innovation on the previous page).
Reasonable guess 3: After a reset is over, after the Alpha that triggered the reset is resurrected, it will wake up at some point in the day or so before its death. This time point is fixed for a period of time, that is, Omega will not calculate the exact 24 hours from the Alpha death time point and then reset at that point, but choose another relatively fixed time point (for example, select 8 :00 is a fixed point, so whether you die at 23:30 or 2:00 the next morning, you will reset back to 8:00).
We call this relatively fixed point "R point". The most commonly used point R in the film is the point in time when Cage wakes up at the airport. It can be guessed that point R should be a harbor with relatively good mooring conditions selected by Omega after measuring the topography of the river for the entire time. In the Battle of Verdun, the point where Rita resets back again and again is another R point.
Well, having said so much, we have the ability to go back and answer the question at the beginning of (2): What is the monster's own thing retained during reset? Which ones are reset?
1) Silver different evil spirits, all reset
2) Blue different evil evil spirits Alpha ——
2.1) Alpha consciousness/memory is retained —
2.2) Alpha's body is reset ——
2.3) Alpha blood substance R is retained
— comprehensively Above, the reset mechanism of Alpha and Cage is the same.
3) Omega
-all retained (what is the composition of Omega, it is unknown, it should be closer to Alpha, in order to facilitate understanding, we still compare it to the human brain, In many cases, Omega=consciousness=brain=memory=reset mechanism, why should Omega keep all, because all consciousness should be kept)
(3)
Okay, with the foundation of (1) and (2), let’s solve the only real timeline The remaining question of paragraph I: What happened to the last reset of Cage?
Set the last reset of Cage to the Nth time, then the penultimate time is the N-1th time.
Before answering this question, let’s make an assumption. If the screenwriter wants to minimize the audience’s doubts, he will write: Write the N-1th reset of the Cage as the last time. This N-1th occurs when the Cage is Before blood transfusion. After Cage's blood transfusion, he went to kill Omega with Rita. In the Louvre, after the soy sauce died, Rita died with him. Cage and Omega died together. No one was able to reset again, but humans were saved and the film ended. Of course everyone knows that it is impossible to write like this.
In order to reunite the male and female protagonists, the screenwriter asked Cage to obtain the reset ability for the second time underwater and immediately reset. The male and female protagonists were resurrected and reunited, but left a suspicious logical loophole: Why didn't Omega resurrect during reset?
In fact, the setting of this "hole" is very tricky. On the one hand, it is not obvious, and it appears at the end of the film and does not disturb the satisfaction of the audience. On the contrary, it allows the audience to continue the discussion after they walk out of the movie theater. The film, and as the discussion continues, they will find that this is not a loophole.
Okay, why isn't it a loophole?
Let’s look at the known facts:
1. This reset was also initiated by Omega.
2. Omega was initiated without Alpha death.
3. Omega was initiated with damage to itself (presumably from all aspects, It was the damage caused by the grenade explosion that triggered the reset)
4. This time the R point of reset is different from waking up on the Cage airport, but waking up on the Cage helicopter (for distinction, we mark these two points as "airport R point" "And "Helicopter R point")
5. Omega died at about the same time as Cage woke up, and produced a surge of energy, which was observed by humans, and the evil spirit also completely retreated.
6. Cage still has R memories after reset, and no one else has R memories (Rita's R memories in Verdun are not counted). More precisely, Cage still has "every period when the airport wakes up on June 6 and after "R memory" (in addition, the audience also has R memory, and the memory of the audience and the protagonist keeps growing simultaneously)
Well, let's make a reasonable guess:
reset itself is a process, in other words, a reset takes a short period of time, we call this A short period of time is "R time",
so in the last reset, the relationship between the monster brain Omega, grenade, and R time can be divided into: (Cage, Rita, let them forget about it first)
Situation (1): Omega started the reset before the grenade exploded. When the R time is complete, the grenade has not exploded. Omega resets to the helicopter R point intact, but this time, it will remember that it was almost killed-this kind of situation is impossible. Because there is no Alpha death, Omega can only start the reset
situation with the help of the self-damage caused by the grenade explosion (2): Omega starts the reset due to the grenade explosion, but before the R time is completed, Omega died, making R time unable to continue. Reset is canceled halfway through, and Omega, Cage, and Rita die permanently-this is a possible situation. If the film ends underwater, then this is the
situation (3): Omega starts reset due to a grenade explosion , When R is completed, Omega is still not dead, reset is completed-this is what actually happened in the film, let's interpret this situation
in detail: in paragraph (2) we have already demonstrated: in reset, Omega is all reserved.
Okay, what is the reservation? To keep is to replace.
In the reset of Cage (Rita), the R substance in consciousness and blood is retained, so the original Cage is replaced at these two levels. After Class B Cage replaced Class A Cage, Class B Cage became the only Cage, and Class A Cage disappeared forever. It can be likened to a Category A Cage walking on the road, and suddenly a hand of God stretched out to take the Category A Cage away from the road, throw it away, and place the Category B Cage in the original position of the Category A Cage. Cage like Cage continues to move forward (of course this time he will remember where there is a pit in front of him).
Well, Omega is all retained, so does the new Omega replace the old Omega? Of course replace.
The new Omega has Alzheimer's. After reset, will the Alzheimer's Omega replace the young and smart Omega? replace.
The new Omega is dying by the explosion. After reset, will the dying Omega replace the vigorous Omega? replace.
The new Omega is dead. After the reset (assuming that the death of the Omega does not affect the completion of the reset), does the dead Omega replace the live Omega? replace.
In summary, in scenario (3), whether Omega was dying or killed, in short, the Omega that was bombed replaced the Omega that was not bombed. This replacement occurred at point R of the helicopter, Cage, Rita, and The reset of the entire world also occurs at point R of the helicopter.
Why this reset is to return to the helicopter R point instead of the airport R point? There are many possible reasons, but they are not important. We know that the Louvre Brain Slaughter took place from the middle of the night of June 6 to the early morning of June 7. The airport R point was around the afternoon of June 6, and the helicopter R point was around the morning of June 6. Maybe Omega felt that the airport R point was too close to avoid danger. Moreover, it was not the death of "Xiao Ming" that triggered this reset, but Omega's own damage, so the R point will probably be different.
After the helicopter R point, the bombed Omega soon died, generating a surge of energy.
Okay, after talking about Omega, what about the rest of the monster in this reset? Same as before:
1) Silver different evil spirits, all reset
2) Blue different evil evil spirits Alpha-
2.1) Alpha's consciousness/memory is preserved (all Alpha will remember that their boss was bombed, of course, if they lose Omega, they will probably die with them However, the silver monsters who are muscles may continue to survive. Monsters without brains become plant monsters like vegetatives.)
——2.2) Alpha's body is reset
——2.3) Alpha's R substance in blood is retained. After
talking about Alpha , We can talk about Cage, because in scenario (3), there are still two types:
scenario (3.1): Omega starts reset due to a grenade explosion. When R is completed, Cage is still not contaminated with Alpha blood. After reset is completed, Cage is reset. Return to point R of the helicopter. Okay, how cruel is this situation? Because Cage is just an ordinary human at this time, his consciousness will not be retained. Like Rita, he will not remember the Louvre operation at all, and he is even worse than Rita, because he will not be left with a R memory. Helicopter The Class A Cage on board will remain in the state of Class A Cage without moving, and Cage will not go to Rita after getting off the plane.
Situation (3.2): Omega started reset due to a grenade explosion. Before the R time was completed, the Alpha blood flowing around in the water covered Cage's body, and Cage became an Alpha again. After the reset was completed, Cage was reset back to the helicopter R point. Like other Alphas, Cage retains all memories.
——That’s why, before resetting, the director had to take two close-up shots of Alpha blood entwined on Cage's body. The resurrection is not important. The important thing is that he remembers her after the resurrection.
Well, don't forget, Cage, as Alpha, besides preserving consciousness, what else is retained? Yes, it also retains the R substance in the blood. That's why, we call the Cage at this time the Category E Cage.
At the beginning of this article, in the basic common sense part, we talked about: b. Humans with R energy also have R energy blood. The way to lose R energy is R energy blood flow
. People with R energy also have R energy blood, but , A person with R energy may not have R energy-in the case of Omega's death, there will be no R energy.
Therefore, the cage that resets the helicopter to point R should generally belong to category C: there is no R ability and R memory, but we separately classify him as category E because his "no R ability" is more accurately called "R ability". Sleeping." If a new meteorite brings a new Omega to the earth one day in the future, then the Cage with R energy blood flowing on the body will awaken the R energy in the body and change from type E back to type B.
At this point, Cage’s last reset has been explained clearly, and the major difficulties of the film have also been basically explained.
Below, explain a few common difficulties:
1. How many resets did the monster brain Omega complete? (We only count the resets that are truly effective and always inscribed on the real timeline)
Before the only real timeline of A, that is, 2 months ago, Omega completed n resets, and each time it avoided a failure and foreseen it. A human future action;
in B, some day before March, Omega completed another reset, this reset allowed it to make a decision: let humans win at Verdun;
in C, Rita completed her only valid time Reset means that Omega also completed once
in G. During this time, the war between humans and the evil spirits should not be fierce, and Omega will definitely not be too strong in order to induce the allied forces to launch a beach landing, so the number of resets will not be too many. But because the Russians and the Celestials on the Eastern Front have been advancing, they must rely on resets from time to time to resist, so let’s say that I have completed m resets
in I, and Cage has completed his only effective reset, which means that Omega has also completed it once. After
that, Omega died very quickly. In summary, Omega completed m+n+3 resets in its lifetime.
2. How do humans see the location of Omega?
There are two ways.
1) See through vision. Later, we learned that vision was never real, it was just an illusion created by Omega to find out the pseudo Alpha, but until Cage came back from the dam and told everyone the truth, everyone thought that the Omega position in vision was real. During the Battle of Verdun, Rita once thought that Omega was in Verdun. Later, they went to the hiding spot that Rita saw in Vision and found that Omega had run away. In fact, Omega hadn't run away, but never stayed there. . Rita has never been aware of Omega's phantom tactics, so for a period of time, she and Cage have been eagerly trying to get to the dam.
2) Insert the syringe-shaped device invented by the old scientist into the body, and the eyes will turn black to see. This is the only effective way, but the syringe-like device is only available in the general's place, so Cage and the others have to break into the Whitehall.
3. How does Omega deal with Cage's pseudo Alpha?
First of all, Omega can perceive the existence of pseudo Alpha. Like the Battle of Verdun, there was a brainless Alpha that caused me to reset more than 300 times. You and you can also feel it.
Secondly, dealing with pseudo-Alpha is also very tricky and cannot be killed directly, because killing pseudo-Alpha will also trigger reset and kill again. So I can only lure the pseudo Alpha out, and then drain the R energy blood from the pseudo Alpha before killing it.
4. What happened during the penultimate (N-1th) reset of Cage?
Woke up at the airport, met Chief Farell, met the brothers in Class J, and ran away while doing push-ups. Find Rita and tell Rita the key points of her previous R recall. Rita knows that she is her own. Rita quickly understands that she is going to "re" go to the White Hall with Cage to get the syringe. The two "re" rushed into the Whitehall, successfully got the syringe, successfully avoided the ambush at the door, and drove away. On the way, Cage inserted the syringe into the body for the first time and saw Omega in the Louvre. A mecha fighter intercepted and the two were unconscious. Cage, who was in a coma, was transfused and changed from Category B to Category C. Rita rescued Cage, and Cage told Rita that she had lost her energy. Cage and Rita decided to go to the Louvre to slaughter their brains, but they needed to pull a batch of soy sauce. Cage returned to the airport, and through a speech and Rita's appearance, he successfully persuaded Brother J to join. Cage, Rita, and Class J drove a transport plane to the Louvre. Class J died. Cage and Rita managed to get close to Omega, but there was an Alpha guarding Omega. Rita kissed Cage, and then ran out alone to lead Alpha away, Cage Jumped into the water to kill Omega. Rita was quickly killed by Alpha. Alpha turned around to kill Cage and poked a hole in Cage’s chest, but Cage had already thrown a grenade into Omega and exploded. Omega started reset. Before the reset was completed, Cage was stained with Alpha blood flowing out of Omega's body and became a pseudo Alpha again, and the reset was completed.
5. Are there any other explanations for the last reset of Cage?
Two simpler explanations have been found after discussing with other students:
A. In the known facts, we modified: The Alpha that guarded Omega was affected by a grenade and was blown to death. Therefore, Omega is the same as before, because Alpha’s death triggers the reset, not because of his own damage. Other than that, the rest is the same as the previous explanation. Before the reset is completed, Alpha’s blood covers the Cage and makes him become A pseudo Alpha
B. In the known facts, we modify: It is not Omega that initiates this reset, but a more advanced existence, which we call "Big Omega". After the small Omega was killed, its blood was soaked in the Cage, causing the big Omega to misjudge the Cage as the small Omega. The misjudgment process was the same as the one when the Cage was misjudged as the Alpha, so the big Omega launched a reset, and the Cage was Resurrected as a pseudo-Omega and retained consciousness.
6. When the cage is still Type B, what happens if another Alpha in a certain place dies?
This situation is not mentioned in the film, but it is not difficult to speculate.
Let’s suppose that Cage has been reset for the 110th time. At this time, he was being punished for push-ups with Class J at the airport and waiting for an opportunity to escape. Suddenly, an Alpha named "Little Red" on the Eastern Front was caught by a sniper from the sky. Killed. Okay, what will happen?
First of all, Omega must reset, and Cage will go through the reset together, but the R point that resets back this time is probably not the airport R point, because for Xiaohong, this R point is too close, it may be another one on June 5th R point. So the time before R on June 5 was cleared, and Cage suddenly replaced himself at R on June 5. Of course, he kept all his memories. Let's assume that Cage is taking a bath at R on June 5, so for Cage, he was still doing push-ups in the first second, and then found himself sitting in the tub the next second. Then, after thinking, Cage will find out, oh, maybe another Alpha is dead.
7. After the film is over, besides Cage, will there be other people with R energy?
Probably it will. Why?
First of all, it will not be by killing Alpha. On the one hand, after Omega dies, Alpha will soon die or run away. On the other hand, kill Alpha, which has a low probability of appearance. Covering the whole body... The only two times are the probability of a meteorite hitting the earth. And this time, the person who was covered (mostly seriously injured) can no longer be resurrected through reset, he can only survive and survive through modern medicine.
Secondly, a more reliable method is to catch a living Alpha, and then do research to extract its blood. The possibility is also extremely low, because the human government and the military do not believe in the special value of Alpha blood (and with the death of Omega, this special value has temporarily expired), so they will not invest in this research, even if someone invests, The probability of catching a living Alpha...
Once again, it has been proven impossible to let Cage spread through blood or sexual intercourse.
So, where is the greatest possibility?
That's right, after Cage and Rita fell in love, after getting married, in the near future, they gave birth to a child.
Below, I will add and sort out some of the questions in the comment area:
8. Regarding the last reset of Omega, is it possible: This main server with time control function always exists in the time flow, so at any point in time Destroying the main server... means that the main server is completely eliminated? (Danver) It
is doubtful whether Omega is "permanent." The explanation I thought of at the beginning is also the same. Omega exists in the past, present, and future at the same time. To eliminate it at any point in time is to completely eliminate it.
But there are several problems with this hypothesis. 1. Can the so-called "constant existence" and "ordinary existence" interact? How to interact? This is too philosophical, at least I can’t understand it; 2. Since it exists in the future at the same time, Omega does not need to rely on reset to detect the future in disguise, because the permanent existence is omniscient; 3. Since it exists in the past at the same time, then Omega When I was killed, the Omega at every point in the past should have died at the same time. Omega disappeared completely. It never existed. Then there is no way to talk about the whole war, and there is no way to talk about the reset mechanism...
So I I can only give up this hypothesis, so the dead Omega is reset to replace the living Omega is the only explanation I have found so far
9. Cage has been back so many times, logically he should think: ready to reset at any time, whether by suicide or by others People are killed in case they lose this ability? (Phoebe)
Yes, for example, if there is a poison in the teeth, if you lose consciousness and cannot control the bite, you will automatically kill yourself by taking drugs.
It can only be said that the protagonist did not think well.
From the screenwriter’s point of view, the reset ability was cancelled before the Louvre action (climax) in order to make the climax have real "life/death value". In the climax scene, the human and the protagonist Whether the "life/death value" can finally complete the conversion from negative to positive, this will arouse the audience's expectations and increase the sense of tension. If you always have the ability to reset, there will be no real "life/death value", the audience thought, he must not die anyway! Expectation and tension are beyond talk.
At the end of the climax scene, we found that the human "life/death value" has completed the conversion from negative to positive (from death to life), while the protagonist's "life/death value" is from positive to negative (from life). To death).
Of course, in order to reunite, in the next scene, the protagonist once again reversed his "life/death value" and resurrected from the dead.
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