It is said that the relationship between "Edge of Tomorrow" and the landing of Normandy cannot be reached, but you will understand that after watching the movie, in fact, the director and Uncle Tom pay tribute to the landing of Normandy repeatedly in the film-the film is adapted from a Japanese novel\comic "Killing" "Reincarnation", the main background is humans fighting monsters in the future world. The protagonist has gained the ability to resurrect from the dead by accidentally hitting, and at the same time discovering that every resurrection is a repetition of the previous event, as if he was trapped in the death of time. It’s the same in the loop, and the story unfolds... It should be said that this kind of sci-fi setting of the time loop is not uncommon. There have been jewels such as "Groundhog Day" and "Twelve One Minute" in film history, but "Edge of Tomorrow" is not Curious. However, this sci-fi setting is nothing more than a gimmick. The film is still an out-and-out fast-paced action blockbuster-director Doug Liman has directed action films such as "The Bourne", "The Smiths" and other action films, "Edge of Tomorrow" "Also maintained his usual hot style.
In the original "Rebirth of Killing", the last base for humans to fight against monsters is the Japanese archipelago, because here is the world's most developed robotics industry. The human resistance army wears a machine shell and transforms into a mecha warrior to fight against monsters. In "Edge of Tomorrow", the mecha warrior changed from Yamato Masada to American handsome uncle, and the main battlefield was also placed in Western Europe. The battle that the protagonist participated in was landing on the beaches of France by airborne, and then attacking the hinterland of Europe-obviously This is exactly the same as the Normandy landing, and the munitions piled up at Heathrow Airport before the war and the U.S. soldiers gathered in the brook are undoubtedly coincident with the glorious history of the U.S. military 70 years ago: Uncle Tom was also on the beach. During the landing operations, the battle continued to come back to life and fell into an endless cycle of time. So, the history of the Normandy landing was repeated in the film, and the Japanese spirit of defense in the original work has since been perfectly replaced by Great Americanism.
Many Hollywood sci-fi works are full of great Americanism, and they are often used to compliment their historical pride. The history of the United States is not long, and sci-fi movies that seem to be "future-oriented" actually bear a lot of condensed American historical collectives. Unconscious function. For example, in the film and television works such as "Star Trek" and "Stargate", the history of American colonial founding has been repeated again and again; and in "Edge of Tomorrow", we almost saw a mecha coat The Second World War-of course, is mainly the second European battlefield in which the US military "leads". In fact, "Edge of Tomorrow" also made up the background of a world war. From time to time, it also explained the progress of Chinese and Russian troops on the battlefield of Eurasia through lines. Dominated by the United States, China, and Russia (this seems to be in line with the current world trend). However, the US military in the film did not go directly to the battle, but became the leader of the United Resistance Force (UDF), which is basically consistent with the history of World War II-the Soviet Red Army from the east, the US-led Allied forces from Normandy, two routes The pincer finally eliminated the Nazis.
Because he was inadvertently given the ability to restart time by alien monsters, Uncle Tom kept repeating the Normandy landing through death in the film, until he finally found a solution, and the wise and martial arts scored in Germany and France, and finally won After the victory of this war-behind the entertainment veil of sci-fi action, "Edge of Tomorrow" obviously hides a face of Great Americanism. Hollywood has a strong cultural throughput capacity, and the cultural resources of the world can be used for it, but the products exported after being processed and shaped by it will surely raise the banner of Great Americanism.
As for the so-called time cycle, it is of course impossible to make sense in physics-quantum mechanics theory cannot be made sense in the world of classical physics, and for characters, amnestics has become the most important sensational weapon, and its development is almost " The routine of "Fifty First Love", but "Edge of Tomorrow" has a taste of the emotional scene, and the final part of the Jedi counterattack is also lacking in suspense. The audience's emotional investment and worries about the fate of the characters are not fully mobilized, which makes the whole film It's a pity to present the movie-watching experience of driving high and walking low.
(Published in "China News Weekly" 2014, issue 22)
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