About the movie and the original book and the last Reset

The movie basically retains most of the elements of the original novel, and can see many shadows of the original novel, such as why the operating system switches between English and Japanese, including the badge on the rack, the heroine's titanium alloy machete, etc. , and even the supporting actions that the heroine does when she comes on stage. Anyone who has read the original novel will smile slightly. This is an element in the novel. But the movie version abandoned an important setting of the novel version, that is, the Reset skill will not be lost, which also led to the difference between the final ending of the movie version and the novel version.

In the novel version, both male and female protagonists have the Reset skill at the same time, which leads to the fact that if two people exist at the same time, it will lead to reset to the state before the battle again, which eventually leads to the final battle between the two, which leads to a tragedy. This is also the charm of the novel. Two people who help each other and those who love each other eventually have to confront each other. The rest of the people live with sad memories. This is also in a dialogue of the heroine in the movie version. reflect. However, for the Hollywood-style happy ending, the movie version deliberately avoided this paradox, and designed the Reset ability to be lost with the loss of blood. The appearance of the scene of the protagonist confrontation.

Regarding the last Reset, the footage in the movie is very obvious, Omega's blood surrounds the male protagonist, and with the death of the male protagonist, another Reset is carried out. So I think that the last reset was actually caused by the male protagonist, and the explosion of Omega can be considered as the reason that Omega itself is a creature that exists in the time-space continuum and can span time, and it is actually the same creature after the reset. , thus bringing the explosion to after the reset, or that the creature had an explosion whenever it ever existed.

As for the reset time, I think it is related to the amount of blood absorbed. When I saw the doctor asked when the protagonist died, it means that the reset time is not fixed, and a certain amount of Alpha is absorbed. The blood can then have the ability to reset. It may be that the greater the absorption, the longer the reset time. The large amount of blood in the final shot can explain the length of the reset time.

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