1. Fully narrated
2. The protagonist has memories of the first time, omitting trivial details, developing faster, but less than the first time, but the protagonist changed the "full metal bitch" Destiny revealed a new piece of information. When we woke up again, we knew the meaning of the "full metal bitch" on the car.
3. The protagonist told the officer about his predictions about the future. Paragraph, he saved the fat man, he died
4. A brief wake-up shot, immediately cut to the picture of him landing on the beach, successfully rescued the fat man, but was killed by a car, a picture of a fireball
5, a Pan the camera and immediately reproduce the protagonist, dodge the car, save the woman, and a new message appears: the woman says to find her after she wakes up.
6. New action, being run over by a car
7. Successfully rolled over the car, met a woman, was introduced to the function of the variant, the principle of time reset, the woman can no longer regenerate, the protagonist is injured in practice, the woman beats him to death, when When the "full metal bitch" appeared, it seemed to have a new meaning.
8. Only two scenes were repeated: the officer asked the soldier to push up again, explained to the woman, and immediately went to training
. Supernatural powers to women, death
10, training, squashed
11, all over again
12, all over again
13, all over again
14, all over again
15, "I'm not hurt"
16, trash, shot (shorter)
17, trash , shot (shorter)
18, shot
19, omega picture,
20, "how far did I go last time"
21, plot, foreground enters a monster, woman dies
22, dies
23, dies
24, dies
25. Dead, slow moving shots
26. Escape, depression, death on the bridge
27. New development, revealed repetitions that were not filmed in the house, women must die
28. Don't meet women, the background music is amplified throughout the whole process, no omega was found
29. Get the ultimate Object, dead
30, blood loss, last chance, kill omega
31, wake up on the plane, before the battle, omega is dead, see a woman, end.
The "parallel universe" theory is applied to the film to form a special non-linear narrative, but the original theory has been transformed to suit the film narrative. For example, in "Lola Run", in the second time, Lola already knew the result of the first time (in the parallel universe theory, each universe does not know each other). So Dabo calls this narrative a "multi-draft narrative": the latter one is a revision of the previous one, and the duration will be shorter.
But "Edge of Tomorrow" has transformed the "multi-draft narrative" (it should not be original). The film has a total of 31 rebirths (not counting the indefinite number of rebirths revealed by the characters through language), and the duration of each time has different characteristics of the traditional "multi-draft narrative":
1. Flexibility: to the fifth time Gets very short, and a pan immediately starts a new time; by the 7th, it gets longer, developing another clue, revealing more information.
2. Sense of rhythm: From 11 to 14, Cruise's training scene is constantly dying and coming back again. The time of each paragraph is very short enough, which can be compared to the "collective editing" of the breakfast paragraph of "Citizen Kane", cutting the same events at different times in one time, speeding up the narrative and forming a sense of rhythm. From 8 to 25, the "draft" is very dense and fast-paced. At 25 a slow-moving shot slows the tempo, after which the "draft" becomes longer. The above can be counted as the "confrontation" phase of the film. By the 30th time, Cruise lost too much blood and could no longer be reborn, and the plot entered the "final" stage, which lasted about half an hour this time. These show that "Edge of Tomorrow" has used the length of each "draft" of the "multi-draft narrative" to serve the creation of a three-stage rhythm.
In 1987, "Blind Fight" created the "multi-draft narrative" mother, and by 2014's "Edge of Tomorrow", filmmakers have mastered the "multi-draft narrative" and formed a variety of variants. In addition to the narrative feature of "time reset", "Edge of Tomorrow" has all the genre elements that classical Hollywood should have. It can be seen that the elasticity of the Hollywood continuity system is so great that it can absorb various pioneer forms, deform and transform them, and finally combine them into a standard industrial product.
View more about Edge of Tomorrow reviews
