*Author's note/s: May contain spoilers.
Another
movie review! God, I'm not really good at this kind of writing. It's
really difficult to write a movie review without exposing some spoilers
or without giving the exciting points of the movie. Now I know how hard
it is for writers to write these kind of stuff. Today's the fourth day
of the new year 2016 but I still haven't change. I'm still good at
procrastination (lol). This would be the last movie review for the term
(and tomorrow's the deadline so I said I'm good at procrastination) and
hopefully, I would give more reviews of movies or series (most likely
anime) I watched and games I finished. Did I make you excited? Haha!
As usual, it was a
Friday and Friday means Film showing in EEP. We watched the movie Edge
of Tomorrow starring the Mission Impossible lead star, Tom Cruise, and
the assistant Emily of The Devil Wears Prada, Emily Blunt. The movie's
catchphrase is "Live. Die. Repeat" as I have seen in our professor's DVD
case. I was like, "Homahgahd what does that mean? It's not even the
fantasy type. It's Sci-Fi and that's the catchphrase? Interesting." And
that made my eyes glued to the movie.
It's
about an "alien" invasion that spread like wildfire in the world. These
creatures are invulnerable for humankind don't know their weakness
until the military has developed a machine unit that can help the
military to defeat these creatures. The military's public relations
officer Major William Cage (Tom Cruise) is called by a superior of England to take over the battle by the beach at France but he refuses
and blackmails him. So Cage is arrested for it and by the time he
opened his eyes, he's at the Heathrow operating base and he discovers
that he is framed to be a deserter, demoted to private and tasked to fight
on the battlefield though he doesn't have any combat experience. Now he's on the battlefield equipped with the military machine unit (they look like cyborgs with those pieces of machine on). Since he doesn't have combat experience, he died after "exploring" how to fight. But it's actually a dream. Then it happened again and again until he met Rita Vrataski, the best and most popular combatant who brought victory at the Verdun battle. Rita said he has the power to reset the day whenever he reaches his death. 
Look at that fierce dame with firm muscles and flexible joints. *insert men whistling* Gorgeous.
Now this is an image of the alien creature. Looks like a monster in a game.
Anyway, for me, the movie is a mix of seriousness and comedy. Well, it's a pretty serious action sci-fi movie but here are points that make it hilarious. Would you like to die again and again because you had an injury and you need to start over again? This nearly endless cycle reminds me of my kind of cheating whenever I play games (card games, action combat third-person, RPG, turn-based, point-click, almost all). If I feel like I'll have a game over text, I'll turn off the gadget, turn it on and play from the save point :D
What if I have that kind of power to reset the day but the difference is that I can reset it whenever I committed a mistake on my actions like household chores or the everyday life decisions? That would be nice but the excitement of living with the uncertain future won't be there anymore, and that would be boring and at the same time, it would teach me nothing.
The lesson of the movie in my view is, just as said in the movie, "we are the masters of our own fate" or something like that (I barely remember). We determine the flow of our lives just like how interactive visual novel games go in which we pick a choice and those choices affect the storyline of the game. And it's the same with our lives in the real perspective.
Photo credit(s):
Edge of Tomorrow poster - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge_of_Tomorrow_(film)
Rita Vrataski (Emily Blunt) - http://www.movieroomreviews.com/edge-tomorrow/glance-cast-edge-tomorrow-273084
Alien creature Mimic - https://cdn0.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/655118/edge.0.jpg
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